Hello,
Due to unavoidable reasons, we have had to move this online session to next
week, on 28th March 2018. The time will be same i.e. 1300 UTC. I will send
a reminder ahead of the session. Meanwhile, please see the original
announcement below for other details.
Thanks, and apologies for this last minute change.
regards
Runa
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Runa Bhattacharjee <
rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> [x-posted announcement]
>
> Hello,
>
> Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team would like to invite you for an
> online office hour session scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at
> 13:00 UTC. This will be an open session to talk about our work, and in
> particular the changes to interlanguage links, which were recently
> rolled-out on the English Wikipedia.
>
> The new option shows a list of up to 9 languages instead of a long list
> that can have more than 200 items, and a panel with all the links that can
> be looked up in any language using a search box. The purpose of this
> feature is to make articles in all languages easier to find. We recently
> published a blog post about this feature and the thoughts behind the
> development:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/08/compact-language-links-launch.
>
> This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
> Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
> limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
> are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
> join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
> the session.
>
> Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
> session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you
> Runa
>
> == Details ==
>
> # Event: Wikimedia Foundation Language office hour session
>
> # When: March 21st, 2018 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180321T1300)
>
> # Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcL6zVcTA
>
>
> # Agenda:
> Discussion about Compact Language Links, and Q & A.
>
>
> --
> Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 27 March 2018 at 19:24
Subject: [Ops] new deployment server (tin -> deploy)
To: Operations Engineers <ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
good old tin.eqiad.wmnet was out of warranty and running jessie,
so as part of our hardware refresh goal it had to be replaced by something
new.
We now have deploy1001.eqiad.wmnet and it's running on stretch with PHP7
and we just switched deployment servers and Mukunda is running the first
deploy from it as we speak.
<+logmsgbot> !log twentyafterfour@deploy1001 Started scap: Deploy
1.31.0-wmf.27 to test wikis
Here are the related puppet changes that switched it and added stretch
support:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:operations/
puppet+branch:production+topic:deploy1001
Additionally mwscript needed a way to detect php5 or php7, for that see:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/422348/
There are also more details on today's SAL and on:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175288
tin has not been killed yet and for now remains a scap master, just in case.
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Greetings!
We are beginning the process of working on the 1.31 release of MediaWiki.
The release is currently scheduled for June. We plan to create the REL1_31
branch on April 17 and to generate the first release candidate, so we will
be requesting "pencils down" on April 16.
In the meantime, if you have any open Phabricator tasks tagged with
mw-1.31-release [0], please check to see if they are indeed blockers for
the release. If not, please remove the mw-1.31-release tag from them.
Conversely, if there are any blockers that are not tagged with
mw-1.31.release, please tag them. Please feel free to reach out to me if
you have any questions about this.
We will be in the normal patch master + backport process from April 17
until the release in June.
Thanks,
Cindy
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.31-release/
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Product Manager, MediaWiki Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
FYI: tomorrow much of our CI tests will not run due to a planned
Wikimedia Cloud reboot.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Greg
----- Forwarded message from Andrew Bogott <abogott(a)wikimedia.org> -----
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:34:55 -0500
> From: Andrew Bogott <abogott(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Brief service interruption tomorrow 2018-03-28 at 15:00 UTC
> Reply-To: cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> About 24 hours from now we're going to reboot a couple of servers[1] in the
> cloud infrastructure to apply security updates.
>
> Few WMCS users (and, in particular, no tools users) should notice any
> interruption. Nonetheless, a few services will be down:
>
>
> - New instance creation will fail
>
> - CI tests will stop running
>
> - Horizon and Wikitech may display incorrect or missing information
>
>
> Apologies in advance for any inconvenience!
>
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> [1] labservices1001 and labcontrol1001
>
>
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Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 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)
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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.
Forwarding to Wikitech-l for the benefit of Wikitech-l subscribers who do
not subscribe to Wikimedia-l.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gregory Varnum <gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 6:57 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about problem identified with a recent
CentralNotice banner
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On 14 March and 15 March 2018, a CentralNotice banner appeared to some
logged-out users viewing English Wikipedia pages. The banner contained
JavaScript hosted by Facebook, which allowed Facebook to collect traffic
data from those who visited a page with a banner. The banner was prepared
by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Foundation turned the banner off as soon
as we learned how the script was running, and its potential scope. We have
also removed all references to the code in question from CentralNotice on
Meta-Wiki.
The code utilized in this banner was based on an unused prototype created
by an outside vendor. Because the prototype was never enabled, the vendor’s
prototype code was not subjected to our standard quality assurance process.
However, we made the mistake of reusing the code for a different purpose,
and implementing it based on recommendations in documentation from Twitter
and Facebook to improve the appearance of shared links. At the time, our
understanding was that the platforms would only receive traffic data if the
user clicked on the link. Although this was true for Twitter, the Facebook
code operated differently.
We discovered the problematic link configurations during our ongoing
monitoring of live banners. The recommended code enhanced not only the
appearance of links, it also enhanced Facebook's ability to collect
information on people visiting non-Facebook sites. As soon as we realized
these banners were sharing information without even having to click the
link, we disabled them and began an investigation. Staff in multiple
departments are collaboratively reviewing the incident as well as
procedural and technical improvements to prevent future incidents.
While this sort of tracking is commonplace today across most of the
internet, it is not consistent with our policies. We are disappointed that
this type of hidden data collection is routinely recommended by major
platforms, without clearer disclosure.
These practices are why we all must regularly take routine steps to
maintain a secure computer and account. As the Wikimedia Foundation
continues to explore ways we can do that within Wikimedia's platform, we
encourage you to consider tools which block unwanted third-party scripts
like the one provided by Facebook.
We apologize for sending this late on a Friday (San Francisco time).
However, we wanted to provide this information as quickly as possible.
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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 April 4th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikiquotes (except
frwikiquote) [1] and wikimedia wikis [2]. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with < 50 entries
in all high priority linter categories [3]. About 60 wikis will have
Tidy replaced.
Please follow T175706 [4] to monitor progress of Tidy replacement.
Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300
wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by
end of June 2018.
If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment on the
associated phabricator tickets or leave a message on mw.org [5].
Thanks,
Subbu.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188881
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190726
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190731
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175706
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:Linter
TL;DR see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179461> for a proposed
naming change.
I proposed in Phabricator a wile ago [0] that we adopt the term
"Wikimedia developer account" across our wikis and other documentation
for the LDAP-backed user accounts that are created using
wikitech.wikimedia.org.
These same sign-on credentials are used for:
* wikitech.wikimedia.org
* Gerrit
* Phabricator (optionally)
* toolsadmin.wikimedia.org
* horizon.wikimedia.org
* ssh-based "shell access" to Toolforge and Cloud VPS servers
* a variety of web services providing access to operational and
analytics data related to the Wikimedia services
There are plans [1][2] in various stages of progress to change things
about how developer accounts are created and managed. Breaking
assumptions in our documentation about the back-end storage system
(LDAP) and the front-end management interface (wikitech) will help
make these changes less disruptive. It also helps remove another
lingering "labs" reference that the Cloud Services rebranding efforts
have been trying to address.
This change probably has almost no impact on existing technical
community members. It is really just targeted at making things a bit
less confusing for newcomers.
If you have thoughts or concerns about this proposal, please describe
them on the Phabricator task [0]. I'm proposing that on or about March
23rd (4 weeks from the date of this message) the comments on the task
will be evaluated for consensus and an approve/deny decision.
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179461
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161859
[2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179463
Thanks,
Bryan
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