Wikitech-l March 2018

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Masaryk University mirrors of Wikipedia XML dumps
by defanor 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Hello, <https://dumps.wikimedia.org/mirrors.html> currently lists Masaryk University mirrors, which are inactive (mirroring there was intentionally stopped several years ago, it's not a temporary issue). It would be nice to update the list.

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Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for WMDE’s tech team) -- Michael F. Schönitzer 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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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-03-05
by Chris Koerner 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Hear ye, hear ye! This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-03-05. If you have feedback or questions, please let me know. == Discussions == === Search === * Trey (with a *lot* of help from Guillaume and David) finished wrapping an open-source stemmer for Serbian into an Elasticsearch plugin[0] for use on Serbian wikis. It will also support cross-script searching! It will still be a few weeks before the Serbian language projects are re-indexed, but we are moving toward that goal. We're also planning to investigate using the same stemmer on Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbo-Croatian wikis. [1] * Stas fixed a minor issue with using Blazegraph for deep category searching / returning of results [2] * Stas implemented quicker indexing for newly created Wikidata items [3] == Did you know? == * The sound associated with the letter <s> in English is called a "voiceless alveolar sibilant" by linguists, and appears in many languages. It also comes in at least three varieties, which sound more or less the same, but are articulated differently. You can see the Wikipedia page for technical details, [4] but the most obvious difference is that some people have the tip of their tongue behind their *lower* front teeth when they say /s/, while others have the tip of their tongue behind their *upper* front teeth or even a little further back along the roof of their mouth. * Another sound with multiple articulations—which isn't found in any language but *is* found in many cultures—is an "unvoiced linguolabial trill", also called a "raspberry". [5] Some people vibrate their lower lip against their tongue, others use their upper lip. Trying to do it the other way around can be very difficult, and a bit messy. Also of note, the name "raspberry" comes from Cockney rhyming slang [6]—see the Wikipedia page on "blowing a raspberry" for the full etymology. [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183015 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165982 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183053 [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_fricative#Features [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_a_raspberry [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly 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 Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: ¿Qué te hace feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 11 March 2018)
by Pine W 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

I apologize for forgetting to include Wikitech-l in my original post. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- What's making me happy this week: 1. A recent entry in the Mozilla Blog discussed the possible value of anonymity in decreasing bias in code review processes: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/03/08/gender-bias-code-reviews/ 2. The opt-in "pingback" telemetry from MediaWiki installations, which is available since March 2017, suggests that there are more than 40,000 unique installations. See: https://pingback.wmflabs.org, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPingback and https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Pingback_Privacy_Statement. There is also some news which is a little older and I am now getting around to sharing here: 3. A research project has been started which aims to test whether vandal activity can be detected in (near) real time, which may open opportunities for interventions earlier in the process of publishing edits. See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ai/2018-January/000221.html. What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Any way to find the used template from the template itself?
by Strainu 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Say we have an article which includes {{Infobox A}}, which redirects to {{Infobox B}}, which in turn transcludes {{Infobox}}, which is implemented using [[Module:Infobox]]. Is there a way to know from the module (or the {{Infobox}} template) which infobox was actually used in the article? Thanks, Strainu

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Wikitech move this Friday, 2018-03-09 at 16:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

On Friday morning my time (10:00 CST, 8:00 PST, 16:00 UTC) I'll be switching the dns record for wikitech.wikimedia.org to point to a new server. This change should be largely invisible to users, but there are a few things to be ready for: - Most importantly, YOU WILL BE LOGGED OUT of Wikitech. So if you've been relying on a persistent session to avoid having to keep track of your 2FA tokens, today is the day to reset 2FA and record the new information. - The new Wikitech build uses a lot of updated software (Debian Stretch, HHVM, etc.). Although we've done some spot-checks, there may be new issues that appear for your particular use case. We'll evaluate these as they crop up, and decide whether or not to revert to the old server. -Andrew

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Upcoming CI changes for PHP 7
by Kunal Mehta 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi, We're planning to enable tests against PHP 7.0 as a voting job for MediaWiki core, and all MediaWiki extensions and skins that currently have one for PHP 5.5 and HHVM. Tests have run in non-voting mode against nearly all extensions, most of which are passing[1]. There is currently 1 group of test failures, and 3 more extensions that are failing: * Tidy change[2] (being replaced with RemexHtml) * PhpTags test failures[3] * Mpdf is failing PHP 7.0 lint[4] * PHPExcel is failing PHP 7.0 lint[5] We're currently planning to land the tidy change Tuesday afternoon (following the branch cut). If someone wants to look into the three extension failures that would be appreciated :) After that sits for a few days, I plan on enabling PHP 7.0 voting tests on Thursday or Friday. I don't expect many problems given that most people have already been running MediaWiki with PHP 7.0 for quite a while now. The master task tracking all of this is [6]. [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/ci/last_run.html [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188167 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188585 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188523 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188586 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144962 Thanks, - -- Kunal / Legoktm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJLBAEBCgA1FiEE+h6fmkHn9DUCyl1jUvyOe+23/KIFAlqeOwUXHGxlZ29rdG1A bWVtYmVyLmZzZi5vcmcACgkQUvyOe+23/KK3Aw/9Hq5jZ1Mp9tejdLU+fGqSYH5s uD7Hc8lvoZf1qr6WBsO9GmIdtdftOClLuYoEp3yvPiJTRBuYVAucKd37GYGKBS2K Iw6FRV/MHmWnjythpK0O4vbjfxYSNGNrPZ6GHTSlJYpjTNPbKaGLIerDmxsrBfrg 0I+ce9xhxaPHjp/qLmXM/9e8Fvwm4MhAAxzQjVqm3z0QBT5Remudsk8C+/vFHe0K 4GT/DLd/m6M4fpqZG3C0oLKMkeTgzsHBUVvcX9SLjwLlhQH1/AB57XtHM5RV/i/I 4mIYoHPws8jv4gRf16fSNVuYbAtKaPaIK26jaqqxc/zzZnR5PGcykEAPI6SYN+6E WiZs3V7U/GXAis+9zeWqiLbU5FTboXCoIjjr6FEmXVCwSQSn89Ne04MWiugclJ3h XLkbVDxRWDNEZ2oWl7z/1xUoitUgl2dknT+SZAQrLfomFYsdGksRr6rIAD5uPsUq m94qJx9LiENL4tOb2ztTWFtlWwACwjj/MTsZqoKw75XwKZrqNSQpcFLMr63NTdrZ n5MOaGKodt0vPhtvHpwxwJhQfT/5ECzEWkxXjL+346zznIV5bV8Gx+jM2mYkNY+r UqiN86b71wSZ+gQn7mbSRSrIEk3X4W/hqBNgTY0t7kCM/1duJwSS+NH9JmFapPpu /W2B/ul30MD4DbGw7/Q= =kRAF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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TechCom Radar, 2018-03-07
by Kate Chapman 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * RFC Put on Last Call (closing on 2018-03-14 at 3pm PST (21:00 UTC, 22:00 CET)): Make some aspects of Tidy's whitespace stripping behavior part of wikitext parsing "spec" <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157418> * RFC Put on Last Call (closing on 2018-03-21 at 3pm PST (21:00 UTC, 22:00 CET)): Normalize change tag schema <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185355> * No RFC IRC Meeting on March 14 * Redis based refreshLinks jobs are switched to EventBus and now running exclusively from Kafka * Global preferences moving along, community tech waiting for change to table names 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/>. -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)

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2018-03-07 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-03-07 = 2018-03-07 = == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar>* - next up: Netherlands *2018-04-03 through 2018-05-01 * Collaboration is planning to move maps server testing from prod (on out-of-warranty hardware) into labs, tell us if that's a bad idea or if there's a catch * Performance: WebPageTest migration to Linux complete, dashboards need to be updated if they haven't been already. Reach out to Peter Hedenskog if you need help. * Performance: FOUC issue when autofocus is used on Firefox has been addressed, but fix won't be released until FF60 (expected on 8 May). (Has been reported to affect some Special pages, Roan also reported it.) ==Blockers== ==== iOS native app ==== ** No Joe :( Velocity is going to be reduced for a bit. ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: Wikidata on code review for description overrides https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000 ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: SRE on GlobalPreferences schema T184666 - quarterly goal ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked by: SRE on reviewing Flow dumps patch ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: RelEng on repos for Design subdomain https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/New_repositories/Requests & https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185282 == Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: ** No Joe :( Velocity is going to be reduced for a bit. * Blocking: * Updates: ** Bug fixing iOS reading list sync / finishing remaining sync UI bits ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Rolled out Reading List syncing to 10% of beta audience (~25000 users); Will continue to roll out to 50% then 100% in the next few days, assuming scalability looks good. ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Bug fixing to mobile web and page previews (in preparation for release to all wikis) *Quarterly goal dependency update: ** Increase learning by lowering the cost of exploration *** Reading Web/Performance ** Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption *** Reading Web: Tech Ops/RelEng ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: Wikidata on code review for description overrides https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000 * Blocking: * Updates: ** ===== Maps ===== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** 3D work nearly all complete - some cleanup and optimization that could be done later ** Search: Draft patch up, looking for feedback but not urgently ** Other SDC: Progressing, complicated code structure slightly impeding work, but nothing new and hopefully not for long Quarterly goal dependency update ** Prepare backend infrastructure for structured data search *** SDC: Search PF/Multimedia/Wikidata ** Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2017-18 Q3#Segment 2: Search integration and exposure *** SDC: Research/Multimedia ** Prepare backend infrastructure for structured data search *** SDC: Search PF/Multimedia/Wikidata === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: SRE on GlobalPreferences schema T184666 - quarterly goal * Blocking: * Updates: ** Lots of discussions with community around long edit summaries rollout, seems like drastic measures will be avoided. ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Tidy will be replaced on a bunch of wikis (~100 overall) next week - sent out an announcement on ambassadors and wikitech-l ** Last week's RFC hearing about https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157418 has been approved and will be announced for last call soon. WIP patches for both the PHP parser and Parsoid have been uploaded to gerrit. I have to update tests and verify they all pass before I take it out of WIP. But, I expect this to be ready for final review before the last call period ends. *Quarterly goal dependency update: ** Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team *** Parsing:Mediawiki PF/Services ** No new updates on these dependencies since last week's update ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked by: SRE on reviewing Flow dumps patch * Blocking: nobody * Updates: ** "Flow on your talk page" beta feature re-enabled after Roan fixed MCR bug ** Patch up for review that should fix Flow dumps, Ariel will review next week ** Planning to move maps server testing from prod into labs, tell us if that's a bad idea or if there's a catch ** IRC meeting today about change tags RFC ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Audiences Design === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** * Quarterly goal dependency update: ** Audiences DesignStandardise our user interfaces to match user expectation of quality from our products *** Audiences Design: Ops ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: RelEng on repos for Design subdomain https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/New_repositories/Requests & https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185282 * Blocking: * Updates: ** OOUI v0.25.3 released with 3 new features, 2 style improvements and 12 code fixes/amendments, among those: *** Toolbar items' focus is now aligned to widgets elsewhere https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188031 (Volker E.) *** demos: Use individual oojs-ui-* JS files for sourcemap support (Moriel Schottlender) *** Also preparation for v0.26.0 with currently aimed for unification of base font-size of OOUI's WikimediaUI theme in VE and MW core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97631 *** And refine icon set https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432 ** Style Guide *** Fixing technical debt, *** Bringing proper SVG implementation to it *** Overhauling imagery == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** * Quarterly goal dependency update: **Improve, adjust, or create features geared at the needs identified in New Editors research project. *** New Editors Experience:Analytics === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** More work on new API for main card processor ** blocking more PayPal fraud ** CentralNotice: ready to deploy EventLogging update ** Processing batch refunds for donors affected by confusing recurring toggle === MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: * StripState improvements to address out of memory errors in production (T187833), and general cleanup * Working to address memcached timeout errors (T187980) * A few bugs showed up related to the Actor table patch and were fixed. * MCR: ** Lots of code review ** Lots of design discussion * Comment table: ** WRITE_BOTH enabled everywhere! ** WRITE_NEW blocked on the follow up schema change (T187089) and on T181650. ** There was some displeasure on enwiki over longer edit summaries resulting in T188798 "Decreasing length of the edit summary (until UI issues are resolved)". * Progress on running tests with PHP 7.0 in CI (T144962) * utfnormal update and other ICU upgrade related patches (T188480) * SPDX 3.0 license identifier updates * LuaSandbox: fixed test failure in 32-bit mode, released new version (T188467) * Published aggregated pingback statistics using reportupdater and dashiki: https://pingback.wmflabs.org ** Will be announced after final tweaks ** Thanks, Analytics! * Preparing for EMWCon * FYI: Daren Welsh from NASA posted https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/5_Year_NASA_Wikiversary *Quarterly goal dependency update: ** Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team *** Parsing:Mediawiki PF/Services * Reduce product and technical debt to modernise our tools and technologies, and to make future changes more effective and efficient *** Parsing/Mediawiki PF **1.1 It is possible to store structured data within wiki pages, in particular on media file pages on Commons. We will enable the MediaWiki storage layer to correctly store and process structured data elements within wiki pages. *** SDC: Mediawiki PF/Wikidata ** no new updates on quarterly goal dependencies since last week === Performance === * Blocked by: **N/A * Blocking: **N/A * Updates: ** SRE raised concerns about mcrouter project, going back to the drawing board with an alternative called Dynomite. This puts our quarterly goal to have WANCache replicated between data centers at risk ** Enabling oversampling of performance metrics from Singapore this week, to support the new cache center there. ** Thumbor private wiki support being improved further ** WPT migration to Linux complete, dashboards need to be updated if they haven't been already ** FOUC issue when autofocus is used on Firefox has been addressed, but fix won't be released until FF60 (expected on 8 May). (Has been reported to affect some Special pages, Roan also reported it.) ** Coal update from last week was carried over to address some CR issues, should go out this week instead. === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** *Quarterly goal dependency update: ** Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption *** Reading Web: Tech Ops/RelEng ** Update: * === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: *Quarterly goal dependency update: ** Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2017-18 Q3#Segment 2: Search integration and exposure *** SDC: Research/Multimedia ** Update: * === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **Kafka poller for WDQS is in production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185951 ** Wikidata items appear in completion searches faster - merged: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183053 ** Started testing “query explorer” feature of LTR plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187148 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 ** Working on Serbian analyzer for ES: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183015 ** Discussing Lexeme search implementation: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Smalyshev_(WMF)/Lexeme_search *Quarterly goal dependency update: ** Prepare backend infrastructure for structured data search *** SDC: Search PF/Multimedia/Wikidata ** Update: * === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Services === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** All refreshLinks jobs processed on kafka queue *** Some backlogw created by the switch is being cleared now ** All cdnPurge jobs processed on kafka ** Next - switch cirrusSearch jobs === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** Collab on Flow dumps https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172025 *** Roan: not any more, we're blocked on you now * Blocking: ** None that we know of * Updates: ** All traffic cluster are now upgraded to Varnish 5 ** hardware refreshing ongoing ** A long standing ICMP issue traffic from Google was fixed finally last week. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165651#4017007 ** The Readings lists schema change has been completed by the Data Persistence SRE (sub)team *Quarterly goal dependency update: ** Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption *** Reading Web: Tech Ops/RelEng ** Update: It will not happen this quarter due to lack of time from Services and SRE teams per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187821#4018885 * ** Audiences DesignStandardise our user interfaces to match user expectation of quality from our products *** Audiences Design: Ops This is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185282 ** Update: This is not in SRE field currently, we are waiting for the code to be live in gerrit/phab repos * == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** *Quarterly goal dependency update: **1.1 It is possible to store structured data within wiki pages, in particular on media file pages on Commons. We will enable the MediaWiki storage layer to correctly store and process structured data elements within wiki pages. *** SDC: Mediawiki PF/Wikidata ** Update: * ** Prepare backend infrastructure for structured data search *** SDC: Search PF/Multimedia/Wikidata ** Update: * == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **please add links to Phab tickets that relate to quarterly goals

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LAST REMINDER: Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 Barcelona - 14 March
by Toni Hermoso Pulido 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hello everyone, We are getting close to maximum capacity for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona. This is the last week that we will be accepting registrations from anyone needing accommodation support (registration is already closed for Wikimedia Foundation staff and those requesting scholarships). The deadline for any additional registrations is Wednesday, 14 March. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/Register_and_Attend Please do not hesitate to mail hackathon(a)wikimedia.cat for any question!

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News about TLS 1.3
by Pine W 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

I'm no expert on TLS 1.3, but I thought that other folks on Wikitech-l might be interested in the industry news about the subject. The relevant WMF Phabricator task is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170567. Articles: * "An Overview of TLS 1.3 – Faster and More Secure": https://kinsta.com/blog/tls-1-3/ * "Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet": https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet/ * "Big banks want to weaken the internet’s underlying security protocol": https://www.cyberscoop.com/tls-1-3-weakness-financial-industry-ietf/. WMF employees who do advocacy work might be interested in this article, which is why I'm sending this email to WMF Legal. Regards, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Improvements to Page Previews
by Chris Koerner 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Hello, We wanted to take a moment to update you all about a reader-focused feature called Page Previews, which has also been popular as a Beta Feature among editors. [0] [1] The Readers web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on a few things we’d like to share. [2] Most recently we: * Deployed the new HTML endpoint for generating previews, leading to better rendering of preview content (math equations work, more predictable formatting of information in parentheses, etc.) [3] * Completed two A/B tests on English and German Wikipedias. [4] The results displayed a decrease in pageviews, but an overall increase in the number of pages readers interact with, indicating that they are more likely to explore a larger variety of topics when the feature is on. We also noted decreased usage of the back button and very low rates of disabling the feature. These experiments built on earlier qualitative and quantitive testing of the feature. [5] Other improvements: * Addressed and fixed many bugs [6] * Refactored the code (that's fancy developer-speak of restructuring the code to be more performant and stable) [7] * Made sure Page Previews do not interfere with the functionality of Navigation Popups ** As both can not be run simultaneously, users of Nav popups will need to disable the gadget in order to try out Page Previews. * Reviewed feedback from readers across the web [8] [9] [10] [11] If you haven’t already, you can enable the feature in your preferences under Appearance. [12] Feedback on how things are working for you is welcome. The HTML endpoint change was deployed just last week and we’re very excited to see the improvements. We’re expecting some smaller bugs and edge cases, so please let us know if you notice something out of order. You can find out more about the feature on MediaWiki.org. [13] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Page_Previews [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Team [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113094 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/2017-18_A/B_Tests [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews#Success_Metrics_and_Feature_Ev… [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/765/query/jJ.50s_0Xlq9/ [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149801 [8] https://twitter.com/torresromain/status/904357789006364673 [9] https://twitter.com/xtoq/status/903276948641771522 [10] https://twitter.com/lsinger/status/903170252636377088 [11] https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/80sybr/wikipedias_new_hoverhyp… [12] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering [13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Page_Previews Thank you, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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You can now translate Phabricator to your language
by Niklas Laxström 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

It's now possible to translate Phabricator in translatewiki.net thanks to the Phabricator developers, Mukunda Modell, and many others who participated in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225 We are currently in an experimental phase, where these translations are only used in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org, but the plan is to propose these translations to Phabricator upstream. A few languages are already available and the language setting can be changed at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings You can help our multilingual user base by translating Phabricator. You can find some more info about translating this project at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Phabricator, and you can start translating directly at https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=phabricator The whole Phabricator project is large, with over 17,000 strings to translate. Some simple and familiar strings can be found under the "Maniphest" and "Project" sub-groups. "Maniphest" includes strings for creating and searching tasks, and "Project" includes strings for managing project workboards with columns. Here are the direct links to them * https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=phabricator… * https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=phabricator… -Niklas

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Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

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Installing the MediaWiki Math extension is easier now
by Physikerwelt 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

In the past, administrators of MediaWiki installations faced a challenging installation procedure when they tried to enable rendering of mathematical formulae. As of February 22, no configuration or custom installation is required with the latest versions of MediaWiki core and the Math extension, if your wiki is connected to the internet. This is how it’s done: For wikis connected to the internet: Simply download the latest versions for both of Mediawiki core [1] and the Math extension [2] and that's it. The latest version can be obtained by selecting “master” in the extension distributor. For wikis not connected to the internet: Download the latest version of Mediawiki core [1] and the Math extension [2]. Install the node module mathoid [4]. We recommend using Node version 8 LTS [5], if node.js is not installed on the server. Mathoid can be installed to any location of your server that is accessible to the web server. For instance, in the location of the Math extension. After having installed and tested (e.g., by running npm test) the mathoid installation, point your MediaWiki to this location by adding the following config to your LocalSettings.php file: $wgMathoidCli = ['/srv/mathoid/cli.js', '-c', '/srv/mathoid/config.dev.yaml']; Replace /srv/mathoid with the location of your mathoid installation and run update.php [6]. If you have any issues with the installation, please file a phabricator ticket using the following link https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MediaWiki… Links and further reading: [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git [2] Documentation of the Math extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math** [3] Extension distributor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Math [4] Mathoid node package https://www.npmjs.com/package/mathoid [5] Node homepage https://nodejs.org/en/ [6] How to run the database update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Update.php Scientific Paper: Moritz Schubotz, Gabriel Wicke: Mathoid: Robust, Scalable, Fast and Accessible Math Rendering for Wikipedia. CICM 2014: 224-235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.6179.pdf Required versions: * For offline Math rendering MediaWiki core must include patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/399768/ ** The math extension must include patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/372100/ -- Moritz Schubotz Researcher isg.uni-konstanz.de/people/moritz-schubotz +49 1578 047 1397

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Replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis: Next round
by Subramanya Sastry 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Hello everyone, On behalf of the Parsing Team @ the WMF, I am announcing our plans to replace Tidy with Remex on the next set of wikis. On March 13th, we plan to turn off Tidy on about 100 wikis that have fewer than 25 issues in all high-priority linter categories [1]. On March 14th, we plan to turn off Tidy on mzn, ko, nl, war, ceb wikipedias [2]. Later in the month, probably March 20th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikiversities [3] and wikimedia chapter / user group wikis [4]. This step requires a bit more investigation to identify if all those wikis are ready for the switch. In February, we replaced Tidy on all wikinews wikis [5], private wikis [6], and a bunch of miscellaneous wikis [7]. Once we are done with this round in March, about 600 wikis on the wikimedia cluster would have had Tidy replaced. We plan to complete this switch on all wikis (about 900) by July 2018. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment on the associated phabricator tickets or leave a message on mw.org [8]. Thanks, Subbu. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188010 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188869 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188880 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188881 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188000 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188009 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188008 [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:Linter

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Women in the Wikimedia movement: Conversations with communities
by Maria Cruz 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Hi everyone, In honour of Women’s History Month, I will be coordinating a series of conversations with community members about Women in the Wikimedia movement <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>, and what their experience is like contributing to our projects. Our conversations will focus on women within three strategic areas of our work: Programs, Technical Spaces, and Leadership positions. Each conversation will have two community members presenting on their work, and 15-20 minutes at the end for conversation, follow up questions, and discussion. The goal of these discussions is to foster understanding of challenges and inequalities that women face throughout our movement, and to engage with our communities to help better address them. These conversations will be online events, streamed on our YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/c/WikimediaLearningandEvaluationCE>, and hosted on BlueJeans. If you would like to participate in these events, please add the event to your calendar, or sign up on wiki: - Women in Wikimedia programs: Thursday, March 8, 2018, 17:00 UTC (add to calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzNqdGxuNWttazNwMGZ…>) (sign up on wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…> ) Presenters: Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian in Residence) and Luisina Ferrante (Wikimedia Argentina education coordinator). - Women in leadership: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 19:00 UTC (add to calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGJqaXQzaTlmb3ZpMnJ…>) (sign up on wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…> ) Presenters: Mervat Salman (Wiki Arabia 2015 organizer) and Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska (CEE Spring coordinator, and Polish Wikipedia sysop) - Women in technical spaces: Wednesday, March 21st, 15:00 UTC (add to calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzFqMWV2YXZlc3VrYjJ…>) (sign up on wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…> ) Presenters: Josephine Lim (Mediawiki contributor) and Ciell (organizer of all-women hackathon in the Netherlands). If you find this conversation series interesting, I would greatly appreciate your support spreading the word. Please feel free to invite anyone you think might have something to add to the conversations. I look forward to seeing many of you online! Best, María *María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E Team \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_ <https://twitter.com/marianarra_>

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What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 March 2018)
by Pine W 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

There was thoughtful, robust, and civil conversations on Wikimedia-l last week about multiple topics including translation and Wikimedia's relationship with Facebook. Translation of Phabricator's interface is now possible. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225. Regex searches for the titles of articles will soon be possible. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156474. New stewards were elected. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2018. There were some interesting research reviews that were published in the February 28, 2018 Wikimedia Research Newsletter. See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/28/research-newsletter-february-2018/. Global preferences became available for beta testing. See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089562.html. WMF's new Deputy General Counsel was introduced on the Wikimedia Blog. See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/02/tony-sebro-deputy-general-counsel/. What's making you happy this week? Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-02-26
by Chris Koerner 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

Good day, I have a quick update from the Search Platform team this week. As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * We've added the possibility to do regex search on titles and it'll be in production (with documentation) once we reindex. [0] * Erik worked on various experiments with varying MLR training using hyperparameter — it ended up having only some minor optimizations when done [1] === Maps === * The Collaboration team will be improving maps with an engagement lasting until June 2018. [2] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156474 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186134 [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089564.html --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly 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 Wikimedia Foundation

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Readers Monthly update for February 2018
by Chris Koerner 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

Hello, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for February 2018. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Discussions== === Web === * TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task. [0] [1] [2] * An update to user preferences on mobile web was deployed. The feature allows users to better understand the settings - partially the Beta settings. [3] [4] === Reading Infrastructure === * Released /page/summary 1.3. While the version change sounds like a simple update it's a different implementation. Instead of TextExtracts it's using the lead paragraph from Parsoid and does some things to it to shorten it. There are also more fields. [5] For more details look at the spec. [6] This is used by the apps link previews and on the web by Page Previews. === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [7] === Multimedia === * The feature to upload 3D files to Commons has been deployed. [8] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176082 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:TemplateStyles [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Temp… [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089506.html [4] http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Settings [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/Summary/1.3.0 [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/API_Specification [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2018-February/007972.html --- Subscribe to receive theses updates as on-wiki notifications or opt-in email. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Readers_Monthly The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Status_updates Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2019: Looking for Proposals
by Rachel Farrand 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

*Hello!Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2019 Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for proposals! Details about the decision process can be found here: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2019_Decision_Process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2019_Decision_Process>- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_l… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_l…>Details about what it takes to organize a hackathon can be found here: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook>- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons>CHANGES FOR 2019 - We are open & encouraging to bids from anywhere, but locations outside of Europe will be given extra weight as we are also holding a hackathon at Wikimania in Sweden in 2019. - Focus areas will be defined much further in advance, however participants can work on whatever they like related to Wikimedia Tech / Development. - This hackathon will be less heavily focused on newcomer onboarding, which is much more effectively done on a smaller local level. Instead,it is meant to be a well-facilitated and organized meeting space for groups and most active volunteers in the developer community to collaborate face to face, with appropriate representation of Foundation, affiliates and volunteers to discuss the future of Wikimedia technologies in depth. We will still aim for newcomer support and onboarding for the local region where the event is held. Ideally we will announce the host for 2019 by the end of April. If multiple chapters or organizations are interested, we hope to work together to figure out the the best solution.Any organizations interested in hosting should please create a Phabricator ticket and associate it with the Developer-Relations project. Srishti and I are happy to assist in creating the ticket if needed.Examples: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162836 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162836>, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826>, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050>Include as much information as possible from: proposing a hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon>Please email me at rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> with any questions or concerns. The decision committee will comment directly on the Phabricator task if any questions come up. I am not on the chapters@ list, so if there is anything that I should respond to, make sure to keep me on CC. Also please forward this email anywhere you think it might be useful. Looking forward to hearing from you!* -- Rachel Farrand Events Program Manager Technical Collaboration Team Wikimedia Foundation

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How to get all the page titles of a category from wiktionary?
by Shrinivasan T 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

I was looking for a list of all Tamil nouns for long time. Found that wiktionary has a huge collection of all nouns. https://ta.wiktionary.org/s/30v this page lists 24,750 nouns and https://ta.wiktionary.org/s/4aa9 this page lists 60,553 nouns How can get all the page names using quarry service? I can not get all them using api as it has a limit of 500 for normal user and 5000 for bot user. Hope querry can be used for this. I need the list of page names in the category பெயர்ச்சொற்கள் in https://ta.wiktionary.org Please help on this. Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com

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codesearch might have returned incorrect results in the past 2ish days
by Kunal Mehta 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi, For about the past two days codesearch.wmflabs.org ran out of disk space[1] and has been not searching some repositories[2]. This has been fixed now, thanks to bd808 and others in #wikimedia-cloud for their help :) People who were looking for things they knew existed noticed and filed bugs (thanks!) but if you were looking to check if something was unused, you might want to double check your search again. [1] Specifically, it ran out of inodes, which took a few days to figure out. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188477 - -- Legoktm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJLBAEBCgA1FiEE+h6fmkHn9DUCyl1jUvyOe+23/KIFAlqY5BkXHGxlZ29rdG1A bWVtYmVyLmZzZi5vcmcACgkQUvyOe+23/KISlA//VlEp50AOWboE97+YTCoeVhiQ 3AMIYe9W36UAb7XGWJemXhlDxtnnM2+kX7Kjrd2GqBY3PuDf7vxYGD4skb3zzMyL Qdt9qWeXQK7yDdErjrRPTUBZY5J9iAxf8v/FzluLWZfVLk7+fYgQNxFl2W9IDGgg v8YMNxbhfhBAPyQ4+XXUZ1+Cm1R+e/gL0yyLnMuqxbKxqyk/52e+GXYz4PQ28doD x2NdznOSJXqpTOoTzmQvUd1hbZ0bK1ExeB8Dv9rfNy+93ZZRHNl2dmDL3CHl4+2T fF8OKcKvEydInWalBmgBZiLhjdOq3rZl0oEq+rAMuu8YEIf0ctfnOFRE2cEK4tQr YrzmRSfEQtJjZGSye5Th6O+SBq+jKQv/cD4G50S0aRfLshX13TdOR6fp6FN/8HSm NeBDkEVrf3ReWJvDkGs96fD0AumEp+6cEOKkEcv6pYaxgEXUY5VBo9XkKO3fKiCM v+3MRsUl2dVCCd80KPAEI/S1eEVB5g32JGsMKP8d8sTud7NRLuuLLMo2JCKY6P0j IyWGQGNGgwWyeA2pMSsICQ5+kWRSUpcElXKh9tnCAfKcyNDrbBIEKUai4FjiwyZd QnMzQSv+UBFEd6JUOWyWKG6rM/7Wb/MbqZpr4qgFHWV/RnYpGX7ZPMqnXllSDNH/ aPYkcCXD63pFgIbNpuo= =m+Kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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TechCom Radar, 2018-02-28
by Kate Chapman 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's meeting: * RFC IRC Meeting: Make some aspects of Tidy's whitespace stripping behavior part of wikitext parsing "spec" <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157418> Meeting Minutes: <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.20…> * RFC IRC Meeting 2018-03-07 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET): Normalize change tag schema <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185355> * RFC Discussed and Declined as not needed at this time: RFC associated user accounts <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188197> * Actor table merged and available in Mediawiki core: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167246> * Refactor of profiler code in beta: Profiling for X-Wikimedia-Debug seems to start fairly late <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180183> * Singapore/Eqsin data center coming online * Request from Legal to collaborate on a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT). If anybody has familiarity with creating a VPAT, please reach out to Cindy Cicalese 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/>. -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)

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1.31.0-wmf.23 MediaWiki train rollback
by Tyler Cipriani 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Hi all! Wednesday Train update: we're currently running 1.31.0-wmf.23 on group0 only, so we're a day behind schedule. I decided to rollback based on a particularly noisy notice[0]. The right folks are already aware and working on it (thanks all!). Reminder that we have a task for each train rollout to track (potential) blockers[1]. You can follow that task to track future progress. Additional reminder that you can use the "Wikimedia MediaWiki versions"[2] tool on Toolforge to know which wikis have which version at any time. Choo Choo, -- Tyler [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188555> [1]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183962> [2]. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/>

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