Wikitech-l July 2018

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TechCom Radar 2018-07-04
by Kate Chapman 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * RFC Approved: Provide standard-compatible way to load multi-file packages (not plain concatenation) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133462> * RFC meeting on IRC 2018-07-11 in : Unify various deletion systems <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20493> * Discussed potential new RFC and determined did not need to be a RFC at this time: RFC: Introduce "unpatrol" feature <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198809> * New RFC discussed and IRC meeting will be scheduled soon: RFC: Modern Event Platform - Choose Schema Tech <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198256> 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/>. If you prefer you can subscribe to our newsletter here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:TechCom_Radar> Thanks, Kate -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)

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Page Previews configuration change for new accounts
by Chris Koerner 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Hi all, We wanted to let you know about some planned changes to the configuration of Page Previews for newly created accounts.[0] Currently, the feature is off by default for all logged-in users and on by default for all logged-out users. When people create an account, the feature will appear to vanish which would be confusing. We plan to change this configuration and enable the feature for all new accounts. [1] For current logged-in users, there will be no changes to the current configuration. If you have the feature off, it will stay off. If you have it on, it will stay on. If there are no major concerns raised, we plan on making these changes sometime in early July, 2018. [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197719 Yours, Chris Koerner Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Patchsets by new Gerrit contributors waiting for code review and/or merge
by Andre Klapper 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

CR0: Please review and provide guidance if you are familiar with the code, and decide (CR±1 or CR±2): * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/164049/ ** Add Tatar LanguageConverter ** 2018-May-24 ** Maintainers/Stewards: Contributors > Parsing team CR+1: Please help make a decision (CR±1, CR±2) on these CR+1 patches: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/ApprovedRevs/+/4340… ** Add support for custom content types other than WikitextContent ** 2018-Jun-17 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/428129/ ** Fix the bug for dates between 1912 and 1941 in Thai language ** 2018-Jun-13 ** Maintainers/Stewards: Contributors > Global Collaboration team ? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/services/mobileapps/+/441517/ ** Metadata: Adds per-variant display_title ** 2018-Jun-25 ** Maintainers/Stewards: Reading Infrastructure / Services ? Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review#By_project how you can get notified of new patches in your code areas of interest. Thanks in advance for your reviews! Of last week's 5 listed patches, 3 got a CR-1 and one got a CR+1. Thanks to Thiemo! Maintainers/Stewards data taken from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers CR0 source: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/ownerin:newcomers+status:open+label:Veri… CR+1 source: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/ownerin:newcomers+status:open+label:Veri… -- Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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terbium EOL, mw maintenance server MOVED, use mwmaint1001 for all
by Ariel Glenn WMF 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hello folks, Terbium, our former faithful MediaWiki maintenance server, will be up for decommissioning on Monday, July 9th. It is no longer used for anything in production as of a few moments ago. The sole exception to that is cron jobs that were already running and have not yet completed. Please be sure that you have no processes left running on terbium by Monday July 9th! The new server for everything including cron jobs is mwmaint1001.eqiad.wmnet. Your files from terbium should already be available in a subdirectory 'home-terbium' in you home directory. Please report any issues; you know where to find us (phab, #wikimedia-operations irc). Thanks! WMF SRE Team P.S. For full history of this process, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192092

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Readers Monthly update for June 2018
by Chris Koerner 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Guten Tag! This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for June 2018. Feedback and questions are encouraged. == Discussions == === Apps === * Android released a number of new features that improve support for multiple languages when searching for articles or browsing the Explore feed, as well as miscellaneous performance and stability enhancements. Download the new version on Google Play. [0] === Web === * Continuing work on PDF rendering and mobile page issues/notices. [1] [2] * Planning for Q1 work, including advanced mobile contributions. Feedback on the current proposal is highly appreciated. [3] === Reading Infrastructure === * Bug fixing for the Wikimedia Reading List extensions, finished QA for the Safari extension, will be publishing soon. [4] * Deployed improvements to the REST endpoint for page references. [5] * Working on adding language variant support to mobile content service REST endpoints, now that Parsoid added support [6] [7] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [8] ==Events and News == * Readers will be hosting user testing at Wikimania. The focus of the testing is around features in the Android and iOS versions of the Wikipedia app and improvements to the mobile web interface. More information on the Wikimedia 2018 site. [9] [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en_GB [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191998 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170690 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197792 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197009 [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [9] https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Readers_user_testing --- 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 Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-06-25
by Chris Koerner 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hello, Here's the update from the Search Platform team for the week of 2018-06-25. As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * Stas has added Lexemes to the list of namespaces for instant indexing on Wikidata [0]. * David has merged refactoring of Wikidata search configs [1]. === Wikidata Query Service === * Stas have fixed several bugs in WDQS: global limit on MWAPI [2], correct reporting of results order [3] and "q" option in regexps [4]. [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196896 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182717 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197495 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197496 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197566 --- 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 Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '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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Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled
by Greg Grossmeier 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Hello, Unfortunately we are experiencing spam in our Phabricator instance again and have decided to turn on the requirement for new account approval by Phabricator admins as a mitigation step. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We are actively working to address this issue. Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | Release Team Manager A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2018-06
by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2018-06): 309 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2018-06): 902 Task authors in (2018-06): 494 Users who have closed tasks in (2018-06): 270 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2018-06): 273 Tasks created in (2018-06): 2425 Tasks closed in (2018-06): 2027 Open and stalled tasks in total: 38872 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 4 Needs Triage: 406 High: 708 Normal: 968 Low: 1234 Lowest: 1206 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2018-06): 20 TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 . Yours sincerely, Fab Rick Aytor (via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Sun Jul 1 00:00:16 UTC 2018)

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