Wikitech-l January 2018

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Reboot of irc.wikimedia.org
by Alexandros Kosiaris 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

Hello everyone, This is to inform you that on Monday Feb 22nd 2018 ~10:00 UTC, the infrastructure powering irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted for security upgrades. This is expected to only impact bots that are using irc.wikimedia.org AND are not able to automatically reconnect on connection failure. From recent experience (the equipment was rebooted 210 ago last time, with no fallout) those are very limited in number these days. Regards, -- Alexandros Kosiaris <akosiaris(a)wikimedia.org>

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RevisionInsertComplete vs. RevisionRecordInserted
by Stas Malyshev 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hi! I've noticed that RevisionInsertComplete hook is now deprecated in favor of RevisionRecordInserted. However, EventBus still uses RevisionInsertComplete. Is this going to change soon? If so, will the underlying event/topic change too? I couldn't find anything in Phabricator about this - is there plan to change it or still use old hook for now and foreseeable future? Thanks, -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org

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+2 nomination for WMDE-leszek in mediawiki/*
by Addshore 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hi, I've filed <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185593>, nominating WMDE-leszek for +2 in mediawiki/ repos. -- Addshore

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2018-01-31 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-01-31 *= 2018-01-31 =* == Callouts == * Parsing team had planned to replace Tidy on an additional 200+ wikis including 4 large/medium wikis today (Jan 31). ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185945, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184656 ) But, this has been postponed to Feb 6 because this week is a no M/W train, no SWAT week as per https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_January_29th * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186133 - login issues on expired beta commons sessions, product and QA are having trouble testing things == Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Dev Summit / All Hands ** Continuing work on 5.8.0 - Synced Reading Lists ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v5.8.0-manatee-on-a-skateboar… ) ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: continuous integration - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185931 * Blocking: * Updates: ** Dev Summit / All Hands ** Ready to release current version (improved reading list performance) ==== Reading Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Dev Summit / All Hands, not much else happened ** Trying again to get the summary switched over this week, probably more gradually by not forcing rerenders at first. ===== Maps ===== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Multimedia ==== * Thanks to WMDE and Search (and others) for meatspace availability last week, it was very helpful * Beta commons login issues related to expired sessions seem persistent on beta cluster - specifically on UploadWizard, not sure what's happening there - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186133 ==== Discovery ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Community Tech === * Blocked by: Waiting on security review for GlobalPreferences * Blocking: * Updates: Beginning to work on ping users from edit summary wish; Close to wrapping up work on Grant metrics tool; Investigating other wishes === Contributors === ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: Parsoid clients (VE, CX, Flow) needing to review and approve https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/402455/ * Blocking: * Updates: ** Had originally planned to replace Tidy on an additional 200+ wikis including 4 large/medium wikis today (Jan 31). ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185945, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184656 ) But, this has been postponed to Feb 6 because this week is a no M/W train, no SWAT week. ** Would appreciate DBA input on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173943#3933570 .. Kunal has added the #DBA phab tag already and so this SoS notification is just an FYI. ** Question to everyone: Every once in a while, Parsoid makes changes that requires downstream clients to update / approve changes. Longer-term, once Parsoid HTML is used for everything, we have a formal content-negotiation process that includes content versioning and version headers, but for now, when our clients are all internal and the contention negotiation support is not yet in place in the Parsoid + RESTBase stack, something quicker and simpler for faster change deployment is what we need. We have followed a combo of gerrit / phab / irc / email / SoS for this so far, but suggestions welcome for of how best to get everyone's attention and action in a timely fashion. Or is our combo process the best way to make this happen? ==== Global Collaboration ==== ===== Collaboration ===== * Mostly, our team is getting up to speed on Maps, our new assignment. * Collaboration and Language are now two separate teams again. ===== Language ===== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== UI Standardization ==== ** No OOUI release today * Ongoing: ** OOUI: Toolbar demo overhaul in preparation of the icon refinement ** Style Guide *** Preparation for goal v1 of the Style Guide, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimediaui_style_guide/ ** AnnualReport *** Fixing its accessibility issues == Technology == === Analytics === * Updates: **All-hands +I offsite this week - nothing to mention === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Starting work on adding EventLogging to CentralNotice, initially along with existing impression tracking, but at a low sample rate ** Upgrading our Civi instance to latest version ** Continuing work on new API for main credit card processor ** Fixing various vagrant issues relating to OS update === MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Developer Summit and All Hands *** Audiences Technology Working Group meetings *** Evolving the MediaWiki Architecture *** Supporting Third-Party Use of MediaWiki ** Filed "DiscussThis" RFC T185607 ** Multi-Content Revisions/Actor Table/Comment Table work on-going ** TemplateStyles ready to deploy === Performance === * Blocked by: Review of mcrouter puppet code (SRE knows) * Blocking: * Updates: ** Offsite/DevSummit/All Hands ** Adding perf monitoring of svwiki in preparation for release of TemplateStyles ** Continued improvements to Thumbor based on new error logging === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** DevSummit/All Hands/Offsite week ** Phonetic search writeup published: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Overview_of_Phonetic… next testing prototype on RelForge ** Hewiki test analyzed: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets/discovery/reports/Second_MLR_Test_… ** Working on refactoring for search profiles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183279 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 ** Working on Serbian analyzer for ES: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183015 ** Added more data to category RDF dumps: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173980 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185127 ** Deep category search patches in review: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185127 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184840 === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Services === * Blocked by: global collaboration on flow * Blocking: none * Updates: ** slow === Technical Operations === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == Wikidata == * Work on Lexeme extension continues with proper persistance and diff support * Constraint violations now checked on qualifiers and references: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532 * Tuning usage tracking to get full recent changes integration back: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178079 * Started logging warnings on pages that use too many items: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184319 * Wikibase motivated a (tiny) fix in CoreParserFunctions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182800

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Gerrit upgrade - Friday 2/2
by Chad Horohoe 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Howdy Gerriters! On Friday, I'll finally be upgrading Gerrit from 2.13.9 to 2.14.6. Going to do this from 21:00–23:00 UTC. It shouldn't take the full two hours, but hey it's Gerrit. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156120 <3 -Chad

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RFC meeting tomorrow: JavaScript package management
by Tim Starling 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Please join us tomorrow on the Freenode channel #wikimedia-office to discuss "MediaWiki support for Composer equivalent for JavaScript packages" <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107561> at the usual time of 21:00 UTC, 13:00 PST. -- Tim Starling

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Audiences Q2 FY1718 Quarterly Check-In slides & notes
by Grace Gellerman 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi, Wikitech-l Slide decks and notes from recent FY1718 Q2 Audiences Quarterly Check-Ins are posted as follows: Audiences 1 (Contributors): slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Copy_of_Quarterly_Check-in_January_…> & notes <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/Quarterly_…> Audiences 2 (Readers, Audiences Ops) slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Readers_Q2_check-in_January_2018.pdf>& notes <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/Quarterly_…> Audiences 3 (Community Tech, Design Research, and Wikidata) slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CommTech_QCI_Q2_Jan_2018.pdf> (there were no notes from Audiences 3) These and other links are also posted on the quarterly checkin page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Pl…> . Thanks, Grace

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Wikidata vandalism dashboard (for Wikipedians)
by Amir Ladsgroup 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hello, People usually ask me how they can patrol edits that affect their Wikipedia or their language. The proper way to do so is by using watchlist and recentchanges (with "Show Wikidata edits" option enabled) in Wikipedias but sometimes it shows too many unrelated changes. Also, it would be good to patrol edits for languages you know because the descriptions are being shown and editable in the Wikipedia app making it vulnerable to vandalism (so many vandalism in this area goes unnoticed for a while and sometimes gets fixed by another reader which is suboptimal). So Lucas [1] and I had a pet project to allow you see unpatrolled edits related to a language in Wikidata. It has some basic integration with ORES and if you see a good edit and mark it as patrolled it goes away from this list. What I do usually is to check this page twice a day for Persian langauge which given the size of it, that's enough. It's in https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdvd/index.php the source code is in https://github.com/Ladsgroup/Vandalism-dashboard and you can report issues/bug/feature requests in https://github.com/Ladsgroup/Vandalism-dashboard/issues Please spread the word and any feedback about this tool is very welcome :) [1]: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister_(WMDE)> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister_(WMDE) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister_(WMDE)> Best

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Scoring platform team status update
by Adam Wight 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Friends, Anyone interested in ORES and Scoring Platform’s recent progress can read an exhaustive list on our engineering blog, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/84/status_update_january_… <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/84/status_update_january_…> Aside from supporting several new languages, the biggest changes that might affect other developers are that: we now supply enwiki new article draft quality predictions, already loaded into the MediaWiki database via Extension:ORES; and all of our models now include statistics that can be used to calculate appropriate cutoff points. Enjoy! -Amir, Aaron, Adam, and Sumit

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2018.01 release
by Kartik Mistry 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2018.01. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.29 and 1.30 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]]. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.01.tar… * sha256sum: a6d90633cf16dbf48c0481d1e073130717d98b9540c0d1b80059bb34946c6749 Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Highlights and upgrade notes == == Babel and LocalisationUpdate == === Noteworthy changes === * Localisation and maintenance updates only. == cldr == === Noteworthy changes === * Updated to CLDR 32. * Localisation and maintenance updates. == cleanchanges == === Noteworthy changes === * Added wgCCFiltersOnly to disable "clean changes" (which has issues with new recent changes interface) while keeping filters available. * Localisation and maintenance updates. == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Special:PageMigration: Fixed save button, added RTL direction support and fixed broken icon in delete button. (T179182, T139463) * Added RESTBaseWebService support to allow using Apertium using CXServer MT API through RESTBase. * Removed MediawikiExtensionFFS. Migrate to JsonFFS if you were still using this format. * Almost all legacy non-TUX code has been removed. (T132546) * Added "Link to this message" to translation editor tools. * GettextFFS keyAlgorithm default value changed to "simple" from "legacy". This will produce shorter page titles and shorter titles. You must add legacy to your configuration to keep using existing titles for GettextFFS. (T178882) * Translation filter is now part of the new recent changes interface if the new interface is available. == UniversalLanguageSelector == === Noteworthy changes === * User interface and search improvements. * Fixed page scroll to the top when the the ULS gear icon is clicked. (T178188) ==== Fonts ==== * Removed non-default webfonts for some languages. (T180422) * Remove the autonym font and tofu detection. * ULS no longer serves TTF files to browsers because all recent browsers support the woff format. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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