Wikitech-l May 2017

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Get Wikipedia Page Titles using API looks Endless
by Abdulfattah Safa 07 May '17

07 May '17

I'm trying to get all the page titles in Wikipedia in namespace using the API as following: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&list=allpages&ap… I keep requesting this url and checking the response if contains continue tag. if yes, then I use same request but change the *BASE_PAGE_TITLE *to the value in apcontinue attribute in the response. My applications had been running since 3 days and number of retrieved exceeds 30M, whereas it is about 13M in the dumps. any idea?

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Data gathering for intermittent issue
by James Montalvo 07 May '17

07 May '17

Hello, I'm troubleshooting an issue that impacts some users but not others, and I'd like to collect data to try to identify the cause. Could anyone willing to help please go to [1] and let me know if they either: A) See any events on the calendar initially (e.g. in Sept 2012), or B) Have to navigate back in the calendar to fall 2011 (approximately October 2011) to see events. To avoid spamming this list, please reply directly to me or comment on the GitHub issue [2], and let me know: 1. The result of the check above (A or B) 2. OS type and version 3. Browser(s) used 4. Any internationalization aspects of your setup like country/timezone, language, etc. (Specifically this issue is related to time formatting, so I think this info may be useful) I will anonymize any info provided to me. Thanks, James [1] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jamesmontalvo3/Test2 [2] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/2440

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MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.8.0 released
by Legoktm 06 May '17

06 May '17

Hi, MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.8.0 is now available for use in your MediaWiki extensions and other projects. Here's the full list of changes since the last release (0.8.0-alpha.1): * Add sniff for cast operator spacing (Sam Wilson) * Allow filtering documentation requirements based on visibility (Kunal Mehta) * Don't require documentation for test cases (Kunal Mehta) * Don't require @return annotations for plain "return;" (Kunal Mehta) * Explicitly check for method structure before using (Sam Wilson) * Fix test result parsing, and correct new errors that were exposed (Sam Wilson) * Prevent abstract functions being marked eligible (Sam Wilson) * PHP_CodeSniffer to 2.9.0 (Paladox) This release contains a lot of new rules documenting functions and ensuring parameters and return types are specified. It's most likely that existing code will not pass the new rulset without documentation improvements (see MediaWiki Documentation Day email ;)). If you encounter any bugs or have suggestions on new rules, please reply to this thread or file a bug in the #MediaWiki-Codesniffer Phabricator project. Thanks, -- Legoktm

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Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2017 & Outreachy Round 14
by Sejal Khatri 06 May '17

06 May '17

Hello Everyone! I am Sejal Khatri, a Final year undergraduate student of computer science from India, graduating in 2017. I have been a part of Wikimedia Community since December'16 as I was selected for Outreachy winter internship round. I had worked on improving the user profile pages of the Wiki Education Foundation's Dashboard project <https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/>. I really admire the community support provided and would like to thank the administrators for making it all possible. I am super excited for my GSoC journey and being able to interact with the community at such a large scale. GSoC Project: *To provide enhanced usability for Wikimedia Programs & Events Dashboard managed by Wiki Education foundation <https://wikiedu.org/>.* Wikimedia Programs & Events Dashboard <https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/> is a Project used by global Wikimedia community to organize all kinds of programs, including edit-a-thons, education programs, and other events. The Aim of this project is to add/improve various new features to the Dashboard and increase the overall scope of the project. I'll start by connecting with some Dashboard users and setting up the priorities for the improvements to be made accordingly. I am thrilled thinking about the impact I will make by my contributions. Thanks and regards, Sejal

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CREDIT videos from April and May 2017 posted
by Adam Baso 05 May '17

05 May '17

Hi all - in case you missed them, the demos from CREDIT last month and today are up. April 2017 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase/2017-04-05 Neslihan Turan, Wiki_Radio (for Android) Jan Drewniak, Wiktionary definition widget for search results May 2017 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase/2017-05-03 Željko Filipin, Selenium tests in Node.js Enjoy! -Adam

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eqiad->codfw datacenter switchover, weeks of Apr 17th/May 1st
by Faidon Liambotis 05 May '17

05 May '17

Hi all, You may have heard already that, like last year, we are planning to switch our active datacenter from eqiad to codfw in the week of April 17th and back to eqiad two weeks later, on the week of May 1st. We do this periodically in order to exercise our ability to run from the backup site in case of a disaster, as well as our ability to switch seamlessly to it with little user impact. Switching will be a gradual, multi-step process, the most visible step of which will be the switch of MediaWiki application servers and associated data stores. This will happen on April 19th (eqiad->codfw) and May 3rd (codfw->eqiad), both at 14:00 UTC. During those windows, the sites will be placed into read-only mode, for a period that we estimate to last approximately 20 to 30 minutes. Furthermore, the deployment train will freeze for the weeks of April 17th and May 1st[1], but operate normally on the week of April 24th, in order to exercise our ability to deploy code while operating from the backup datacenter. 1: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments Compared to last year we have improved our processes considerably[2], in particular by making more services operate in an active/active manner, as well as by working on an automation and orchestration framework[3] to perform parallel executions across the fleet. The core of the MediaWiki switchover will be performed semi-automatically using a new software[4] that will execute all the necessary commands in sequence with little human involvement, and thus lowering the risk of introducing errors and delays. 2: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter 3: https://github.com/wikimedia/cumin 4: https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-switchdc Improving and automating our processes means that we're not going to be following the exact same steps as last year. Because of that, and because of other changes introduced in our environment over the course of the year, there is a possibility of errors creeping into the process. We'll certainly try to fix any issues that arise during those weeks and we'd like to ask everyone to be on high-alert and vigilant. To report any issues, please use one of the following channels: 1. File a Phabricator issue with project #codfw-rollout 2. Report issues on IRC: Freenode channel #wikimedia-tech (if urgent, or during the migration) 3. Send an e-mail to the Operations list: ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org (any time) Thanks, Faidon -- Faidon Liambotis Principal Operations Engineer Acting Director of Technical Operations Wikimedia Foundation

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ArchCom Radar, 2017-05-03
by Daniel Kinzler 05 May '17

05 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/2017-05-03>. 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: * Everyone was busy with the Data center switch. Deployment of etcd for dynamic configuration did not work out. Ask Tim Starling for details. * IRC meeting on long revision comments happened: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333#3238588 * Next week’s IRC: Big schema change for MCR and revision table scalability. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350097/ / https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161671 -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2017 & Outreachy Round 14
by Alangi Derick 05 May '17

05 May '17

Hello, I want to cease this opportunity to congratulate all selected GSoC + Outreachy participants. Congratulations and do code the summer away 😊. Happy Hacking!!! Kind regards Alangi Derick N On May 4, 2017 11:58 PM, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: Welcome GSOC and Outreachy people. I'm especially glad to learn of the planned improvements to the Wiki Ed dashboard and the Quiz extension. Good luck in your new roles, Pine _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Security: phishing attack via Google Docs
by Pine W 03 May '17

03 May '17

There are reports of a "sophisticated" phishing attack on Google Docs users today. I believe that many WMF staff, Wikimedia affiliate staff, and individual Wikimedians make use of Google apps, so I'm forwarding this news to Wikimedia lists. Victims of this attack may have had their data accessed. http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/03/technology/google-docs-phishing-attack/ https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3/15537064/google-docs-phishing-attack-fixed Pine

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RFC discussion today: how to store long(er) revision comments
by Daniel Kinzler 03 May '17

03 May '17

This is a reminder of today's RFC discussion about how to store longer revision comments in the database: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333> One of the main discussion points is whether the necessary schema change should be made as part of a larger refactoring of the revision table, or whether it should be done in an isolated way, so it is not blocked on other projects. Another point is if and how deduplication should be applied. 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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