Wikitech-l April 2017

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Issue loading JS with ResourceLoader but not with addScript
by James Montalvo 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

I'm having an issue with getting ResourceLoader to properly load the Masonry library [1]. This issue was not present on MW 1.25 but is on MW 1.27. If I do the following: $out->addModules( 'ext.masonrymainpage.libs' ); // or as dependency to base $out->addModules( 'ext.masonrymainpage.base' ); Then I get the following error in my browser: Uncaught Error: Module "jquery" is not loaded. at require (load.php?debug=true&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=ciafJ7Ly:12581) at masonry.pkgd.js?c5dde:29 at masonry.pkgd.js?c5dde:39 require @ load.php?debug=true&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=ciafJ7Ly:12581 (anonymous) @ masonry.pkgd.js?c5dde:29 (anonymous) @ masonry.pkgd.js?c5dde:39 load.php?debug=true&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=ciafJ7Ly:11145 Use of "wgCategories" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. get @ load.php?debug=true&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=ciafJ7Ly:11145 (anonymous) @ load.php?debug=true&lang=en&modules=site&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=680c78b07fb0:273 However, if I load Masonry not from the ext.masonrymainpage.libs module, but instead using OutputPage::addScript() then I have no issues: global $wgServer, $wgExtensionAssetsPath; $scriptURL = "$wgServer/$wgExtensionAssetsPath/MasonryMainPage/masonry.pkgd.js"; $out->addScript( "<script type='text/javascript' src='$scriptURL'></script>" ); $out->addModules( 'ext.masonrymainpage.base' ); Can anyone help me figure out how to do this the right way? Thanks, James [1] https://github.com/desandro/masonry

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REL1_29 approaching, pencils down
by Chad 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Hi, We're coming up on the month of May, which means we'll be working on a 1.29 release! As the initial step, I'd like to create a branch for REL1_29 this week barring any major objections. I'm thinking Thursday evening after we've finished this week's train. Then we'll be in the normal patch master + backport process we all know and love until we do the release (looking at May 25th). -Chad

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The codfw deployment server is Naos
by Riccardo Coccioli 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

= TL;DR - The codfw deployment server is now Naos: naos.codfw.wmnet [1]. Its SSH fingerprints are available at [2]. - Mira is no longer a deployment server. - Naos is also the current active deployment server until May 3rd [3], [4]. - As always, please use the DNS record deployment.eqiad.wmnet to know which deployment server is the active one. = Detailed version: Few days before the datacenter switchover to codfw performed last week [3], [4], with perfect timing, the existing codfw deployment server Mira manifested hardware issues. Being Mira an old server, also out of warranty, a new deployment server in the codfw datacenter was deployed and configured. As a result, from now on, the deployment server for the codfw datacenter is Naos: naos.codfw.wmnet [1]. You can find its SSH fingerprints in [2]. As part of the datacenter switchover procedures [4], also the deployment server was switched to codfw, hence Naos is currently the active deployment server, until the switchback to eqiad as master datacenter, scheduled on May 3rd [3], [4]. The DNS entries for both deployment.eqiad.wmnet and deployment.codfw.wmnet always point to the active deployment server and should be used to verify which one is the active one. As always, a large message of the day (MOTD) is shown to alert people to not use the passive deployment server on login, and it is now shown on both Tin and Mira. I've also updated all the references to Mira that I've found on Wikitech, but please verify if you have any direct reference to it that might need to be updated. Thanks, Riccardo [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Naos [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:SSH_Fingerprints/naos.codfw.wmnet [3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/18/codfw-temporary-editing-pause/ [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter -- Riccardo Coccioli Software Engineer, Technical Operations Wikimedia Foundation

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Presentation Code of Conduct Committee candidates and community review
by Quim Gil 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Following the process described in the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct>, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Technical Collaboration team has selected five candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee and five candidates to become auxiliary members. Here you have their names in alphabetical order. For details about each candidate, please check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee_members Committee member candidates: - Amir Sarabadani (Ladsgroup) - Lucie-Aimée Kaffee (Frimelle) - Nuria Ruiz (NRuiz-WMF) - Sébastien Santoro (Dereckson) - Tony Thomas (01tonythomas) Auxiliary member candidates: - Ariel Glenn (ArielGlenn) - Caroline Becker (Léna) - Florian Schmidt (Florianschmidtwelzow) - Huji - Matanya This list of candidates is subject to a community review period of two weeks starting today. If no major objections are presented about any candidate, they will be appointed in six weeks. You can provide feedback on these candidates, via private email to techconductcandidates(a)wikimedia.org. This feedback will be received by the Community Health <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_health> group handling this process, and will be treated with confidentiality. We want to thank all the people who has considered the possibility to support the Code of Conduct with their participation in this Committee. 77 persons have been contacted during the selection process, counting self-nominations and recommendations. From these, 21 made it to a short list of candidates confirmed and (according to our estimation) a potential good fit for the Committee. Selecting the five candidates for the Committee has been hard, as we have tried to form a diverse group that could work together effectively in the consolidation of the Code of Conduct. Selecting the five auxiliary members has been even harder, and we know that we have left out candidates who could have contributed just as much. Being the first people assuming these roles, we have tended a bit towards more technical profiles with good knowledge of our technical spaces. We believe that future renewals will offer better chances to other profiles (not so technical and/or not so Wikimedia veteran), adding a higher diversity and variety of perspectives to the mix. On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Wikimedia technical community members, > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct > > The review of the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces has been > completed and now it is time to bootstrap its first committee. The > Technical Collaboration team is looking for five candidates to form the > Committee plus five additional auxiliary members. One of them could be you > or someone you know! > > You can propose yourself as a candidate and you can recommend others > *privately* at > techconductcandidates AT wikimedia DOT org > > We want to form a very diverse list of candidates reflecting the variety > of people, activities, and spaces in the Wikimedia technical community. We > are also open to other candidates with experience in the field. Diversity > in the Committee is also a way to promote fairness and independence in > their decisions. This means that no matter who you are, where you come > from, what you work on, or for how long, you are a potential good member of > this Committee. > > The main requirements to join the Committee are a will to foster an open > and welcoming community and a commitment to making participation in > Wikimedia technical projects a respectful and harassment-free experience > for everyone. The committee will handle reports of unacceptable behavior, > will analyze the cases, and will resolve on them according to the Code of > Conduct. The Committee will also handle proposals to amend the Code of > Conduct for the purpose of increasing its efficiency. The term of this > first Committee will be one year. > > Once we have a list of 5 + 5 candidates, we will announce it here for > review. You can learn more about the Committee and its selection process at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee and you can ask > questions in the related Talk page (preferred) or here. > > You can also track the progress of this bootstrapping process at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct# > Bootstrapping_the_Code_of_Conduct_Committee > > PS: We have many technical spaces and reaching to all people potentially > interested is hard! Please help spreading this call. > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fair use image indicated as free use?
by Fako Berkers 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

Hi all, Thanks for the feedback on my question. I see that the image got a different template assigned to it and now the API response is fine. I'll spread the news about that. I have one follow up question. When an image didn't get the right template/license assigned. Is there a tool/bot that people can use to correct these mistakes? For instance can a bot remove images where they aren't supposed to be? If my tool ever becomes wide spread I'd like there to be an easy way to update images like the one we saw before the weekend. Thanks a lot, Fako

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Wikimedia Github organization
by Florian Schmidt 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

Hi all! Today I had a look on my github profile page and I recognized, that some of the commits I made to Wikimedia projects, are not listed in the contributions activity list. Because my ego is sometimes really big (;)), I started looking around where they're. My finding was (according to the github help[1]), that a commit and a repo of the commit must fulfill some requirements: All of: The email address used for the commits is associated with your GitHub account. The commits were made in a standalone repository, not a fork. The commits were made: In the repository's default branch (usually master) In the gh-pages branch (for repositories with Project Pages sites) -> all of them are fulfilled by my commits And at least one of: You are a collaborator on the repository or are a member of the organization that owns the repository. You have forked the repository. You have opened a pull request or issue in the repository. You have starred the repository. Ok, that's problematic: Because we use gerrit for code-review, I normally does not fork any project of Wikimedia on github, why should I? So, this doesn't sound like a solution for the problem, because forking, just to have the contributions visible sounds like a bad solution at all. I could, however, Open a pull request or an issue for all projects, but, apart from the work doing this manually, this sounds like wasted time, too, as we don't use pull requests on github and use phabricator instead of github issues for the organization of work, that's why this is not a solution, too. Star-ing all repositories would be, from the meaning, totally ok, however, there're two problems: The manual work to do that sounds like wasted time, too, and I would use the star only, if I really like the repository, like I did before for some of the projects (core, ConfirmEdit, ...). Doing it just for getting the contributions visible on the profile sounds bad to me, too, perfonally. Being a collaborator is also probably not the right solution, as that would require, that someone invites me to all projects under Wikimedia, which is a lot of work for at least two people, and it's wasted time, too. So, I was wondering, if, and if yes how, I, as a community contributor, could be a member of the Wikimedia organization on github. I searched on mediawiki.org and wikitech, but couldn't find a policy or information page about it, and that's what this thread should be all about :P I asked hashar and he looked at the people, who are already part of the org, and found some volunteers, so he invited me, too. However, I think we should've at least a broader discussion, and hopefully we can create a help page or a public policy for if, when and how a volunteer developer can be a member of the Wikimedia org on github. So I'm open for opinions and discussions, probably there's already some information available, and I just haven't found it? :) Thanks for your time Florian [1] https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on- my-profile/

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Fair use image indicated as free use?
by Fako Berkers 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Hi, I'm running the tool algo-news and I discovered that this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Odin_lloyd.jpg Is indicated as a free image in the API: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&prop=pageprops&action=query&… Should I report this as a bug? Or if the "page_image_free" does not indicate free use, how can I determine easily whether an image is indeed free use instead of only fair use? Thanks, Fako

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-04-10
by Chris Koerner 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

Hello, This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-04-10 going through the week of 2017-04-21 == Highlights == * A blog post about Discovery's Search team was released, along with a Twitter and Facebook post, detailing what we've done over the last several months and what we have coming up next. Numerous tests have been done with real users to get their feedback on the sister project snippets and the upcoming explore similar feature. [0] [1] [2] == Discussions == ===Search === * Finished a write up based a discussion Trey & David had about the math of scoring functions. Use your hyperoperations, kids! [3] ===Analysis === * Fixed a bug on the portal dashboard, and updated the search dashboard with an option to view how the relative share of each search engine changes over time [4] [5] * Updated the external search dashboard to display non-bot traffic [6] [7] * Updated the WDQS dashboard to include the SPARQL endpoints [8] === Portal === * A scap3 bug was fixed (task T161832) that had been blocking portal deployments and thus, we were able to deploy several updates for RTL display [9] [10] [11] * Portal statistics and translations were updated [12] [13] * Multiple other minor enhancements were made to the css, colors of the portal page [0] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/10/searching-wikipedia/ [1] https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/851506674200346624 [2] https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10155070205158346 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Some_Thoughts_on_the… [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161806 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161771 [6] https://discovery.wmflabs.org/external/ [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161932 [8] https://discovery.wmflabs.org/wdqs/ [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122053 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160429 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160002 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 --- The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikistats 2.0 Prototype
by Dan Andreescu 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

Hello! We've built an interactive prototype of the next version of Wikistats <https://analytics-prototype.wmflabs.org/> [1] based on community priorities and feedback. We'd love your input on the visual design and look & feel. We have some follow-up questions but mostly an open discussion here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_Project/RequestforFeedb…> [2]. Please comment by *Monday, May 1st* so we can include your feedback into the first release of Wikistats 2.0. Thank you very much! Your Wikistats 2.0 Team [1] https://analytics-prototype.wmflabs.org/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_Project/RequestforFeedb… p.s. apologies for cross-posting

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2018: Looking for Proposals
by Rachel Farrand 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

Hello! Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2018 Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for proposals! Hackathon information: Specific to the 2018 Hackathon - *https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2018_Decision_Process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2018_Decision_Process>* - *https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_location_decision_process_for_2018 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_l…>* All Hackathons - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathon_101 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Hackathon_tips_for_organizers This year’s Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017> will be held in Vienna, Austria from 19-21 May. Ideally we will announce the host for 2017 before the end of March, 2017 so that the 2018 organizers can attend the Vienna Hackathon and start gathering ideas. If multiple chapters or organizations are interested, we hope to work together to figure out the the best solution. Any organizations interested in hosting should please create a Phabricator ticket and associate it with the Developer-Relations project. Srishti and I are happy to assist if needed. Examples: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050 Include as much information as possible from: proposing a hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon> Please email me at rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org with any questions or concerns. I am not on the chapters@ list, so if there is anything that I should respond to, make sure to keep me on CC. Also please forward this email anywhere you think it might be useful. Looking forward to hearing from you! Rachel Farrand Events and Program Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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