Wikitech-l April 2018

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **the day after 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) -- 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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Apa yang membuat Anda bahagia minggu ini? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 29 April 2018)
by Pine W 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

*Plans for lexicographical data on Wikidata* The first version of lexicographical data on Wikidata is planned <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Lexicographical_d…> for the end of May 2018. "Lexicographical data can be reused on the Wikimedia projects, and can provide support for Wiktionary." *From the WMF Blog*: * "After hitting 300,000 translations, what’s next for our content translation tool? <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/23/content-translation-whats-next/>" * "How a new data center in Singapore is helping people access Wikipedia around the globe <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/24/new-data-center-singapore/>" *Regional Wikimedia conference for the E* *ast, Southeast Asia, and Pacific* ESEAP Conference 2018 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2018> is the first Wikimedia regional conference for the communities in that area. This year's conference will be in Indonesia, starting on 5 May 2018. People from Australia, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam plan to attend. *Gone fishing* Common kingfishers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_kingfisher> (*Alcedo atthis*) in Slovakia are featured in this <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_kingfisher_(Alcedo_atthis)_i…> Media of the Day on Commons. The videographer used a 35mm sensor camcorder with a 150-600mm lens and a 2x teleconverter. 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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Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces - Code of Conduct Committee - 2018.II members
by Sébastien Santoro 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

Hello all, The candidate slates has been deemed finalized. Thanks to the new candidates joining the committee to support this important mission, sustaining our code of conduct. We didn't receive a lot of candidatures this session, so we'd like to ask you to think for the next months if you would like to serve in the 2019 half I committee, and to be ready in October to join the boat. [ Candidates URL ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Candidates/2018-I This page will be moved to the members page when the new committee will enter in function after a training period for new members. [ Procedure ] We haven't received any feedback to techconduct (at) twikimedia.org related to one or another candidate. In addition to the procedure the Code of Conduct provides, we also received additional comments at [[mw:Talk:Code of Conduct/Committee/Candidates/2018-I]] and consider these comments party addressed and partly to solve in the next weeks, and unrelated to the current candidates. -- Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson http://www.dereckson.be/

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Changes to SWAT deployment policies, effective Monday April 30th
by Greg Grossmeier 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

Hello, I have made two changes to SWAT policies today. First, we now disallow multi-sync patch deployments. See T187761[0]. This means that the sync order of files is determined by git commit parent relationships (or Gerrit's "depends-on"). This is to prevent SWAT deployers from accidentally syncing two patches in the wrong order. Second, we are reducing the number of allowed patches from 8 to 4. This is to reduce stress on the SWAT deployer as well as set expectations for requesters on the pace of the windows. See the approximate best case time spent breakdown[1] for how we came to this number. I've updated the on-wiki documentation on wikitech[2][3]. Thank you for flying scap, Greg [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187761 [1] * +2/Wait for Jenkins to merge - 2 min * prepare git on tin - 1 min * Deploy to mwdebug - 1 min * Verify on mwdebug - 3 min * Deploy to production - 1 min * Verify & wait/watch logs - 2 min [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=SWAT_deploys&diff=prev&old… [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=SWAT_deploys&diff=next&old… -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | Release Team Manager A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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"PHP test coverage decreased" - really?
by Daniel Kinzler 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Hi all! While I think it's great that CI is making sure that test coverage improves, I'm struggeling with making this work for me. It seems to me the stats that are used to detect test coverage are faulty, or at least unintuitive. See for instance <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/423146/10>. Please explain to me how this decreases test coverage <https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mediawiki-phpunit-coverage-patch/2…>. What am I missing? As far as I can see, all new code has tests. I'm having similar issues with several of my patches. Also, am I correct in thinking that I could introduce a completely new 1000 line class with no tests, and that would *not* be detected as decreasing coverage, since the new class didn't have any coverage before?.... -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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GSoC 2018 Introduction (Yashdeep Thorat)
by Yashdeep Thorat 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Hello everyone! I am Yashdeep Thorat, I am an undergraduate student at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India. I will be working on adding a spreadsheet interface to the Page Forms extension which will allow administrators of a wiki to edit multiple pages at once. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189743 I will be working under the mentorship of Yaron Koren, Nischay Nahata and Balakarthikeyan Rajan. I am really exited to work on this project and would love to interact with the members of this community. Best Regards, Yashdeep Thorat

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Map internationalization beat: more on how our maps work with OSM data
by Joe Matazzoni 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

Following up on yesterday’s announcement encouraging people to try out internationalized maps on testwiki [1], I added more information today [2] about how the feature works. In particular, in yesterday’s post we introduced the new map parameter and value, lang=“local”, which causes a map to display in the language of the territory mapped—essentially turning off internationalization and reverting to the current (soon to be former) map behavior, which displays maps only in the language(s) of the territory mapped. The new post dives into the OpenStreetMap data quirks that make a such a feature necessary and explains when you might want to use it. So if you’re interested in wiki maps, have a look. You can see the internationalization features in action on a sample page I put on testwiki [3]. And please remember to leave your feedback on the Map Improvements 2018 talk page [4]. We’re listening! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_25,_2018,_You_ca… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_25,_2018,_You_ca…> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_26,_2018:_OSM_na… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_26,_2018:_OSM_na…> [3] https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples <https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018> _____________________ Joe Matazzoni Product Manager, Collaboration Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge."

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Techcom Radar 2018-04-25
by Kate Chapman 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hi All, Below are the minutes of this week's TechCom meeting: * RFC IRC Meeting on 2018-05-02 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET): Colorable SVG <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106240> * Private wiki jobs were switched to new EventBus system. * Page previews for English Wikipedia released * RelEng could use some help to get rebuildLocalisationCache.php back up-to-normal speed -- if you have experience with hhvm internals/cli-options: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191921> 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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GSoC 2018 Introduction
by Rosalie Perside 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hello all, I am Perside Rosalie student at the University of Buea-Cameroon studying computer engineering and one of the accepted students for GSoC 2018. I will work on the Emoji Twitter bot for Commons images from NYPL fork <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190163>. I hope to get in touch with a lot of community members, encourage volunteers from my community and as well learn a lot from this project. Best Regards, Rosalie

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Maps in the language of your choice— try it out now on testwiki
by Joe Matazzoni 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

You can now display maps in languages of your choice on testwiki. I made two pages to demonstrate the new features, on testwiki [1] and testwiki2 [2] (embedded maps on test2 are dynamic; those on test are static until you click to pop up an enlargement). By default, internationalized maps display in the language of the wiki (which is English for the testwikis). So to experiment with these features, you’ll want to use the two new mapframe parameters we’ve added. Just insert them into your mapframe code. lang=”xx” Shows map labels in the language you specify with the short language codes used for each wiki. lang=“local” Shows map labels in the languages of the territory mapped (essentially opting out of internationalization). Right now, internationalization works only with mapframe, not maplink (which should be working some time next week). You can read more about this new feature and how to use it on the Map Improvements 2018 project page, under Updates [3]. Our plan is to wait a week or two and assess user comments about the feature. At that point, we’ll decide whether to move forward with a general release or keep making fixes. So please try the new features out and leave feedback on the Map Improvements 2018 talk page [4] . We’re listening! Yours, Joe [1] https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples <https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples> [2] https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples <https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#Project_Updates <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#Project_Updates> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018> _____________________ Joe Matazzoni Product Manager, Collaboration Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge."

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