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[MediaWiki-announce] 1.29.0-rc.0 released, timeline on 1.29.0, EOL of 1.23.x
by Chad Horohoe 31 May '17

31 May '17

Hi, I'd like to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.29.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.29.x. Links at the end of the e-mail. This is not a final release and should not be used for production websites. Notably, there's a few major outstanding bugs related to the job queue. As always please do try out the release candidate in a test environment. It's how we find bugs that didn't surface in initial development :) The timeline for 1.29.0 is a little fuzzy right now, and I apologize. The outstanding bugs have been pretty hard to isolate and fix, but I see progress so I hope those working on them will have it all resolved soon. Finally, per the version lifecycle I'm announcing the End Of Life of MediaWiki 1.23.x. The final release in this series was 1.23.17. Those installations using the versions as LTS should upgrade to 1.27.3, as 1.27.x is the supported LTS branch through June 2019. Full release notes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_29/RELEASE-NOTES… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.29 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-1.29.0-rc.0.tar.gz Core only, no extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-core-1.29.0-rc.0.ta… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-core-1.29.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-1.29.0-rc.0.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html -- Chad Horohoe _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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RFC discussion today: change PostgreSQL schema to be consistent with MySQL schema
by Daniel Kinzler 31 May '17

31 May '17

This is a reminder of today's RFC discussion about MediaWiki's database schema for PostgreSQL. Tim proposes to make it more similar to our MySQL schema, to reduce maintenance overhead and breakage <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898>. Rationale: The inconsistencies between the MySQL and PostgreSQL schemas cause a constant maintenance burden. PostgreSQL support is frequently broken in master. The PostgreSQL schema is certainly better than the MySQL one, if analyzed in isolation, but the advantages to PostgreSQL users of having an improved schema are more than outweighed by the disadvantages of inconsistency with the remainder of the installed MediaWiki user base. The discussion will take place on the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode, at 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST). -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Does Mathoid require RESTBase?
by James Montalvo 31 May '17

31 May '17

Extension:Math removed client side MathJax support after MW 1.25. This makes setup of the Math extension considerably more difficult. Mathoid was fairly straightforward, but RESTBase seems like it is much more complicated. Is RESTBase a hard requirement? Is there any way to connect to Mathoid directly, the way VE can connect to Parsoid directly? Thank you, James

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New feature for wikilabels to show progress of campaigns
by Amir Tafreshi 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hey, I'm excited to announce the new feature in wikilabels that allows people to check progress of campaigns they are labeling. Wikilabels [1] is a platform to gather human-labeled data so it can be used on ORES [2]. You can find its home page in https://labels.wmflabs.org. These data can be used in different AI models varying from fighting vandalism to quality of items in Wikidata to anti-harassment models. Until now, it was hard to get number of labels that is being made in each campaign or understand how much work is left. But from now on by accessing https://labels.wmflabs.org/stats and then going to your wiki you can have these data. For example, go to https://labels.wmflabs.org/stats/enwiki/ and it shows you progress of each campaign and how many labels are left to consider it done or number of unique volunteers who are labeling. Note that we are overhauling current paths of wikilabels to something completely new because current paths are a little bit confusing and jump around between GUI and API. So this URLs might change in the future [3] but we will announce that properly beforehand and also make sure there is redirect left from the old ones. Any feedback about this feature would be greatly welcome. Feel free to reach out to us in #wikimedia-ai at irc://irc.freenode.net or AI mailing list. [4] [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_labels [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165046 [4]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ai Best -- Amir Sarabadani Tafreshi, on behalf of Scoring platform team 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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productivity of mediawiki developers
by rupert THURNER 30 May '17

30 May '17

hi, is there a statistics about mediawiki developer productivity? i just fell over a couple of pages and i am quite impressed i must say: * gabriel, https://github.com/gwicke, 2'300 commits last year * jeroen, https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw, 3'700 commits a year * ori, https://github.com/atdt, 1'700 * james, https://github.com/jdforrester, 1'200 * yuri, https://github.com/nyurik, 900 * matt: https://github.com/mattflaschen, 400 commits rupert

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ArchCom Radar, 2017-05-24
by Daniel Kinzler 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hi all! Here are the minutes from this week's ArchCom meeting. You can also find the minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2017-05-24>. See also the ArchCom status page at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status> and the RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. Here are the minutes, for your convenience: * Lots of talk about JavaScript frameworks at the hackathon, see <https://docs.google.com/document/d/16oL-_166IvPNkVV0qQ3HJGtK9CynY5okygf0GdP…> * Stas is investigating ways to do deep category search using BlazeGraph, see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165982> * Next steps towards MCR: At the hackathon, we decided on a rough roadmap for factoring information out of the revision table, see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161671#3279414> * New RFC: Tim is proposing a cleanup of the directory structure for core code: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010> * New RFC: Daniel is proposing to drop the requirement for all namespaces to have an associated talk namespace: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149 * New RFC: Add “reading list” feature to MediaWiki: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990> * RFC to be discussed on IRC on Wednesday, Mai 31 (pending confirmation from Tim): Making MediaWIki’s PostgreSQL schema more compatible with the MySQL schema: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898> As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST). -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Video demos of upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol
by Pine W 29 May '17

29 May '17

I'd like to highlight two videos (some people may have already seen these) that demo upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol that take advantage of ORES. I feel that that the changes look promising, and I hope that RC patrollers, Teahouse hosts, newbie adopters, and others will find that the changes make their work easier. I also hope for improved retention of good-faith contributors. 0. A succinct overview by Joe Matazzoni (WMF): https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANew-feature_demo%E2%… 1. A more extensive overview, also by Joe, including valuable context, from the WMF Metrics Meeting for May 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGwQdLyFb4 between 15:00 and 28:15. Pine

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MW 1.30-wmf.2 deployed to and reverted from group2 (all wikipedias) today
by Greg Grossmeier 26 May '17

26 May '17

Investigation is still underway, but as of the end of Thursday wmf.2 is only on group0 (testwikis) and group1 (non-'pedias). See the tracking/blocker task at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163512 The issue that caused the revert is being tracked at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166345 You can track the status of the wmf.2 rollout via that tracking task above or by watching https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/ Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | Release Team Manager A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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2017-05-24 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 24 May '17

24 May '17

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-05-24 *= 2017-05-24 =* == Call outs:== * Analytics is working on a script for purging EventLogging Mysql (for those of you who don't expect that, please talk to us :). contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering == Reading == ==== iOS ==== * Last Week ** 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/ *** Analytics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164801 *** Update `In the news` feed logic and design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148739 *** Other bug fixes & enhancements * This Week ** 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/ *** Places search updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159733 *** Update `Top Read` feed design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165510 *** Places accessibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159733 *** Other bug fixes & enhancements ==== Android ==== * Dmitry, Rita at the hackathon. Mostly a testing and tech debt paydown week. * Beta release planned for late this week. * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ == Wikimedia Deutschland == * Very slow week. Many attended the Hackathon in Vienna, many still in Vienna for WikiCite. This Thursday is a public holiday, Friday typically a day off. * Wikidata team makes progress on the Lexeme UI. === Analytics === * Missed past 2 weeks - Apologies. * Last week we were in offsite + hackathon (2) - Yearly and preliminary quarterly goals have been discussed/agreed. * Ongoing: EventLogging to Hive code is in code review, we should have some tests soon. * Vetting Last_access_uniques for global sites (*.wikimedia.org) is taking us long time because of unexpected data issues. * We just deployed Event Logging with better bot detection (bot events are not stored in Mysql anymore). * Reportcards updated to mark notable data events. * Pageview data in Druid is now updated hourly (less than 2 hours late). * Pivot (data visualisation for Druid) is not Opensource anymore, we need to find a replacement. * We are working on a script for purging EventLogging Mysql (for those of you who don't expect that, please talk to us :). * Druid and pivot currently not working due to upgrade. === Technical Operations === * Blocking: none * Blockers: none * Updates: ** BBR rollout https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147569 ** Progress on asia DC continues === Services === * Blockers: none * NOT ATTENDING. nothing to report due to hackathon and vacations == Fundraising Tech == * More code cleanup and de-duplication as we move stuff from mediawiki extension to libraries * Fixing behavior of fraud filters on connection failure * CentralNotice deployment delayed on oojs-core library dependency, Andrew Green is talking to editing about a bugfix release * More Civi integration with third party email house == Editing == === Language === * No blockers/blocking. * Work on ContentTranslation migration to OOjs UI continue. === Parsing === * The preprocessor patch that tweaks language variant handling got merged and is riding the train this week ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fix… ) * We are ready to pursue using CSS to style Parsoid cite output without wiki messages (that are used currently for the Cite extension) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156351 ) * Linter fixes probably done this week ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350958/ ), and if all goes well, we mght be able to reenable Linter on large wikis within the next 2 weeks. * Once this week's train rolls out everywhere, we will be ready to merge and test Parsoid's red link (and redirect and disambig) support -- if all goes well, this might land within the next 2 weeks. === Collaboration === ==== Blocking ==== * Coordinating with Ops about a Flow dump issue ==== Blocked ==== ==== Updates ==== * Continued work on RC Filters UX, especially regarding namespace filters * Work on Echo patches at the hackathon ** Notification blacklist to block certain senders from notifying you. This won't be in production (other than testwiki) anytime soon, but we're working on getting it ready to test ** Improvements to edit-user-talk notification, to also notify for subpages === Discovery === * No blockers * Recovering from Hackaton/offsite/travel * Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.3 * Working on ML-enabled search ranking infrastructure === CommTech === * Rolling out LoginNotify to Test Wiki ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LoginNotify) * Fixed bugs in PageTriage extension at Hackathon * Polishing CodeMirror and getting community feedback ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror) * No blockers

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE
by Pine W 24 May '17

24 May '17

Perhaps this would interest some Wikidatans and software developers. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Maggs <Michael(a)maggs.name> Date: Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:58 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE To: "Discussion about the Wikimedia genealogy project." < wikimedia-genealogy(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: John Lubbock <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests in family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1] has been set up on Meta. I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who would be interested in joining an open source project to create a free platform independent application called History Research Environment [2] (‘HRE’) for the serious genealogist or historical researcher. Considerable effort has been put into high-level planning over several years, and we are now ready to start writing code. While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming integrated or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that the software should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to the agreement of the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of structured data including verified and fully sourced family trees. I'd be happy to answer queries. Michael Maggs [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project [2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org (please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the [wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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