Wikitech-l May 2017

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Two Column Edit Conflict View as a beta feature on all wikis
by Birgit Müller 12 May '17

12 May '17

- my apologies for cross posting - Hey all, today the TwoColConflict extension (= Two Column Edit Conflict View) [1] got deployed as a beta feature to all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easier to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. [2] [3] The feature aims to fulfill a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German-speaking community's Technical Wishlist. Therefore, the focus of the feature lays on providing a more user-friendly interface and does not aim to improve the current diff engine. The concept & implementation of the feature was widely discussed with many different users onwiki and in real life and got developed over the past months. [3] The beta feature has already been available on deWP, meta, heWP, arWP for more than 2 months and on fiWP for a few weeks. As much as we don't want anyone to run into an edit conflict, we'd love to receive feedback on the new interface in case you have one! The feature can be activated in the beta feature section, and the feedback link provided there will bring you to: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki /Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback so far and helped us to further improve the feature! Birgit (for WMDE's Technical Wishes team) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TwoColConflict (extension manual for developers) [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View (Multilingual help page & central feedback page for all users) [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts (English-speaking project page with documentation of research, prototype testing and feedback loops) [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes (Technical Wishes project page) -- Birgit Müller Community Communications Manager Software Development and Engineering Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.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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MediaWiki Documentation Day is tomorrow!
by Ryan Kaldari 11 May '17

11 May '17

Tomorrow (or today if you're in Asia/Australia) is the day to take a break from writing code and instead devote some time to writing and updating documentation. If you're not sure what would be good to write about, here are some places with suggestions: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Documentation_Day_2017#Requests * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/documentation/ * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126500 Be sure to list your documentation achievements at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Documentation_Day_2017#Results.

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Technical community consultation: Rebranding Cloud Services products
by Bryan Davis 11 May '17

11 May '17

In April 2017 the Wikimedia Foundation's TechOps Labs and Community Tech Tool Labs support teams merged into the Wikimedia Cloud Services team [0][1]. This new team is in charge of Wikimedia Labs, Tool Labs, the Labs database replicas (in partnership with the DBA team), data dump servers (in partnership with Ariel), Quarry, and PAWS. One component of the internal Foundation pitch for creating the team was that this would provide an opportunity to break with the past and undertake a rebranding effort designed to address the 'Labs labs labs problem' [2], as well as to raise awareness in the Wikimedia communities of the products and services offered under the Cloud Services umbrella. I'm happy to present the initial outline of the rebranding effort: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BryanDavis/Rebranding_Cloud_Servic…>. I would like to invite anyone interested in the future of Labs and Tool Labs to read the outline of rebranding tasks and provide feedback on gaps in the plan or aspects of the rebranding proposal that will conflict with other projects. This is a consultation and not consensus based decision making process. Not all things are possible in this space due to various restrictions including trademarks and copyrights. This consultation will stay open until at least 2017-05-26 to collect initial feedback. The entire Cloud Services team will also be present at the Vienna hackathon to discuss the topic in person with people who are there and interested. [0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086343.html [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Cloud_Services_team [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_labs_labs Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855

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Global language preference
by Petr Bena 11 May '17

11 May '17

Hi all, We have central auth, global user pages and stuff like that, do we have some kind of global preferences too? So that one could set interface language to English and have it like that on every single project they work on? I don't really see a need to have different projects with different interface language but if there was a need for this we could probably make it possible to override (like add language "Same as meta" which would be default option, or something of that kind). Maybe something that makes this possible already exists but I am not aware of that.

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2017-05-10 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 10 May '17

10 May '17

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-05-10 *= 2017-05-10 =* contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering == Call outs:== * Research Recommendation API being ported to node ** Could use review from Services ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164282 * RelEng: No train next week (we're on our offsite). RelEng probably won't be SWATting anything -- SWATs will be best effort === Reading === ==== Android ==== * Working on UI and DB updates to accommodate reading list syncing product requirements * Experimenting with partial XHR content loading in the WebView * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ==== iOS ==== * Last Week ** Released 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/ ** 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/ *** TWN localization pluralization support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126493 *** Places bug fixes * This Week ** 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/ *** Enhanced search visibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130159 *** Update feed design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141767 ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * fix handling of video tags in MCS (for Android app); removing mobile-text route; stop stripping some id attributes; work on new HTML route * finalizing plans for Reading Lists; RfC to follow soon ==== Web ==== * Aiming to address various log errors and UI regressions * RelEng may be interested in our activity in exploring CSS regression testing (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107588 ) ** Added a comment about Parsing team's visual diff testing there. :) === Community Tech === * Rolling out LoginNotify Extension to BetaCluster and TestWiki * Continuing work on CodeMirror extension for syntax highlighting * Continuing work on XTools rewrite No blockers! === Editing === ==== Parsing ==== * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/ is waiting on security review * Redlink support in Parsoid is now awaiting code review ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked * Blocking * Updates ** RCFilters *** New filters, including top revision *** Watchlist filters *** Saved queries to allow user to easily repeat their search *** Tour to invite people to use Beta Feature *** Fix contradictory RC filters *** Preparatory backend work to allow user to filter for multiple namespaces and tags ** Bug fixes for RCFilters, ORES, Echo, and Flow ==== UI Standardization ==== * This week: ** Continued work on bringing automatic Sketch export to Wikimedia UI Style Guide to always be up-to-date with design changes * Updates: ** OOjs UI: *** v0.21.3 released with 3 accessibility and 6 UI improvements, among those *** === German Technical Wishlist === * Deployed TwoColumnConflict resolution extension as Beta feature on all wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162806 === Wikidata === * Same as last weeks, focussing on the Lexeme frontend code. Demo wiki not up to date right now: http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org/index.php/Lexeme:L2 * Working on bugs and features for the WikibaseQualityConstraints extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikibase-quality/ === Research === * Reader segmentation survey in more languages ** test happening tomorrow in ja, ro, de, he wikis ** run all surveys from approx 15-22 May ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131949 ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151835 * Recommendation API being ported to node ** Could use review from Services ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164282 === TechOps === * Blocking ** None? * Blocked ** None * Updates ** Final stages of hiring for our open spot ** Mark (slowly) coming back from vacation ** Datacenter switchover is done :) === RelEng === * Blocking ** None? * Blocked ** None * Updates ** Next week team offsite *** no train *** SWATs on best volunteer effort === Security === * Reviews ** TemplateStyles ** JsonConfig/Kartographer ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/ === Fundraising Tech === * New hire is deploying CiviCRM fixes * About to run more tests of new PayPal integration * CiviCRM: 3rd party mailer integration * Ingenico re-build / library-ization work starting * CentralNotice Banner sequence merged, testing on beta === Discovery === * No blockers * Logstash/kibana upgraded to latest Elastic version * Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR) * Working on Hebrew language analyzer, report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/HebMorph_Analyzer_An… * Talk at R-Ladies SF about analytics work in Discovery: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Data_Science_Workflow_at_Discovery.pdf * Preparing for ES upgrade to 5.3.2

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 166, Issue 18
by Adithyan J 10 May '17

10 May '17

i am wihing for an unsubcribsion.. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:06 PM, <wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikitech-l mailing list submissions to > wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikitech-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikitech-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. logstash down on deployment-prep (Guillaume Lederrey) > 2. Re: logstash down on deployment-prep (Guillaume Lederrey) > 3. Re: Tech Talk: Wikimedia Foundation Technology and Product > Q&A Session #2 (Srishti Sethi) > 4. RFC discussion on Wednesday: Compacting the Revision table > (Daniel Kinzler) > 5. Re: Tech Talk: Wikimedia Foundation Technology and Product > Q&A Session #2 (Srishti Sethi) > 6. Global language preference (Petr Bena) > 7. Re: Global language preference (Martin Urbanec) > 8. Re: Global language preference (Amir E. Aharoni) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 16:49:12 +0200 > From: Guillaume Lederrey <glederrey(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] logstash down on deployment-prep > Message-ID: > <CA+yRHsWnLv8TjRRfyPfXFsnGSaStW8VQPP4Yue6nRrog2sVRbQ(a)mail.gmail. > com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello all! > > While aligning elasticsearch / logstash / kibana versions on > deployment-logstash2, I am running into some issues. Logstash does not > want to restart... > > This is tracked on phabricator [1], I'll let you know as soon as I > know what is going on... > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163709 > > Have fun! > > Guillaume > > -- > Guillaume Lederrey > Operations Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > UTC+2 / CEST > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 17:26:58 +0200 > From: Guillaume Lederrey <glederrey(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] logstash down on deployment-prep > Message-ID: > <CA+yRHsXFXi4s6emKSq4Lf6us_LQf50D_H6KeZec5dLtc3O+x1g@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > logstash is up and running again on deployment-prep. For those who are > interested, the logstash plugins that we used were deployed correctly, > present on disk, but not reloaded by logstash. The reloading part is > triggered by puppet [1], but that code does not seem to be robust > enough. > > Logstash was down and logs were not collected between ~12:40 and 15:15 UTC. > > All my apologises for this inconvenience.... > > [1] https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/ > modules/logstash/manifests/init.pp#L35-L42 > > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Guillaume Lederrey > <glederrey(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hello all! > > > > While aligning elasticsearch / logstash / kibana versions on > > deployment-logstash2, I am running into some issues. Logstash does not > > want to restart... > > > > This is tracked on phabricator [1], I'll let you know as soon as I > > know what is going on... > > > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163709 > > > > Have fun! > > > > Guillaume > > > > -- > > Guillaume Lederrey > > Operations Engineer, Discovery > > Wikimedia Foundation > > UTC+2 / CEST > > > > -- > Guillaume Lederrey > Operations Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > UTC+2 / CEST > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 09:05:10 -0700 > From: Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia > Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: Megan Neisler <mneisler(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Wikimedia Foundation Technology > and Product Q&A Session #2 > Message-ID: > <CANt0bJHYJb3RSmxCCtPTkxEmhaKR4tLGMkw+cKQCrq-5aOKWcw@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > REMINDER: This talk starts in 1 hour. > > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Please join us for the Wikimedia Foundation Technology and Product Q&A > > Session #2 by Victoria Coleman (CTO) and Toby Negrin (Interim VP of > > Product) on May 9, 2017, at 17:00 UTC via YouTube live. > > > > Link to live YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4kfgU9SZcg > > > > IRC channel for questions/discussion: #wikimedia-office > > > > More details: > > > > This talk is a follow-up of the Wikimedia Developer Summit session > > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0JdtauJkKs> and will address the next > > set of questions gathered via a voting survey for the summit: > > > > > > - > > > > For WMF dev teams, what is the right balance between pushing own work > > versus seeking and supporting volunteer contributors? > > > > > > > > - > > > > Do we have a plan to bring our developer documentation to the level of > > a top Internet website, a major free software project? > > > > > > > > - > > > > How can volunteers bring ideas and influence the WMF annual plans and > > quarterly goals? (Currently, when plans are published it's too late) > > > > > > > > - > > > > What vision do you see for MediaWiki and volunteer developers five > > years from now? > > > > > > Looking forward to your presence! > > > > Best, > > Srishti > > > > -- > > Srishti Sethi > > Developer Advocate > > Technical Collaboration team > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) > > > > > > -- > Srishti Sethi > Developer Advocate > Technical Collaboration team > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 19:37:07 +0200 > From: Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> > To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Brion Vibber > <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] RFC discussion on Wednesday: Compacting the > Revision table > Message-ID: <7673e08f-363b-b020-a2dc-72c7ab4d60ac(a)wikimedia.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > This is a reminder of Wednesday's RFC discussion about Compacting the > Revision > Table[1]. This RFC also touches upon aspects of Multi-Content Revisions[2] > and > is related to the need for storing longer revision comments[3], which we > discussed last week. > > There is a big schema change up for review, to showcase what exactly is > planned [4]. > > The discussion will take place on the #wikimedia-office channel on > Freenode, on > Wednesday May 10, at 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST). Depending on the > outcome > of this discussion, another meeting about this topic may be scheduled for a > later date, at a different time, to accommodate people in other time zones. > > [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161671> > [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595> > [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333> > [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350097/> > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Principal Platform Engineer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 11:52:39 -0700 > From: Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia > Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Wikimedia Foundation Technology > and Product Q&A Session #2 > Message-ID: > <CANt0bJEQge5GR5s5Zg_Mg7Axxv9JXOeUrUzM7SsvS1sOdze0Y > A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Thanks everyone for coming! Here is the link to the YouTube video: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4kfgU9SZcg > > Enjoy! > > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > REMINDER: This talk starts in 1 hour. > > > > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> Please join us for the Wikimedia Foundation Technology and Product Q&A > >> Session #2 by Victoria Coleman (CTO) and Toby Negrin (Interim VP of > >> Product) on May 9, 2017, at 17:00 UTC via YouTube live. > >> > >> Link to live YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch? > v=Q4kfgU9SZcg > >> > >> IRC channel for questions/discussion: #wikimedia-office > >> > >> More details: > >> > >> This talk is a follow-up of the Wikimedia Developer Summit session > >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0JdtauJkKs> and will address the next > >> set of questions gathered via a voting survey for the summit: > >> > >> > >> - > >> > >> For WMF dev teams, what is the right balance between pushing own work > >> versus seeking and supporting volunteer contributors? > >> > >> > >> > >> - > >> > >> Do we have a plan to bring our developer documentation to the level > >> of a top Internet website, a major free software project? > >> > >> > >> > >> - > >> > >> How can volunteers bring ideas and influence the WMF annual plans and > >> quarterly goals? (Currently, when plans are published it's too late) > >> > >> > >> > >> - > >> > >> What vision do you see for MediaWiki and volunteer developers five > >> years from now? > >> > >> > >> Looking forward to your presence! > >> > >> Best, > >> Srishti > >> > >> -- > >> Srishti Sethi > >> Developer Advocate > >> Technical Collaboration team > >> Wikimedia Foundation > >> > >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Srishti Sethi > > Developer Advocate > > Technical Collaboration team > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) > > > > > > -- > Srishti Sethi > Developer Advocate > Technical Collaboration team > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 09:19:35 +0200 > From: Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Global language preference > Message-ID: > <CA+4EQ5cyfSOkbUurm50nO9X4EWjx9A27m=2pcgB+8YXM72Tptw(a)mail.gmail. > com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi all, > > We have central auth, global user pages and stuff like that, do we > have some kind of global preferences too? So that one could set > interface language to English and have it like that on every single > project they work on? > > I don't really see a need to have different projects with different > interface language but if there was a need for this we could probably > make it possible to override (like add language "Same as meta" which > would be default option, or something of that kind). > > Maybe something that makes this possible already exists but I am not > aware of that. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 07:26:02 +0000 > From: Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec(a)wikimedia.cz> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Global language preference > Message-ID: > <CAOCih8KRGe8Bm7O6Q0eqcp--RT8n5OU4qNHLG3avpXoMVPNm_Q@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Petr, > > an user can archieve that aim using global script and then viewing all > projects they want to change. AFAIK this was requested in the community > wishlist. > > Martin > > st 10. 5. 2017 v 9:20 odesílatel Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> napsal: > > > Hi all, > > > > We have central auth, global user pages and stuff like that, do we > > have some kind of global preferences too? So that one could set > > interface language to English and have it like that on every single > > project they work on? > > > > I don't really see a need to have different projects with different > > interface language but if there was a need for this we could probably > > make it possible to override (like add language "Same as meta" which > > would be default option, or something of that kind). > > > > Maybe something that makes this possible already exists but I am not > > aware of that. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 10:36:03 +0300 > From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Global language preference > Message-ID: > <CACtNa8uaLmAyTij0E4agMhdv+zxVCuaB4Jah4qGcqd99yenSWw@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > There's an RFC about that: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/ > Global_user_preferences > > A lot of things that should be global aren't global. > > Global user accounts are really global user names, passwords, and email > addresses, and not much else. User ids are not quite global—there is a > central id, but also a local id, and my impression is that the local id is > used more often. E.g., for analyzing contribution listing and statistics, > the local id is needed. > > Other things I can immediately think of that should be global and aren't: > Contribution listings, cookies, watchlists. And if we move away from user > accounts and identities, then also gadgets and templates (and of course > modules). (If I could have only one of all of those things, I'd vote for > global templates without any hesitation.) > > Global notifications (a.k.a. Echo) are available, which is nice. Global > user pages and common.js and common.css are possible, which is also nice. > Some people use global js to auto-set preferences in all wikis upon opening > them, which is a rather awful hack, but it does show that global > preferences are in demand. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > ‪“We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ > > 2017-05-10 10:19 GMT+03:00 Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com>: > > > Hi all, > > > > We have central auth, global user pages and stuff like that, do we > > have some kind of global preferences too? So that one could set > > interface language to English and have it like that on every single > > project they work on? > > > > I don't really see a need to have different projects with different > > interface language but if there was a need for this we could probably > > make it possible to override (like add language "Same as meta" which > > would be default option, or something of that kind). > > > > Maybe something that makes this possible already exists but I am not > > aware of that. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 166, Issue 18 > ******************************************* >

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Tech Talk: Wikimedia Foundation Technology and Product Q&A Session #2
by Srishti Sethi 09 May '17

09 May '17

Hello everyone, Please join us for the Wikimedia Foundation Technology and Product Q&A Session #2 by Victoria Coleman (CTO) and Toby Negrin (Interim VP of Product) on May 9, 2017, at 17:00 UTC via YouTube live. Link to live YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4kfgU9SZcg IRC channel for questions/discussion: #wikimedia-office More details: This talk is a follow-up of the Wikimedia Developer Summit session <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0JdtauJkKs> and will address the next set of questions gathered via a voting survey for the summit: - For WMF dev teams, what is the right balance between pushing own work versus seeking and supporting volunteer contributors? - Do we have a plan to bring our developer documentation to the level of a top Internet website, a major free software project? - How can volunteers bring ideas and influence the WMF annual plans and quarterly goals? (Currently, when plans are published it's too late) - What vision do you see for MediaWiki and volunteer developers five years from now? Looking forward to your presence! Best, Srishti -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)

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RFC discussion on Wednesday: Compacting the Revision table
by Daniel Kinzler 09 May '17

09 May '17

This is a reminder of Wednesday's RFC discussion about Compacting the Revision Table[1]. This RFC also touches upon aspects of Multi-Content Revisions[2] and is related to the need for storing longer revision comments[3], which we discussed last week. There is a big schema change up for review, to showcase what exactly is planned [4]. The discussion will take place on the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode, on Wednesday May 10, at 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST). Depending on the outcome of this discussion, another meeting about this topic may be scheduled for a later date, at a different time, to accommodate people in other time zones. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161671> [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595> [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333> [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350097/> -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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logstash down on deployment-prep
by Guillaume Lederrey 09 May '17

09 May '17

Hello all! While aligning elasticsearch / logstash / kibana versions on deployment-logstash2, I am running into some issues. Logstash does not want to restart... This is tracked on phabricator [1], I'll let you know as soon as I know what is going on... [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163709 Have fun! Guillaume -- Guillaume Lederrey Operations Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation UTC+2 / CEST

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-05-01
by Chris Koerner 08 May '17

08 May '17

Hello, Here is the weekly update for this past week. == Discussions == === Search === * Complete analysis of HebMorph Hebrew language analyzer, and a live demo with the recommended settings is available in labs. [0] [1] === Analysis === * [Chelsy] Talked about Discovery analysis team's work at R-Ladies SF event on May 2nd, focusing on building dashboard, report and testing using R. [2] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/HebMorph_Analyzer_An… [1] http://he-wp-hebmorph-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?search=&title= מיוחד%3Aחיפוש [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Data_Science_Workflow_at_Discovery.pdf --- 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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