Wikitech-l April 2018

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

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New DB_REPLICA constant; DB_SLAVE deprecated
by Aaron Schulz 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

As of 950cf6016c, the mediawiki/core repo was updated to use DB_REPLICA instead of DB_SLAVE, with the old constant left as an alias. This is part of a string of commits that cleaned up the mixed use of "replica" and "slave" by sticking to the former. Extensions have not been mass converted. Please use the new constant in any new code. The word "replica" is a bit more indicative of a broader range of DB setups*, is used by a range of large companies**, and is more neutral in connotations. Drupal and Django made similar updates (even replacing the word "master"): * https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 * https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692/files & https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a023… I don't plan on doing anything to DB_MASTER, since it seems fine by itself, like "master copy", "master tape" or "master key". This is analogous to a master RDBMs database. Even multi-master RDBMs systems tend to have a stronger consistency than classic RDBMs slave servers, and present themselves as one logical "master" or "authoritative" copy. Even in it's personified form, a "master" database can readily be thought of as analogous to "controller", "governer", "ruler", lead "officer", or such.** * clusters using two-phase commit, galera using certification-based replication, multi-master circular replication, ect... ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Appropriateness_of_… *** http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium… -- -Aaron

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Life hack: Working with production content in your local wiki
by Jon Robson 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

I've been meaning to document this for a while. If you're finding yourself visiting Special:Export/Import often for the purpose of MediaWiki development there is a much better way to get content into your local wiki for testing purposes. This short video explains how MobileFrontend extension provides tooling to help you debug live on-wiki content via $wgMFContentProviderClass [1] https://youtu.be/uRQzjN0hBlY Hope it saves someone lots of time! [1] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/maste… -- Jon Robson Senior Software Engineer

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Roadmap for CX?
by Strainu 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Following the recent outage, we've had a new series of complaints about the lack of improvements in CX, especially related to server-side activities like saving/publishing pages. Now, I know the team is involved in a long-term effort to merge the editor with the VE, but is there an end in sight for that effort? Can I tell people who ask "look, 6 more months then we'll have a much better translation tool"? Is there a publicly available roadmap for this project and more generally, for CX? Thanks, Strainu

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Introducing Quibble, a test runner for MediaWiki
by Antoine Musso 08 May '18

08 May '18

Hello, Running all tests for MediaWiki and matching what CI/Jenkins is running has been a constant challenge for everyone, myself included. Today I am introducing Quibble, a python script that clone MediaWiki, set it up and run test commands. It is a follow up to the Vienna Hackathon in 2017. We had a lot of discussion to make the CI jobs reproducible on a local machine and to unify the logic at a single place. Today, I have added a few jobs to mediawiki/core. An immediate advantage is that they run in Docker containers and will start running as soon as an execution slot is available. That will be faster than the old jobs (suffixed with -jessie) that had to wait for a virtual machine to be made available. A second advantage, is one can exactly reproduce the build on a local computer and even hack code for a fix up. The setup guide is available from the source repository (integration/quibble.git): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/integration/quibble/ The minimal example would be: git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/integration/quibble cd quibble python3 -m pip install -e . quibble A few more details are available in this post on the QA list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2018-April/002699.html Please give it a try and send issues, support requests to Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/quibble/ Next week I will polish up support for MediaWiki extensions and skins and eventually Quibble will take over most of the CI jobs running for MediaWiki related projects. -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)
by Pine W 03 May '18

03 May '18

*"To be, or not to be"* A phrase from Shakespeare's *Hamlet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet> *is "To be, or not to be, that is the question"*.* Chris Koerner from WMF Discovery published some interesting information about the verb "to be", and how on-wiki search deals with it, in this issue <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2018-April/001652.html> of the *Discovery Weekly Update*: "The English verb "to be" is kind of weird—the infinitive "be" and participles "being, been" start with "b-", while the preterite forms "was, were" start with "w-", and the present forms "am, is, are" start with vowels. The conjugations originally come from three or four different verbs! Why "three or four"? Wiktionary disagrees with itself a bit, listing four on the etymology of "is" [5] and three on the etymology of "be". [6] The conflation goes back at least to Proto-Germanic, [7] so German is similarly weird. [8] Dutch has a greatly simplified paradigm, but still shows some trace of the multiple sources. [9] Other languages, including ASL, Arabic, Bengali, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian at least partly avoid this mess by having a zero copula. [10] For search on-wiki, we deal with this problem in part with stemming [11] and stop words. [12] "[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/is#Etymology_1 [6] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be#Etymology [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language [8] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sein#Conjugation [9] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zijn#Inflection [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words" *Legal case ends well for Greek Wikipedia administrator*From the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/greece-legal-case-ended/ *Photos from the 2018 Wikimedia Conference in Germany* Some photos of the 2018 Wikimedia Conference are available on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Conference_2018>. Here are a few: * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ Conference_2018,_Group_photo.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ Conference_2018_by_ZUFAr_01.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_Sweets_Table_1.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_by_Rehman_-_Posters_(2).jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Conference_2018_%E2%80%93… What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Readers Monthly update for April 2018
by Chris Koerner 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Hello again, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for April 2018. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Highlights== * Synced Reading Lists are now available on both Android and iOS. [0] === Apps=== * ''Android -'' Synced reading lists are now available on Android! [1] [2] This has been one of the most consistently requested app features, and the team is delighted to be able to bring it to you. A browser extension is in the works to allow you to add articles to your reading lists from the web. We'll announce in the app when it's ready. * ''iOS'' - Guess what? When we said syncing we meant across platforms too! iOS also released syncing reading lists, brining folders, search and sort to our Saved pages, and letting you sync across to Android. [3] === Web === * Page Previews were enabled by default for logged-out users on English and German Wikipedia. [4] The feature is now deployed to all Wikipedia projects for logged-out users. Logged-in users can enable the feature in their Preferences. [5] [6] [7] [8] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [9] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en_GB [2] https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/ [3] https://itunes.apple.com/app/wikipedia/id324715238 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews [6] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/how-we-designed-page-previews-for-wik… [7] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-time-to-build-that… [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/93/extension_popups_page_… [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates --- 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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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-04-16
by Chris Koerner 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Here is another update from the Search Platform team. This one includes the week of 2018-04-16 and 2018-04-23 As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Highlights== * The Search team is looking for a volunteer to help with this easy ticket: T192458 Enable search result ranking in MySQL full text search. [0] == Discussions == === Search === * Serbian-language wikis have been updated with a new language analyzer for search that does some stemming (so that related forms of a word can find each other) and handles the transliteration between the Serbian Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, which are both used in Serbian. [1] *...and work on the plugin and re-indexing the wikis to allow the new Serbian alphabets to be used is also done [2] [3] [4] * Stas fixed some bugs for deep category search [5] [6] * Completion search for Lexemes merged [7] * Fixed some indexing errors [8] * Cirrus profile management has been updated to provide a standard way to override profile content [9] * Fixed issues with ElasticSearch latency alerts on ~15 wikis that had the issue [10] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192458 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_language#Writing_system [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189239 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183015 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189265 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192270 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188350 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190970 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192609 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191876 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191236 --- 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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