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by Fokou Joel 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

I am a student in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology in University of Buea(Cameroon). Thank you!

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Composer does not know mediawiki/mediawiki on dry-runs
by Stephan Gambke 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

To enable extensions to declare a version constraint on MW, so an incompatible version of an extension is not installed in the first place instead of crashing MW later on. Stephan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, November 15, 2019 4:27 PM, Florian Schmidt <florian.schmidt.welzow(a)t-online.de> wrote: > Extensions can express a dependency to mediawiki core in their extension.json. not sure where, how and why a non-existing composer package should be injected to a composer run. > > Am 15.11.2019 10:15 schrieb David Barratt <dbarratt(a)wikimedia.org>: > >> as far as I know, extensions shouldn't be declaring a dependency on >> MediaWiki in composer.json and if one is, it should probably be fixed. >> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 9:50 AM Stephan Gambke via Wikitech-l < >> wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> When running `composer update` MediaWiki injects a mediawiki/mediawiki >>> package, so extensions can declare a dependency on a particular MW version >>> range. >>> However, when doing a `composer update --dry-run` this package gets not >>> injected causing the dry run to fail. >>> >>> Does anybody know a solution/workaround? >>> >>> Stephan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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by Ayush Basral 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Hey!! I am a new to wikimedia. Please help me to make my first contribution.

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WM Technical Conference 2019 update - day 3
by Deb Tankersley 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Hello, We wanted to give a quick update on what happened during day 3 of the Wikimedia Technical Conference <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019>, in Atlanta, Georgia. *Thursday <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/Program#…>, November 14, 2019:* Morning sessions were all really good, and we did dot voting on unconference topics during our breaks. Afternoon was spent on a large portion of those unconference sessions. The morning sessions covered: - Self-service Stateless Microservices (for APIs) (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234646>) - What have we learned when deploying a standalone server side rendering service for the new mobile Wikidata termbox (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234642>) - The test pyramid and speeding up your results (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234637>) - Mediawiki Code Ownership (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234655>) - Running tests locally: an introduction (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234638>) - Restructure Rest API and services (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238257>) Afternoon sessions and unconferences: - Federated MediaWiki (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238383>) - Language metadata in mediawiki (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234644>) - RFCs / TechCom: how could RFCs be more useful (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216308>) - Ideas for proposing changes to validating with our communities (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238265>) - Automate wiki creation (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238255> ) - Small things to improve in wikisources (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238263>) - Interactive content at Wikimedia: how to even start (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238259>) - CI counseling session 100% free (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238275>) - Wikibase, Wikidata & things (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238252>) - Movement Strategy 2030 - How do we know we are productive? Eng metrics (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238384>) - MediaWiki Config mgmt @ scale (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238273>) - WBStack.com Wikibase as a service (shared platform) MVP /prototype demo - Discourse extension for MediaWiki We ended the day with cleaning up documentation from the day's sessions and moving them into the phabricator tickets (to keep all the data in one place), taking pictures of the session sticky notes / diagrams, and then adding them also into the phabricator tickets. Photos and documentation that have been uploaded can be viewed using this category <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_…> (look for day 3 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_…>) on Commons: Category:Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 (sample media: unconference template <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMTC19_unconference_template.jpg>). Cheers, The Wikimedia Technical Conference Program Committee -- deb tankersley (she/her) program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia Tech Talks] Wikidata, behind the curtain, 20, November, 2019 at 6PM UTC
by Sarah R 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Hi Everyone, It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019 Episode 10! This talk will take place 20, November, 2019 at 6PM UTC. *Title: *Wikidata, behind the curtain *Speaker: *Amir Sarabadani, Software developer, Wikimedia Deutschland *Summary:* Wikidata is a complex and large-scale project. We all know how to use it and how to contribute to it but it's a little bit hard to understand how it actually works, how it scales and what parts are tricky about it. To lots of developers, it's a black box and this is not good. This talk plans to explain internals of Wikidata to other developers and explain future changes to Wikidata on its technical layer. The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqKyC7gt0s During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at #wikimedia-office You can watch past Tech Talks here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te… *Note:* *Please feel free to distribute this email to any lists that you feel are appropriate!* Hope to see you there! Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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s1 (enwiki) primary master switchover (read-only required) 14th Nov 05:00 AM UTC
by Manuel Arostegui 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Hello, We have requested a 30 minutes read-only window for s1 (enwiki) (T234801) for the 14th November from 05:00-05:30 AM UTC to switchover that section primary database master (T234800) db1067 is an old host and out of warranty that will be decommissioned (T217396). The new master will be db1083 We are going to do this on Thursday 14th Nov from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (we do not expect to use the 30 minutes window, if everything goes as expected). Impact: Writes will be blocked on the following wiki: enwiki Reads will remain unaffected. Communication will happen at #wikimedia-operations If you are around at that time and want to help with the monitoring, please join us! Thanks

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WM Technical Conference 2019 update - day 2
by Deb Tankersley 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

Hello, We wanted to give a quick update on what happened during day 2 of the Wikimedia Technical Conference <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019>, in Atlanta, Georgia. *Wednesday <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/Program#…>, November 13, 2019:* Morning sessions were large groups talking about Developer Productivity & onwiki tooling - lots of really good conversations about templates, gadgets, scripts, and modules (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234661>). The afternoon sessions covered on: - Platform Stewardship (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234657>) - On-wiki documentation & documentation as code (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234634>) - Standardizing QA best practices (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234653>) - Best practices and useful methods for remote teams - volunteers and staff alike (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234658>) - Code Health/Code Review (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234660>) - Quo Vadis Beta Cluster? Towards production-like testing and staging environments (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234643>) - Learning how WMDE improved their organizational structure (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234652>) - Release "strategies" (containers) for MediaWiki and other elements of Wikimedia platform (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234644>) We ended the afternoon with cleaning up documentation from the day's sessions and moving them into the phabricator tickets (to keep all the data in one place), taking pictures of the session sticky notes / diagrams, and then adding them also into the phabricator tickets. Photos and documentation that have been uploaded can be viewed using this category <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_…> (look for day 2 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_…>) on Commons: Category:Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 (sample media: thank you goat <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMTC19_thank_you_goat.jpg> and Amir and Global Templates <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019…> ). Cheers, The Wikimedia Technical Conference Program Committee -- deb tankersley (she/her) program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Scrum of scrums/2019-11-13
by Željko Filipin 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

Hi, for HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-11-13 Željko -- = 2019-11-13 = == Callouts == * Release Engineering: no train this and the next week because of Wikimedia Technical Conference and team offsite == Product == === Editing === * Updates: ** Talk pages: developing high fidelity prototype for replying to comments === Growth === * Updates: ** Finalizing v1.0 of newcomer tasks recommendation module for release next week ** Working with Scoring, Research and Search teams in the coming weeks to implement topic-matching in the task recommendation module using ORES modeling === iOS native app === * Blocked by: **Core Platform ***Section headers in compare endpoint ([[phab:T236964]]) ***Intermediate counts endpoint ([[phab:T234940]]) * Updates: ** moving 6.4.1 hotfix to 6.5 ***3D touch fix in article view ** 6.5 wrapping up development - [[phab:project/view/4245]] ***History/diff endpoints are live 🎉 thanks all! === Android native app === * Updates: **In the final stages of work towards a major release of SuggestedEdits feature **Re-started work on integrating with mobile-html endpoints for page rendering ([[phab:project/view/4318]]) === Product Infrastructure === * Updates: ** MachineVision extension is enabled for testing Computer-Aided Tagging this week === Structured Data === * Blocking: ** Search Platform: Data dumps for SDC: [[phab:T221917]] === Parsing === * Blocking: ** We are partially blocking VE testing of Parsoid/PHP and maybe completely blocking CX testing of Parsoid/PHP because of [[phab:T238161]] * Updates: ** Thanks to Parsoid client teams (VE, CX, Flow, MCS) for starting to test against Parsoid/PHP and reporting issues / filing bugs. ** We are considering enabling Parsoid/PHP on testwiki tomorrow / Monday to enable additional testing in a production-like context. ** We are close to storing Parsoid/PHP content in RESTBase storage. We have a couple issues to resolve before that. == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocking: ** Wikidata: [[gerrit:549859]] === Fundraising Tech === * Updates: ** CiviCRM *** More improvements to contact deduplication *** Creating button to send end of year summary receipt on demand *** Fixing more records of bulk mailing activity imported from Acoustic ** Payments-wiki *** Getting a bunch of variants ready for testing during end of year campaign ** CentralNotice *** Rebasing and revising sub-national geotargeting *** Refinement of processing for new impressions data pipeline === Core Platform === * Blocking: ** iOS native app *** Section headers in compare endpoint ([[phab:T236964]]) ** Intermediate counts endpoint ([[phab:T234940]]) * Updates: ** MW REST API live ** continue work on next version of API, OAuth 2.0, sessions ** planning for new === Engineering Productivity === ==== Release Engineering ==== * Updates: ** half of the team at Wikimedia Technical Conference ** Train Health *** Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.5 - [[phab:T233853]] *** This week: no train because of Wikimedia Technical Conference *** Next week: no train because of team offsite === Search Platform === * Blocked by: ** Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: [[phab:T221917]] * Updates: ** WDQS is having high update lag for the last week - [[phab:T238229]] ** Commons search seems to have stopped indexing statements on 30 October 2019 - [[phab:T237849]] ** Search engine fails in Special:IndexPage - [[phab:T232710]] ** Make it possible to bypass automatic redirection to exact matches in commons - [[phab:T235263]] * Stuff no one else cares about: ** Warning: Deprecated field [inline] used, expected [source] instead - [[phab:T237000]] === Security === * Updates: ** Next up: Security review for MachineVision libraries - [[phab:T237588]] ** In Progress: Review the FileImporter extension's load of config from wiki pages for security concerns - [[phab:T202071]] ** In Progress: Security concept review for newcomer tasks on Special:Homepage - [[phab:T235720]] ** Waiting: Security readiness review for the MachineVision extension - [[phab:T227346]] == Wikimedia DE == === Wikidata === * Blocked by: ** Analytics: [[gerrit:549859]]

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WM Technical Conference 2019 update - day 1
by Deb Tankersley 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Hi all, We wanted to give a quick update on what happened during day 1 of the Wikimedia Technical Conference <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019>, in Atlanta, Georgia. *Tuesday <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/Program#…>, November 12, 2019:* The first day of the event started out with the morning sessions concentrating on welcoming the participants, reviewing what has been done since last year's event, and what we want to accomplish at this year's event (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-intro> / slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Tech_Conf_2019_Opening_sl…> ). The afternoon sessions concentrated on: - Our local development environment - Core (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234632>, ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234632>) - Front-end modernization and standardization (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234649>, ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234649>) - Componentization and sharing with the open source community (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234654>, ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234654>) - System level testing: patterns and anti-patterns with Selenium (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234635>, ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234635>) - Continuous Delivery/Deployment in Wikimedia: The Future of the Deployment Pipeline (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234641>, ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234641>) - Integrating contributions from other teams or volunteers (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234662>, ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234662>) We ended the afternoon with finishing up documentation from the day's sessions, taking pictures of the session notes, and then uploading into phabricator (goat sticker sample <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMTC19_Goat_stickers_day_1.jpg> and badge <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMTC19_badge_and_candy.jpg>). Photos and documentation that have been uploaded can be viewed using this category <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_…> : Category:Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019. Cheers, The Wikimedia Technical Conference Program Committee -- deb tankersley (she/her) program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Pre-MCR database fields are no longer being written on group 0 (and soon on the rest of the Wikimedia wikis too)
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

We've reached the point in deployment of the Multi-Content Revisions changes where we're turning off the writing of data to deprecated fields. In particular, rev_text_id and ar_text_id will be 0 in all revisions, and rev_content_model, rev_content_format, and corresponding fields in the archive table will always be null. This has been the case on testwiki since October 29, and on the remaining group 0 wikis since a few minutes ago. Assuming no issues turn up, we plan to roll it out to group 1 on Thursday and group 2 early next week. If you find any MediaWiki bugs that seem as if they might be related to this change, please file them in Phabricator and tag #Core-Platform-Team. Thanks! -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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