Wikitech-l June 2018

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

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) -- 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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+2 nomination for Jakob in mediawiki/*
by Addshore 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Hi, I've filed <*https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195220 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195220>*>, nominating Jakob for +2 in mediawiki/ repos. -- Addshore

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TechCom Radar 2018-05-30
by Kate Chapman 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * TechCom will be announcing a call for nominations to expand the committee next week * Discussion and community input on MediaWiki Platform Architecture Principles Document continues: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/MediaWiki_Plat…> * Public IRC Discussion of RFC next week 2018-06-06 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET): Use ar_page_id to determine the parent IDs for undeleted revisions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193690> 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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Readers Monthly update for May 2018
by Chris Koerner 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Hello again, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for May 2018. ==Discussions== === Apps=== * iOS and Android teams both published incremental updates to address issues with new Reading Lists. [0] === Web === * Continuing work on the mobile page issues project [1] * Preparing for the deployment of our new PDF renderer [2] * Team was way at offsite and hackathon - discussing plans for next year === Reading Infrastructure === * Published Wikipedia Reading List browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.[3] Safari extension to follow hopefully soon, but dealing with a cookie issue when "keep me logged in" is not used. * Updated various APIs (action=mobileview, /page/summary, /page/mobile-sections) to provide locally overwritten descriptions vs. the centrally stored ones in Wikidata. [4] [5] These were follow-ups to T192838. [6] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [7] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181084 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Apps/Reading_list_bro… [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192837 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191869 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192838 [7] 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 2018-05-28
by Chris Koerner 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Hello, We're back! Here is our post Hackathon update this week from the Search Platform team. As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * Erik worked on evaluating and building out features provided by `query_explorer` functionality of learning-to-rank plugin, there is lots of good info in the ticket [0] * David worked on allowing searches with "all:" keyword to also work on non-English projects, and not only with its translations ("searchall") [1] * David increased the cirrus indices to have more shards for enwiki_general, viwiki_general and wikidatawiki_content [2] * David reverted an earlier patch that had depreciated the global namespace handling of the prefix keyword; the new patch was deployed — prefix and associated InputBox forms should work as before. [3] * Trey and Gehel deployed the updated search/extra plugin and search/extra-analysis-slovak plugin with Slovak Stemmer [4] and will be available after a re-indexing [5] * Stas enabled deep category support on all wikis (except private) [6] * Stas reindexed wikidata to enable support for searching for string & external ID property values [7], [8] * Stas implemented basic text indexing for Lexemes [9] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187148#4086754 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165110 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192064 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193392 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191543 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191545 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194260 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163642 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99899 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195912 --- 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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function drawmap not defined when loading external js with resourceLoader
by Tom Schulze 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Hello everyone, I have created a public gist <https://gist.github.com/tomschulze/afdda960b8c63a3fde0db6cb2ceea0ae> with a minimal working example. I am trying to put JavaScript Code from a Widget to an external JS file and load it dynamically with the ResourceLoader. However, the developer console returns the following error: jQuery.Deferred exception: drawmap is not defined when I am accessing the function defined in the external script. Checking the state in the developer console with 'mw.loader.getState("ext.iswiki.display_project_map")' returns: "ready". When the Resource Loader debug mode is enabled in LocalSettings.php the function is found and called. What am I doing wrong? Kind regards, Tom

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Planet Wikimedia using new software "rawdog"
by Daniel Zahn 03 Jun '18

03 Jun '18

Hi, this is an announcement to let you know that the service ($lang). planet.wikimedia.org, an RSS feed aggregator for all Wikimedia related blogs, has switched software. You can find the English version at https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ Other existing languages are listed on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet.wikimedia.org#Which_languages_ex… ? Today we moved away from planet-venus and to a newer package called "rawdog" that does the same thing as before, fetching a bunch of RSS feed and combining them into a single page and feed. The reason is that planet-venus has been dropped in Debian stable (stretch) because it was unmaintained, so we had to find an alternative to be able to upgrade the underlying servers to a current OS version. If you never heard of planet, here you can find more info: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet.wikimedia.org If you already use it but just subscribe to the "feed of feeds" then nothing should change for you. (Though note that we support RSS 2.0 but not a separate Atom feed anymore. We are redirecting the old atom.xml URL to the new (and old) URL rss20.xml.) If you already use it and look at the web UI, enjoy the new theme that Paladox imported from KDE to make it look about 150% better than before. (thanks to him for that theming work!) We also applied patches to make it look more like our former planet for a smooth transition. A "wmf1" package has been built and uploaded at https://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pool/main/r/rawdog/ If you want to know more about "rawdog": https://offog.org/code/rawdog/ https://packages.debian.org/stretch/rawdog If you want to add your blog feed, feel free to upload changes or just drop me a mail. Bugs can be reported here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/413/ Tickets are: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180498 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168490 Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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Changes to Special:OAuth URL in some languages
by Gergo Tisza 03 Jun '18

03 Jun '18

A few languages (ar, arz, ko, lrc, ur) have localized the special page name "OAuth", which means that in these languages requests to Special:OAuth result in redirects. This breaks OAuth-signed requests to Special:OAuth/identify, unless they use the localized name, and in general developers shouldn't be expected to be aware of that. To reduce confusion, starting next week special page name localization will be disabled for Special:OAuth when the request is OAuth-signed, which means that sending requests to Special:OAuth/identify will always work, and sending requests to localized versions (such as 특수:MWO인증/identify on kowiki) will stop working. If you have been doing the latter, you need to update your code.

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Wat maak jou gelukkig hierdie week? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 3 June 2018)
by Pine W 03 Jun '18

03 Jun '18

* From the WMF blog: "Annual Wikimedia conference “Wikimania” to make debut in Sub-Saharan Africa <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/05/31/wikimania-cape-town-announcement/>" * A few weeks ago, the WMF Audiences Department published its Q3 check-in slides and notes <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-May/089989.html>. I read a portion of these. I'm grateful to Audiences in general and Toby in particular for regularly publishing this information, and I would encourage other WMF departments to do the same. * New filters for edit review <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edi…> are likely to be deployed to production in the next few months <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-May/090034.html>. * WMDE's Technical Wishes Team announced <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-May/090032.html> the deployment of an update to diff views <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Show_text_changes_whe…> to most wikis. 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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Building tools, services and datasets that respect deleted and suppressed revisions
by Lucas Dixon 03 Jun '18

03 Jun '18

Hello, Yiqing (cc'd) and I have been working on tools and corpora that transform wiki revision dumps into structured conversations; as part of this, we want to make sure any down-stream services and corpora that we develop respect the deleted (and suppressed) revisions; namely that we remove any copies we have of things deleted on Wikipedia. For that we need a way to: 1. get all revisions IDs that were deleted or suppressed (or all non-deleted and non-suppressed ones) 2. have a way to get new deletions or suppressions so that we can remove any copies that we have. What's the right infrastructure/APIs to use for this? Thanks! lucas

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