Wikitech-l August 2018

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-08-13
by Chris Koerner 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-08-13. As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * We re-indexed wikis in Malay, Indonesian, and Polish, adding stemming to Malay and ICU normalization to Indonesian [0], and fixing the worst pathological stemming errors in Polish [1]. ** Reindexing tickets are [2] and [3]. *Trey wrote a blog post about the difficulties of tokenization (breaking text up into words, more or less). [4] It's the first in a series covering the basics of search. == Did you know? == * Auto-antonyms (or contronyms, among other names) are words that have contradictory meanings. [5] Some cases arise from words that were originally distinct, but came to sound the same through normal sound change, such as “cleave”, which means both to hold fast (from Old English “clifian”) and to cut in two (from Old English “clēofan”). Other times, words just acquire novel but contradictory senses, such as “fast”, which means both to be securely attached to, and able to move quickly. Often the sense is quite clear from context, but when it is not, words can become so confusing that careful writers avoid them; these are sometimes called “skunked” words. [6] --- [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196780 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200037 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200204 [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/07/anatomy-search-token-affection/ [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunked_term 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 As always, feedback and questions welcome. Yours, Chris Koerner Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Sensitive IRC bots - be careful out there!
by Jon Robson 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

I just got banned from Freenode server for @ing a few people during a SWAT deploy. Be careful everyone! It's a dangerous world out there! I've taken the advice and emailed kline but in the meantime, you may want to be careful who/how many people you @. Will let you know when I know more and apologies if you can't get hold of me in the mean time! Jon Replay of the event: <jouncebot> Jdlrobson and nray: A patch you scheduled for Evening SWAT (Max 6 patches) is about to be deployed. Please be around during the process. Note: If you break AND fix the wikis, you will be rewarded with a sticker. 4:03 PM <jdlrobson> Jon Robson \o 4:03 PM <nray> Nicholas Ray \o 4:05 PM <jdlrobson> Jon Robson mark: twentyafterfour RoanKattouw thcipriani Niharika any of you able to swat right now? 4:05 PM ⇐ You were killed by Sigyn (sigyn@freenode/utility-bot/sigyn): (Spam is off topic on freenode.) 4:05 PM ⇐ jdlrobson quit (sid92657@gateway/web/ irccloud.com/x-maentctwgksrmedg) Killed (Sigyn (Spam is off topic on freenode.)) Check your host, port and ssl settingsDisconnected: You are banned from this server- Please do not spam users or channels on freenode. If in error, please contact kline(a)freenode.net. (2018/8/16 23.03) <https://www.irccloud.com/irc/freenode/channel/wikimedia-operations> -- Jon Robson Senior Software Engineer twitter: @jdlrobson linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorobson/

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, German, Persian. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- 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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huwiki, arwiki to be treated as 'big wikis' and run parallel jobs
by Ariel Glenn WMF 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Starting September 1, huwiki and arwiki, which both take several days to complete the revsion history content dumps, will be moved to the 'big wikis' list, meaning that they will run jobs in parallel as do frwiki, ptwiki and others now, for a speedup. Please update your scripts accordingly. Thanks! Task for this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202268 Ariel

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introduction
by Nadege Awah 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Dear sir/madame; I am Awah Nadege Tayebatu, female and a Cameroonian. I am an Applied Geology student of the University of Buea, Cameroon. I will love to contribute code to MediaWiki and so will appreciate some guide on how to start contributing and some learning resources i can use as a beginner. Thank you.

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Remove 'jquery.expandableField ' module without deprecation
by Krinkle 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

Hi, The 'jquery.expandableField' created in 2011 for use by the Vector skin (back when skins were still part of core). More specifically, it was part of an experimental option brought in via the Vector *extension*. It was never enabled by default and the option was removed in 2013. [1] The underlying plugin was never removed and remained to this day, despite being unmaintained and having known defects. [2] It is not used anywhere in Wikimedia Git, nor anywhere else indexed by MediaWiki Codesearch, [3] and also not used in any site script or user script (mwgrep). Amazing! Based on our policy for PHP, [4] I'm announcing here that the module will be removed in MediaWiki 1.32. Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/453454/ -- Timo [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Vector/+/84195/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29647 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48515 [3] https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/search/?q=jquery.expandableField [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deprecation_policy

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Tidy removed on all Wikimedia wikis (final update)
by Subramanya Sastry 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

Hello everyone, On 6th July 2017, we made an announcement [1] about our plans to replace Tidy with RemexHtml on the Wikimedia cluster. On 5th July 2018, we made the final switchover from Tidy [2]. For those of you interested, we published a blog post [3] documenting the process and steps in this project. What next? ---------- RemexHtml is the default in MediaWiki since 1.31. We are in the process of removing all traces of Tidy from Wikimedia's configuration files and from MediaWiki itself. We'll keep the ParserMigration extension enabled in its current form for another couple of months. After this period, the ParserMigration extension will be disabled completely alongwith all associated Tidy configuration. It will be re-purposed at a later time as required to compare impacts of other parser changes. We haven't figured out the timeline yet, but at some point in the coming weeks, we'll disable most of the high-priority linter categories that only make sense in the context of replacing Tidy. If you have any thoughts about retaining or dropping these categories, please leave a note on mw:Help_talk:Extension:Linter [4]. Thanks! ------- As noted in the blog post [3], this was a collaborative effort between the several teams at the Wikimedia Foundation and volunteer editing communities on various wikis. Everyone involved played important and specific roles in getting us to this important milestone. An active embrace by various wikis of this effort has let the Foundation make this much-needed and important upgrade of a key piece of our platform. In that context, I want to take this opportunity to specifically name and thank some of these individuals. Tim Starling, C.Scott Ananian, Kunal Mehta, Arlo Breault, and yours truly did all the technical work in core, Parsoid, and the extensions. Erica Litrenta and Sherry Snyder helped develop the community engagement plan with various wikis and specific editors. Sherry, in particular helped a lot in the final months as we were trying to get more wikis to fix pages. James Forrester helped review and provide feedback at various stages, especially with the phased deployment. A number of other developers and staff were involved in review, feedback, during RFC discussions, and in helping with fixing templates where I couldn't do so myself. Here is a subset of users across several wikis that I had an opportunity to interact with and observe who helped in various ways: developing bots and gadgets, writing help pages, asking clarification questions, providing feedback, reporting bugs on wiki and Phabricator, and fixing lots of pages and templates on their home and other wikis. User:Daimano Eaytoy, User:Sakretsu, User:Anamalocaris, User:Izno, User:Lsj, User:xaosflux, User:PerfektesChaos, User:Lómelinde, User:Ikhitron, User:星耀晨曦, User:Deryck Chan, User:Sunpriat, User:Stryn, User:MawaruNeko, User:NicoV, User:Bdijkstra, User:Skalman, User:Shakespearefan00, User:Billinghurst, User:MarcoSwart, User:Mackensen, User:Andriy.v, User:Jonesey95, User:TheDJ, and the anonymous wiki user whoever you are. :-) Obviously, there were a number of others users involved in this effort. Please feel free to raise your hand or recognize other's contributions on this thread! My thanks to you all! Subbu. 1. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2017-July/001625… 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175706#4399641 3. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/09/tidy-html5-replacement/ 4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:Linter

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Sensitive IRC bots - be careful out there!
by Daniel Zahn 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

Hey Jon, you should be unbanned. I asked in #freenode and they removed it. <@Unit193> mutante: I've removed it at this point. -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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2018-08-15 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-08-15 =2018-08-15= Yesterday was WMF holiday, though a few teams worked and entered updates: == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * OOUI v0.28.0 released, minor release with breaking changes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v… *** New OOUI “Tutorials” section https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/tutorials/index.html – thanks GSOC student Hagar Shilo! *** Possible breakages limited only to removal of long-time deprecated icons, please update your icon references if you haven't yet. == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ** ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: - * Blocking: * Updates: **6.0 still in beta ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/), working on 6.0.1 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0.1-walrus-on-a-golf-cart/) ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture: T199452 T188261 T197133 *** Page issues UI and instrumentation: T201124 T191528 T197932 T191532 *** Other fixes and hygiene: T193172 T173527 T197931 T197497 T198947 T201131 T140804 ** Desktop website (Popups): *** SVG optimization (thanks Volker!) T185596 *** Replace deprecated jQuery dependency T198579 ** WikidataPageBanner *** Only move/restyle subtitle for pages where banner is present T199855 ** PDF rendering (Proton): *** Improve Chromium halt behavior and resource management T181623 T181623 ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Maps: *** Upgrade of node-mapnik deployed successfully to Beta Cluster *** Planning production upgrade to Debian Stretch *** Working on a method for invalidating an area of map tiles ** MCS announcement for Android app multi-language features released: up from Aug 9th until Aug 16th T191640 ** Continuing work on mobile-html endpoint improvements (see open subtasks of T177433) ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** Job to get additional search data from wikidata in progress ** search prototyping continues ** design continues for adding structured statements for artwork ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Audiences Design === ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** OOUI v0.28.0 released, breaking change release *** Including new OOUI “Tutorials” section https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/tutorials/index.html – thanks GSOC student Hagar Shilo! *** Possible breakages limited only to removal of long-time deprecated icons, please consider updating your icon pack references if you haven't done so in the deprecating phase. ** Finished SVG optimization in Popups, all major Foundation products optimized! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185596 ** Style Guide Imagery work https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194686 == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Design work for T194697 "multiblocks" ** Platform Evolution stakeholder meetings and planning for Wikimedia Technical Conference ** Gathering input from non-Wikimedia MediaWiki community at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/TechConf_Inp… === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** populateContentTables.php now running simultaneously on s1, s2, s3, s5, s6, s7 (T183488) *** anticipated to run for 2 more weeks ** progress continues on phase 2 (file caption support) development tasks == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **

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introduction
by Jack Gleeson 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

Hello Awah Nadege Tayebatu! I would recommend that you look here to get started https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker Jack On 16 August 2018 at 12:09, Nadege Awah <awahnadege02(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear sir/madame; > > I am Awah Nadege Tayebatu, female and a Cameroonian. I am an Applied > Geology student of the University of Buea, Cameroon. I will love to > contribute code to MediaWiki and so will appreciate some guide on how to > start contributing and some learning resources i can use as a beginner. > > Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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