Wikitech-l January 2019

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Thank you Tuesday
by Kunal Mehta 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Hi everyone, Following up on Andre's statistics[1] about the people writing/editing the code, I wanted to share some about the people reviewing the code (gathered by Nemo, thanks!). The top +2'ers in MediaWiki core: 582 Timo Tijhof <krinklemail(a)gmail.com> 475 James D. Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org> 406 Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)member.fsf.org> 189 Aaron Schulz <aschulz(a)wikimedia.org> 174 Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> 164 Brad Jorsch <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> 107 Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> And across all MediaWiki extensions: 1898 James D. Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org> 1365 Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)member.fsf.org> 1153 Umherirrender <umherirrender_de.wp(a)web.de> 971 Thiemo Kreuz <thiemo.kreuz(a)wikimedia.de> 705 Robert Vogel <vogel(a)hallowelt.biz> 626 Markus Glaser <glaser(a)hallowelt.biz> 595 Timo Tijhof <krinklemail(a)gmail.com> The full list is available at [2]. It's interesting to compare it to 2017[3] - special shoutout to Addshore who reviewed exactly 51 MediaWiki core patches in 2017 and then again in 2018! [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-January/091282.htm l [2] http://federico.kapsi.fi/crstats/2018-merges.txt [3] https://federico.kapsi.fi/crstats/2017-merges.txt -- Legoktm

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TechCom Radar
by Kate Chapman 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed New Service Request: Wikidata Termbox SSR <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212189> the RFC proposes a new service to perform server side rendering of the Wikidata termbox. * Looking at extensions to see how they would interact with proposed new extension interfaces: RFC: MediaWiki 2018 extension interfaces <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212482> * There was no IRC meeting last week (9 Jan) * There is no IRC meeting this week (16 Jan) 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 Senior Program Manager, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation kchapman(a)wikimedia.org

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Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter
by Johanna Strodt 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

// sorry for cross-posting The FileExporter will soon be released as a beta feature to all wikis. The planned deployment date is January 16. Some background: Files from local wikis should be transferred to Wikimedia Commons if their license allows it. This way, they can be used by all wikis. But if you wanted to import a local file to Commons in the past, you couldn’t properly transfer its file and page history. It was a wish from a survey of the German-speaking communities to find a solution to this problem. Now, the FileExporter makes it possible to import a file from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, while keeping its history intact. A first version has already been a beta feature on a few first wikis since June 2018. [1] Since then, bugs were fixed and features were added. If you’re interested in importing local files, please give the feature a try. Even though it’s a beta feature, you can use it for real file imports. Please note that in order to get started, you need to 1. activate the beta feature “FileExporter” on your wiki [2], and 2. make sure your wiki has a proper configuration file. Configuration files are maintained by each wiki's community. They define, among other things, whether a file can be exported. Exports from wikis without a configuration file are blocked. Find more more information in the documentation. [3] We’re looking forward to your feedback on the central feedback page! [4] A big thanks to everyone who gave feedback so far. If you wish to learn more about the project, have a look at the page of the wish. [5] For the Technical Wishes team, Johanna [1] deployment plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons… [2] go to Preferences > Beta features, e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat… [3] documentation on configuration files: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons… [4] central feedback page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:FileImporter [5] project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications Technical Wishlist, Wikimedia Deutschland

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2019-01-09 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 13 Jan '19

13 Jan '19

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-01-09 =2019-01-09= == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * Language blocked by RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/482766/ * Security: if there are notes from the Proton security review, they would be useful for the handover from Reading Web to Reading Infrastructure. See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177765#4822198 * Growth: Who do I (mdholloway) talk to about/add for review on changes to Extension:GettingStarted? * Readers Web and Performance, in case you notice performance hits on the mobile site: #Research ran reader trust survey from 01/07 till 01/09: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882 * Core Platform (from Analytics) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202781#4865947 (same for MediaWiki history reconstruction). * Release Engineering: January 28 - wmf.15 - No Train (due to All Hands week) == 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: **Deploying Help Panel this week https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Focus_on_help_desk ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: CI/RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/482766/ * Blocking: * Updates: ** Google Translate available for ContentTranslation now! https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/09/you-can-now-use-google-translate… === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **completed user testing of the Editing prototype - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211152 ** will be conducting user testing of the Editing prototype among internal users this week **still working on/refining editing tools and syntax highlighting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/ ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Summary: starting Advanced Mobile Contributions work and Webpackifying the remaining MobileFrontend modules. Say hello to our new test engineer, Edward Tadros! ** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** Webpackify mobile.languages.structured and mobile.mediaViewer asynchronous ResourceLoader modules T210210 T210209 **** Drawers and Overlays should not auto-append themselves T209129 T211691 **** Replace inheritance with composition T205592 *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Build AMC opt-in toggle T211197 T212516 **** Team planning *** Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues **** Deploy to enwiki and all remaining projects on January 14th T210554 *** Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T212518 T211724 T212970 ** Desktop website (Vector, Popups) *** Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews **** Generate all possible combinations of page previews with Storybook T205989 https://zen-pasteur-e92b1e.netlify.com/ **** WMDE reference previews are in progress https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews ** PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality *** Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084 *** Passing ownership to Readers Infrastructure pending security follow-up T210652 ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: ** Security: if there are notes from the Proton security review, they would be useful for the handover. See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177765#4822198 ** Growth: Who do I (mdholloway) talk to about changes to Extension:GettingStarted? * Blocking: * Updates: ** Building new APIs to support the App Editor Tasks initiative ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212793 ) *** Counts of edits meeting specific criteria: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212795 *** Suggested entities/articles for adding descriptions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504 **Maps: *** Test Kartotherian/Tilerator with node 10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209990 *** Stretch Upgrade: **** Tile generation report published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/Tile_generation_report **** Ready to move on with whole cluster upgrade and data replication ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** This patch needs VE folks to take a look and validate that they can work with this change **** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/parsoid/+/456520 -- Add support for server side mgmt of edited <ref>s ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** OOUI v0.30.1 in preparation, featuring one deprecating change *** `iconTitle`/`indicatorTitle` options are replaced by `title`, same goes for `setIconTitle`/`setIndicatorTitle`, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76638 & https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212977 *** From above, all widgets where it makes sense to provide a `title` attribute will support them out-of-box ** Working on roadmap for OOUI v1.0.0 - feedback welcome ** Special:AllMessages now standardized ** Setting up project page for system font stack for MinervaNeue == Technology == === Analytics === * Callouts: Core Platform https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202781#4865947 (same for MeiaWiki history reconstruction). * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Presto cluster online and usable with test data pushed from analytics prod infrastructure accessible by Cloud (labs) users https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204951 ** Productionized HiveToDruid with transform functions (allow for any EventLogging data set to be loaded with handy transforms: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210099 ** Decomission older Hadoop worker nodes and add newer ones: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209929 === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** CiviCRM: *** new point upgrade *** fixing regression in manual merge code *** reviewing core team member's work on allowing read-only DB connections. ** CentralNotice: *** deploying patches held during big English on next week's train *** duplicate entries in protection log should hopefully be fixed by a core patch to go out next week too https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210983 ** Payments-wiki *** upgrading to 1.31 in the next week or two https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184460 *** charging recurring donations in native currency for card processor's new API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211024 === MediaWiki Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** Language blocked by RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/482766/ * Updates: ** Željko has contacted a few teams (Editing, Language engineering, Contributors, Growth, Fundraising tech, Reading, WMDE) about creating Selenium tests for a few repositories. Please respond. Thank you. :) ** SonarQube and Code Health Metrics at 5 Minute Demo this week https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/5_Minute_Demo ** Train Health: *** Last week: No train, hope it was a good holiday! *** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206666 **** No blockers! :D *** Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.13 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206667 *** January 28 - wmf.15 - No Train (All Hands) === Research === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Ran reader trust survey from 01/07 till 01/09: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882 ** Working on deploying the recommendation API improvements: *** Support for more database connections *** Additional languages: en, es, fa, and uz ***Misc improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213222 === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: ** A recent model for translatewiki.net has run into the dreaded production-to-non-production API call limitation. Anyone else support a renewed push to bring TWN onto WMF hardware? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213131 * Blocking: * Updates: ** Deployment yesterday adds new models for translatewiki, jawiki, itwiki, glwiki, and dewiki. (cc. Collaboration Team) ** We have CIDR whitelisting now, so consumers can ask us for exceptions in order to run short, highly parallel jobs. ** Writing an Oozie job for ORES, getting lots of great support from Analytics. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209732 === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Security === * Blocked by:None * Blocking:Proton just learned, will follow up * Updates: Analysts are working Phab tasks ** === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Start of quarter! == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **

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Hello people,
by K. Kaushik Reddy 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

I am a second-year undergraduate C.S student at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, India. I am a Data science enthusiast and a python developer. I am familiar with numpy , pandas & matplotlib as well . I also have experience working with the Linux OS. I think the most natural way to get started would be making some small yet related contributions to the project. Do you have such small fixes that could be assigned to me? Besides that, I would really appreciate any form of suggestions or information about how the project could be completed. I really love to work with wikimedia foundation for the GSoC-2019 and much passionate about contributing to the wikimedia community. Will be looking forward for your positive reply. Best, K. Kaushik Reddy.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [foundation-optional] A difficult goodbye
by Info WorldUniversity 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

Thank you for your contributions to Wikimedia and the Wikimedia movement, Victoria, Regards, Scott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:31 PM Traci Sigmon <tsigmon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > That sounds like an incredible opportunity, Victoria. It was great working > with you here and hope to cross paths again! > > Traci > > > Traci Sigmon (she/her) > Senior Recruiter > Wikimedia Foundation > > Join Us: WorkWithUs > Connect with me on LinkedIn > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment and you can help continue to > make it a reality: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ > > > > > On Jan 10, 2019, at 6:29 PM, Victoria Coleman <vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I have some difficult news to share. > > > > A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an opportunity came up > for me to exercise the full spectrum of my skills as the CEO of an early > stage mission oriented startup. It has been a mighty struggle between my > commitment to my team, the Foundation and the movement and this > opportunity to bring all my skills to bear and build something from the > ground up to do good in the world. I will not lie to you - it has not been > easy. But ultimately I decided that I have to give it a go and I accepted > the offer. I plan on starting there on Feb 4th so my last day at the > Foundation will be Feb 1st. > > > > These past two years have been amongst the most enjoyable in my > professional career. I’ve enjoyed getting to know the movement and what > fuels it and I’ve been incredibly privileged to work with a Tech team like > no other. We have together strengthened the technical infrastructure of the > movement and while much work remains to be done we have a much stronger > team in place to take the mission to the next level. And I have personally > made friendships that will last a lifetime. > > > > The organization I will be moving to is Atlas AI, a public benefit > corporation supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. I will be leading an > exceptional team of AI and earth system science experts striving for > improvements in human well being through data driven insights. Our focus > areas are drawn from the UN’s sustainable development goals of no poverty > and zero hunger with emphasis on Sub Saharan Africa. > > > > I leave behind a Technology department that I am certain is well on the > way to achieving our vision to create the infrastructure for the free > knowledge movement. I am also pleased that during my tenure, we have built > leaders who are equipped to take on this challenge. > > > > Erika Bjune will be serving as interim CTO. Erika joined us a little > over two years ago and she has distinguished herself as one of the finest > people leaders I have ever worked with. Both she and Katherine will have my > ongoing support — I will stay on in a consulting role to Erika on > organizational matters and for the mid term planning work we have ahead of > us in the remainder of the fiscal year. I know that I am leaving the Tech > team in good hands until a permanent CTO is hired. > > > > I want to close this difficult message with my heartfelt thanks to all > of you for letting me be part of this incredible movement. Being a > Wikimedian is a great privilege. I wanted you to know that I’m not walking > away from something; I am walking towards something that is very > important to me and the world. I will miss you all. Deeply. Truly. And a > lot! > > > > > > Victoria > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Foundation Optional" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to foundation-optional+unsubscribe(a)wikimedia.org. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - http://scottmacleod.com - CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Announcing MediaWiki 1.32.0
by Mukunda Modell 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

I'm pleased to announce the release of MediaWiki version 1.32.0. Release notes are updated and archives have been uploaded to releases.wikimedia.org. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidates and provided feedback, as well as the developers who worked hard to get several important fixes merged in time for the 1.32 final. To see what's changed in 1.32, see the release notes[1]. Below you will find download links which lead directly the source for this release, either with or without bundled extensions. ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.32/mediawiki-1.32.0.tar.gz Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.32/mediawiki-core-1.32.0.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.32.0-rc.2): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.32/mediawiki-1.32.0.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.32/mediawiki-core-1.32.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.32/mediawiki-1.32.0.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.32/mediawiki-1.32.0.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Release Notes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.32

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[Google Summer of Code 2019 / Outreachy Round 18] Call for projects and mentors!
by Derick Alangi 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Hello everyone, We are now recruiting projects to promote in Google Summer of Code 2019 and Outreachy Round 18! Both these programs have a similar timeline for the summer round. Accepted candidates will work with mentors from May to August 2019. Through both these programs, we bring new contributors to Wikimedia technical projects. Browse through Outreach programs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs> to learn more. Earlier we promote the projects, better it works out for everyone. Students get enough time to prepare their application, organization administrators to do ample outreach and mentors to find a strong candidate for their project. If you are interested in mentoring a project, create a task on Phabricator and tag it with #outreach-programs-projects <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/> and #Google-Summer-of-Code (2019) or #Outreachy (Round 18). You can also choose to mentor for projects already on outreach-program-projects <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/> workboard. Remember, every project must have two mentors. Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of a mentor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors>. To get some idea of the nature of projects, see the completed Google Summer of Code and Outreachy projects from last year <https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/google-summer-of-code-outreachy-…>. Help us spread the word about Wikimedia's participation in these programs and looking forward to your participation! :) --- *Cheers,* *Derick, Pratyush and Srishti (Wikimedia org admins)*

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[CfP] DBpedia meetup @ XML Prague
by Sebastian Hellmann 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Dear all, We are happy to announce that the upcoming DBpedia meetup will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. During the XML conference Prague, Feb 7-9, the DBpedia Community will get together on February 7, 2019. Tell us what cool things you do with DBpedia. If you would like to give a talk at the DBpedia meetup, please get in contact with the DBpedia Association via dbpedia(a)infai.org. Highlights - Intro: DBpedia: Global and Unified Access to Knowledge (Graphs) - DBpedia Databus presentation - DBpedia Showcase Session Quick Facts - Web URL: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Prague2019 - When: February 7th, 2019 - Where: University of Economics, nam. W. Churchilla 4, 130 67 Prague 3, Czech Republic Schedule - Please check the schedule for the upcoming DBpedia meetup here: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Prague2019 Tickets - Attending the DBpedia Community meetup costs €40. DBpedia members get free admission, please contact your nearest DBpedia chapter or the DBpedia Association for a promotion code. - You need to buy a ticket. Please check all details here: http://www.xmlprague.cz/conference-registration/ Sponsors and Acknowledgments - XML conference Prague (http://www.xmlprague.cz/) - Institute for Applied Informatics (http://infai.org/en/AboutInfAI) - OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/) Organisation - Milan Dojčinovski, AKSW/KILT - Tomáš Kliegr, KIZI/University of Economics, Prague - Julia Holze, DBpedia Association - Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association We are looking forward to meeting you in Prague!

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Industry news: GitHub policy change for free private repos with up to 3 collaborators
by Pine W 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

Industry news that I think may interest some Wikimedians, particularly students and developers of small projects where privacy of code is a concern, but keep in mind that GitHub is now owned by Microsoft: https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/ Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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