Wikitech-l March 2017

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WMF software dev internship opening for content translation UI
by Pine W 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

For anyone who's looking for a software dev internship: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/634650 This is advertised as a 20 hours per week position. Pine

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2017-03-22 Scrum of Scrums notes
by Grace Gellerman 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

= 2017-03-22= contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering == Call outs == * CodeMirror extension (for syntax highlighting) needs security review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108687 == Product == === Reading === ====Android==== * Last week: ** Many miscellaneous UI enhancements for better offline support ** New saved page cache implementation still in progress T156917 * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ): ** Continue improving the offline experience ** Continue 2.5.x release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2667/ ==== iOS ==== * Last Week ** 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/ *** Removed places from 5.4 so that updates can be made in response to user feedback *** Shipped release candidate for 5.4 * This week ** Release 5.4 *** Login enhancements *** Two factor auth *** Bug fixes ** 5.4.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/ *** Any fixes for 5.4 required after release *** JS consolidation ** 5.5 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/ *** Places updates in response to user feedback ====Reading Infrastructure==== * TemplateStyles: ** CSS sanitizer library https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:css-sanitizer ** RfC closed, discussing implementation plans for deduplicating <style> tags in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160563 * PageViewInfo: in production ** https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info ** https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=pageviews&… ** https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&formatversion=2… |extracts|pageterms|pageimages|pageprops|revisions&explaintext=&exchars=512&wbptterms=description&piprop=thumbnail&pithumbsize=320 * ORES: ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/336963/ (hooks + data attributes for change list items) *waiting for +2* * Mobile Content Service: ** deployed a couple of bug fixes for mobile-sections endpoint ** adding more languages to TFA (Today's Featured Article) in aggregated feed ==== Multimedia ==== * No blocking/blockers * Deployment work for Extension:3d stalled on deployment work for 3d2png. We're working through that now, and hopefully it won't take too long. * Obviously we're in a different section this week. Team is moving. More to come. ==== Web ==== * Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-94/ * Last week: ** Page Previews tech debt clean-up and bug fixes ** Print styles * This week: ** Reading Web off-site === Community Tech === * LoginNotify high-priority, aiming for an early April release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11838 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160094 * XTools going very well, "Articleinfo" and "Top Edits" working https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-dev/ ** Now working on the edit counter https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160481 * Cookie blocks all merged and on next week's deploy train, Tuesday we will test on Testwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158129 * Popular pages bot now includes pageviews of all redirects to each page in the WikiProject https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160201 * Editing team graciously tested a solution to have CodeMirror (syntax highlighting) work in new wikitext editor, seems promising so we will test further https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161052 ** Blocker: Ready to move forward with adding it to old wikitext editor, but needs security review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108687 === Editing === ==== UI Standardization ==== * This week ** Style guide work on components. Both technical and content-wise https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimediaui_style_guide/ ** Wikimedia UI/OOjs UI icon fundamentals: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135081, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141801and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139351 * Updates ** OOjs UI: *** Release of v0.20.0 (postponed from last week, due to Jenkins trouble) **** Huge improvement on/resolving almost entirely `em` sizing based interface issues across browsers **** Also including 11 UI touching patches (icon deprecations, removed icon flags, color amendments, vertical rhythm) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md ==== Language ==== * OOjs migration for ContentTranslation continue. * Team will ask Services help in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107914 (if needed) ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked * Blocking * Updates ** RC Filters deployed to test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org. Going to Portuguese and Polish on Tuesday. *** RC Filters GuidedTour *** Add ORES filters to new RCFilters *** Allow the ORES extension features to be 'on' by default *** RCFilters UI: Add a 'what's this?' link to filter groups *** More RC Filters UI improvements. E.g. **** Rework conflicts to be objects in filter or group context **** Create tooltips for filter states ==== Parsing ==== * Linter now deployed on small wikis; Bugs being fixed based on feedback / testing; Likely deployed to medium wikis this week * Planning rollout of ParserMigration extension to let editors compare Tidy output with its replacement (RemexHTML). * Based on visual diff testing of a language variants patch in core ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/333997/ ), we have identified some pages (primarily chemical element pages like enwiki:Isavuconazole and others on multiple wikis that use language variant markup that is being affected by this patch. We are thinking of updating the markup on these pages to nowiki the "-{" and "-}" that might be encountered there. Doing a dump grep to find these == Technology == === Analytics === * finished productionizing edit reconstruction jobs, Data Lake tables in Hive now have a "snapshot" partition column and will be updated regularly * not urgent but blocked on people to review mediawiki-config and mediawiki-extensions changes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/344007/, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/342913/, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/336446/. Especially 342913, which solves errors in production on every edit. Some people seem to review these in their own time, but it would be nice to have organizational support, or should we get +2 rights on our team and do it? ** MF: Deployers have +2 for mediawiki-config. You may want to request at least one person on your team to become a deployer, for this and other reasons (e.g. running scripts and mwrepl in production). * ongoing: legacy pagecount metrics being added to AQS, will be queryable via the API soon * ongoing: wikistats 2.0 prototype with Vue, in a little over a week we are very comfortable with the framework, so great learning curve as advertised === Security === * Reviews: * 2FA login on iOS App * MediaWiki 1.28.1/1.27.2/1.23.16 nearly ready for release === Technical Operations === * Blocked * Blocking * Updates ** Special:Allpages outage incident report https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170320-Special… ** Labs: nfs-exportd not setting correct permissions on exports (resolved with patch) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160818 ** Adjusting Prometheus retention caused missing data https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160677 ** Mark on parental leave === Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** Node.js kafka driver upgraded for all services using kafka (Change-Prop, Trending, EventStreams) ** Cassandra client encryption enabled in RESTBase Cassandra cluster: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111113 ** Thanks to discovery maps updated to node 6 and the node migration is now complete === Discovery === * No blockers * All searches now served from ElastitcSearch 5.1.2. eqiad cluster upgrade soon. * Completion suggester temporarily disabled to accommodate a bugfilx for title length, will be reeenabled soon (probably today). * Second A/B test for displaying sister wiki results in search launched ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-March/087800.html) * Working on adding search to Special:Undelete ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109561) * Working on Wikidata search * Various updates to portal code & stats, see weekly for detals ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-03-13) === Fundraising Tech === * No external blockers * Blocking: DonationInterface vendor lib double-inclusion https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159099 ** Sounds like Reedy doesn't consider it high priority, mostly just annoying for IDEs to have two versions of classes * DonationInterface ** More tech debt work https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160385 * CentralNotice ** Banner Sequencing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144453 ** Reducing cache purges for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954 * CiviCRM ** Finishing up the address fixes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158268 ** Investigating importing 3rd party bulkmailer data * Opsy ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159289 ** Trying to get our last (and most complicated) Precise box migrated to Jessie ** Writing some wrapper scripts to run jobs using cron instead of via Jenkins *** Thanks for the interest and comments from releng!

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Translate, BlueSpiceFoundation, UserGroups extensions maintainers/devs
by zppix e 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

I couldn't think of a better way of notifying the devs for the aforementioned extensions, but if I could have you guys take attention to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160539 I'd be grateful! Thanks, Zppix WMF Volunteer Developer ZppixBot Maintainer Quarrybot-Enwiki Maintainer enwp.org/User:Zppix Sent from my iPhone

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Letting configurations override namespace registration of extensions
by Amir Tafreshi 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hey, There is a bug (or a feature, depends on how you see it) in mediawiki extension namespace registration [1]. If an extension registers a namespace, there is no way to override that. It can be problematic in cases when there is a conflict of IDs between two installed extensions or one extension and custom-defined namespaces. We want to change that but there are several approaches and each of them has benefits and issues: One (suggested by me) is to make IDs of namespaces registered by extension configurable using LocalSettings.php. This allows us to easily "move" a namespace without needing to touch other configurations related to that namespace but it also adds a global variable and also can't handle conflict in names of namespaces. Another approach (suggested by legoktm) is to skip registering a namespace from extensions when the namespace constant is already defined. This doesn't have problems that the first approach has but you need to duplicate the configuration when there is a conflict. Please contribute at the discussion and add your comments/concerns. Also feel free to suggest a new approach. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160462 Best -- Amir Sarabadani Tafreshi Software Engineer (contractor) ------------------------------------- Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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March 2017 CREDIT showcase video and notes posted
by Adam Baso 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hello! The CREDIT showcase video and notes from earlier this month have been posted. Enjoy! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase/2017-03-01 Here's what was covered: * Stephen Niedzielski, localized Android app independent of system language * Gergő Tisza, Developer Wishlist * Gergő Tisza, PsySH (much of the credit is due to Antoine Musso who could not participate) * Jan Drewniak - 'Explore Similar' feature for search results -Adam

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GSOC'17/Outreachy'14: Mentor needed for software design and code review guidance
by Srishti Sethi 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

There are a few prospective students interested in working on the Single Image Batch Upload <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138464> project. We've recruited two mentors already @basvb and @capt_swing (on Phabricator), but we still need a mentor who could provide software design guidance and help with the code review process. See comments here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138464#3098154 Anyone willing to offer help? Thank you!! -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)

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Introduction
by Egbe Eugene 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi all, I am Egbe Eugene. I come from Cameroon and i am quite new to the movement as a developer. My thought towards contributing to the community is driven by the impact which the foundation could bring to my country and Africa and also what i will do in order that the movement be heard around the ends of my country. I will also wish to enhance my engineering skills while contributing to the movement by working on the foundation's projects. Hope to get more help to get started soonest. Thanks EEA

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[BREAKING CHANGE] Internet Explorer 9 will be JavaScript-less starting April 2017
by Krinkle 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Hi all, Starting in April 2017, MediaWiki will end Grade A support for browsers that do not implement ES5 JavaScript. [1] This affects Internet Explorer 9 users and others using very old mobile browsers. [2] Users with these browsers will still be able to browse and contribute to the projects. Enhanced features will become unavailable. For example, the enhanced edit toolbar will not appear, and notification buttons will take you to a page rather than open a pop-out. This change will affect roughly 0.59% of page views to Wikimedia wikis (as of February 2017 [2]). Internet Explorer 9 (0.27%), mobile users on iOS 4 (Mobile Safari 5 — 0.02% of traffic), and Android 2 (0.1%). For comparison, 0.3% of traffic comes from Internet Explorer 8 (JavaScript-less since January 2016). Providing JavaScript for IE 9 and other ES3 browsers adds a significant maintenance burden. It also hinders site speed for all users. Microsoft ended its official support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10 in January 2016. [4] Users unable to upgrade from IE 9 or Android 2 will have a faster experience going forward, based on well-tested and more stable code. This change will land in the development branch used on all Wikimedia wikis this April, to be released as part of MediaWiki 1.29 around May 2017. Please help carry this message into your communities. (Tech News has announced this change as well) Yours, -- Timo For details about the JavaScript-less experience, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility [1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=use-strict Browser support for ES5 (strict) [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128115#3066522 Breakdown of Wikimedia page views from pre-ES5 browsers [3] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-browser/b… (Note: Filter date to last 2-3 months only!) [4] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/12/microsoft-ends-support-for-ie8-ie9-ie10-a…

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Special:AllPages (temporarily) disabled on all wikis
by Sam Reed 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Due to an outage on enwiki earlier today caused by Special:AllPages, it has temporarily been disabled on all wikis pending further investigation. To this extent a public tracking task [1] has been created, and updates will be put there to keep people in the loop. Proper incident should appear on Wikitech at a later date, after the problem has been resolved. Sam [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160916

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Fantastic MediaWikis - Track at Wikimedia Hackathon - CfP
by Markus Glaser 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Hello everyone, "Fantastic MediaWikis and How to Maintain Them" is a one-day conference track designed for people who work with the open source software MediaWiki in their organisation, company or business [1]. The conference track is curated by the MediaWiki Stakeholders Group and hosted by Wikimedia Austria. The track is part of Wikimedia's biggest annual tech-event, the Wikimedia Hackathon [2]: For three days each year, about 200 developers come together to improve MediaWiki. Among the participants are coders from the Wikimedia Foundation as well as volunteers from all over the world. We're using this opportunity to connect the people who work with MediaWiki in their enterprise, company, or organisation to the people who actually develop the code. We invite all MediaWiki stakeholders - power-users, maintainers, and service providers, who have a professional or semi-professional interest in the software - to join us for a day full of MediaWiki knowledge and networking! This is a call for participation. We are specifically looking for contributions of your experience in running MediaWikis. These include but are not confined to: * Use Cases. Tell us how and why you use MediaWiki in a specific area or to solve a specific problem. * Best Practices. Talk about the most effective way you have found to use particular MediaWiki features. * Enhancements. Have you improved MediaWiki to fit your needs? Show us your solution. * Challenges. How can we all add to MediaWiki functionality? Do you have specific ideas you want to collaborate on? Share your experience and submit a presentation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/Fantastic_Me… Important dates: * 20th March 2017: Call for Participation opens * 5th April 2017: Submission deadline * 10th April 2017: Notification of acceptance * 19th - 21st May 2017: Vienna Hackathon We are looking forward to your submissions! Best, Markus (User:Mglaser) MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group [1] https://www.wikimedia.at/hackathon/fantastic-mediawikis/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017

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