Wikitech-l September 2017

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[REMINDER] [Webcast] Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom) announcement in less than 24 hours
by Srishti Sethi 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

Hello everyone, This is a reminder for the *Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom) announcement webcast (*by Victoria Coleman <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:VColeman_(WMF)> and Daniel Kinzler <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)>) that starts in less than 24 hours -- September 5, 2017, at 17:00 UTC <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TechCom+announcem…> via YouTube live. Link to live YouTube stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtH-EmGmOWs Connect to Freenode IRC for questions #wikimedia-office <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office> In this webcast, we will share the revised charter of the TechCom <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter> with the developer community and answer any questions you might have. We will also ask for your suggestions on how you think the committee can best support you. Looking forward to your presence! Cheers, Srishti -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?
by Kaartic Sivaraam 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

On Sat, 02 Sep 2017 02:06:09 +0000, Chad<innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote, > (3) I would*really* like to have 2--maybe 3--browsers to list. There's > zero reason to make users think there's only one option when there's a > couple of valid ones. I would love that too. Imagine that we do take the step and start promoting Firefox "alone" to legacy users. I "suspect" the first reaction of a user who doesn't take the time to realise we're promoting an open-source movement while trying to help them get rid of their legacy browser to be, "I thought Wikipedia doesn't show ads/promotions. Seems they have changed their motive of "Not showing ads for revenue"! May be they'll be showing more ads in the future. ARRRGGHHH!" That might be a little over boasted, though! In order to avoid such reactions how about recommending Firefox in the pop-up/central notice and linking to a list of other good browsers to show we aren't promoting /advertising browsers. For the list of other browsers we could link to https://browsehappy.com To address this, On Fri Sep 1 13:55:19 UTC 2017, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote, > -1 to linking any resource which is not itself free software, > translatable with free software and managed by a privacy-compliant org. I guess browsehappy is at least open source. https://github.com/WordPress/browsehappy --- Kaartic

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TechCom Radar, 2017-08-30
by Daniel Kinzler 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Hi all! Find below the minutes of the last meeting of the Technical Committee. * Giuseppe Lavagetto joins TechCom! * Ongoing issue: Large job queue backlog, see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173710> and <https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/job-queue-health> * Work started on MCR (Daniel, Anomie). Expect RFC for finalizing the data model soon. Old draft: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Content_Meta-Data> * IRC meeting on HTML5 (UTF8) section IDs happened. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540#3573800> * Postgres RFC approved, except for the proposed change to the representation of timestamps. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898> * Next week’s IRC: Separate "application" and "project" concerns by moving most of MediaWiki within a /core folder <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167038> As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST). * Investigation on offline reading (PDF and HTML/ZIM): <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171965> and <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172732> You can also find our meeting minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes> See also the TechCom RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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libraryupgrader will now upgrade libraries
by Legoktm 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hi, In the past I used a few scripts on my laptop to submit patches and review bumps to libraries, usually for MediaWiki-CodeSniffer. I've now migrated this to a separate account "libraryupgrader", that is now semi-automatically doing the entire process, and runs inside a Cloud VPS project. I've also filed a request for the bot to have +2 permissions for simple library bumps[1]. (And thank you to Niharika for stepping up and helping review today's library update of MediaWiki-CodeSniffer!) [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174760 Thanks, -- Legoktm

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MediaWiki-CodeSniffer 0.12.0
by Legoktm 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hello! MediaWiki-CodeSniffer 0.12.0 is now available for use in your MediaWiki extensions and other projects. This release fixes bugs from 0.11.0 as well as some new features: * Add sniff to ensure floats have a leading `0` if necessary (Kunal Mehta) * Add sniff to ensure the class name matches the filename (Kunal Mehta) * Change bootstrap-ci.php to match PHP CodeSniffer 3.0.0 (Umherirrender) * Check for unneeded punctation in @param and @return (Umherirrender) * Check spacing after type in @return (Umherirrender) * Check spacing before type in @param and @return (Umherirrender) * Clean up test helpers (Kunal Mehta) * Do not mess long function comments on composer fix (Umherirrender) * Enforce "short" type definitions in multi types in function comments (Umherirrender) * Make it easier to figure out which test failed (Kunal Mehta) * phpunit: replace deprecated strict=true (Umherirrender) * Remove GoatSniffer integration (Kunal Mehta) * Remove unmatched @codingStandardsIgnoreEnd (Umherirrender) * Rename OpeningKeywordBracketSniff to OpeningKeywordParenthesisSniff (Reedy) * Use local OneClassPerFile sniff for only one class/interface/trait (Kunal Mehta) Patches were submitted by libraryupgrader for all MediaWiki extensions and skins to update them to the newest version (see my other email for more details). Thanks, -- Legoktm

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2017-08
by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2017-08): 300 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2017-08): 928 Task authors in (2017-08): 519 Users who have closed tasks in (2017-08): 293 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2017-08): 317 Tasks created in (2017-08): 2589 Tasks closed in (2017-08): 1882 Open and stalled tasks in total: 35733 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 26 Needs Triage: 303 High: 540 Normal: 747 Low: 997 Lowest: 978 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2017-08): 26 TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 . Yours sincerely, Fab Rick Aytor (via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Fri Sep 1 00:00:22 UTC 2017)

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