Wikitech-l May 2017

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

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New DB_REPLICA constant; DB_SLAVE deprecated
by Aaron Schulz 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

As of 950cf6016c, the mediawiki/core repo was updated to use DB_REPLICA instead of DB_SLAVE, with the old constant left as an alias. This is part of a string of commits that cleaned up the mixed use of "replica" and "slave" by sticking to the former. Extensions have not been mass converted. Please use the new constant in any new code. The word "replica" is a bit more indicative of a broader range of DB setups*, is used by a range of large companies**, and is more neutral in connotations. Drupal and Django made similar updates (even replacing the word "master"): * https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 * https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692/files & https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a023… I don't plan on doing anything to DB_MASTER, since it seems fine by itself, like "master copy", "master tape" or "master key". This is analogous to a master RDBMs database. Even multi-master RDBMs systems tend to have a stronger consistency than classic RDBMs slave servers, and present themselves as one logical "master" or "authoritative" copy. Even in it's personified form, a "master" database can readily be thought of as analogous to "controller", "governer", "ruler", lead "officer", or such.** * clusters using two-phase commit, galera using certification-based replication, multi-master circular replication, ect... ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Appropriateness_of_… *** http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium… -- -Aaron

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Roadmap for CX?
by Strainu 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Following the recent outage, we've had a new series of complaints about the lack of improvements in CX, especially related to server-side activities like saving/publishing pages. Now, I know the team is involved in a long-term effort to merge the editor with the VE, but is there an end in sight for that effort? Can I tell people who ask "look, 6 more months then we'll have a much better translation tool"? Is there a publicly available roadmap for this project and more generally, for CX? Thanks, Strainu

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Tech Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!]
by Rachel Farrand 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

Please join for the following talk: *Tech Talk**:* A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!] *Presenter:* Asaf Bartov *Date:* February 09, 2017 *Time: *19:00 UTC <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+A+Ge…> Link to live YouTube stream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA> *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office *Summary: *This talk will introduce you to the Wikimedia Movement's latest major wiki project: Wikidata. We will cover what Wikidata is, how to contribute, how to embed Wikidata into articles on other wikis, tools like the Wikidata Game, and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples).

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use of @inheritdoc
by Ryan Kaldari 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

A question that came up during Documentation Day was whether or not we should use the @inheritdoc convention for indicating that methods are documented in parent classes (rather than leaving them blank). Some arguments for using it include: * It can help code-sniffers and linters know that the documentation isn't missing. * It lets humans who are looking at the code know that they can find documentation elsewhere. * We are already using it. (It appears over 200 times in core JavaScript and about 40 times in core PHP. It's also used in at least 19 production extensions.) Some arguments for not using it: * It isn't necessary for generating docs at doc.wikimedia.org (Doxygen automatically inherits method docs if available). * It would require adding thousands of extra comment blocks to our code to implement it consistently. What are people's opinions on using it? Also, a quick note on usage. A lot of our existing usage looks like "* {@inheritdoc}". As explained at phpdoc.org, this usage is technically incorrect: "Currently some applications have DocBlocks containing just the {@inheritDoc} inline tag to indicate that their complete contents should be inherited. This usage breaks with the PHPDoc Standard as summaries cannot contain inline tags and inheritance is automatic; you do not need to define a special tag for it. However, it does make clear that an element has been explicitly documented (and thus not forgotten). As such we are working to include a new (normal) tag in the PHPDoc Standard @inheritDoc that will serve that purpose." Information about the use of @inheritdoc in JavaScript can be found at http://usejsdoc.org/tags-inheritdoc.html.

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O'Reilly free books
by Amir Ladsgroup 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

O'Reilly just published some of their popular books for free, either as part of open access movement or some kind of marketing (or both). I find them useful to Wikimedia developers. It supports several types of e-books so you can read it in your kindle, etc.: * Performance, Operations, Release engineering: http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/ * Data, AI, Analytics: http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/ * Programming, architecture, Open source culture: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/ * Security: http://www.oreilly.com/security/free/ * Web platform, design: http://www.oreilly.com/web-platform/free/ This is a rather unusual type of email so I wasn't sure I was doing the right thing so I just sent it to wikitech-l. Please spread the word if you think it's okay or tell me if you think not. Thanks. Best

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CREDIT showcase, Wednesday 7-June-2017
by Lani Goto 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Hi! I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week, Wednesday, 7-June-2017 at 1800 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to see your demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished production material, or even just a telling of something you've been studying recently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordings of previous events, please visit the following page: <http://goog_1968694156/> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase And if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase, here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks! *Hi <FNAME>* *I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a monthly demo series that we’re running to showcaseopen source tech projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and Technology teams. * *CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The next CREDIT will be held on June 7th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. * *There’s more info on MediaWiki, and on Etherpad, which is where we take notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here). Links to video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.* *Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks. Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks working across the open source tech community: language detection, numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other things.* *If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.* *YOURNAME* -- Lani Goto Project Assistant, Engineering Admin

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Question re what-links-here
by Aran 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hello, I have some wikis which have had some of their content changed programmatically due to the code in a parser-function being changed. In the wikis that are MediaWiki 1.27, the links in the what-links-here didn't update after I ran the refreshLinks maintenance script. The ones that are 1.28's in the same situation the links updated fine after running the script... is this a known issue? is there any way I can update the links in the 1.27's without upgrading the wiki? Thanks, Aran

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