Wikitech-l November 2019

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MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.1 is ready for testing
by Sam Reed 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.1, the first second candidate for 1.34.x. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. Please note that MediaWiki 1.34 no longer supports HHVM, and also the PHP version requirement has been raised from 7.0.13 in MediaWiki 1.33, to 7.2.9. This is not a final release and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As always please do try out the release candidate in a test environment and report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.34-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release. MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.1 reverts some deprecations in the Parser code that were reported for not properly following our deprecation policy. There is a known and intermittent issue that surfaces itself as "Circular dependency when creating service!", see T231866 [3] for more information. If you experience this issue, please let us know (on the ticket) to get an idea of how prevalent it is. It is intended to get this resolved for 1.34.0. It is expected that MediaWiki 1.34 will become final in the second half of November 2019. Preliminary release notes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/REL1_34/RELEASE-N… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.34 MediaWiki core with bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.1.tar.gz Core only, no extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.1.ta… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.1.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.1.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3386/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.34-… [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231866 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.1.tar.gz Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.1.ta… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.1.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.1.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—November 6th
by Trey Jones 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

*Note that the time is different for this session because of Daylight Savings time and a scheduling conflict.* The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, Nov 6th, 2019 Time: 17:00-18:00 GMT / 09:00-10:00 PST / 12:00-13:00 EST / 18:00-19:00 CST Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww Hope to talk to you in a week! —Trey Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC-4 / EDT

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Getting Error When Trying to Save Changes to Page Using Visual Editor
by Egbe Eugene 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hi All, After installing the VisualEditor extension and trying to edit pages I get an error message saying 'Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server: (curl error: 7) Couldn't connect to server' Is there anything I am missing in the configuration? -- Eugene

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This Week in Logspam
by Brennen Bearnes 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Hi all, >From recent discussion with colleagues while deploying the train, it's come up that there used to be a recurring e-mail along these lines, and it seems like it may be useful to resume on a regular basis. A high volume of error messages in production logs makes it hard to glance at error logs after a deployment and reason about the deployment's impact.[0] This can be especially problematic at times when our visibility into logs is impaired for unrelated reasons, as it has been in recent weeks.[1] It's my good fortune to be resuming this tradition during a week in which the logspam situation seems to have improved. I'm aware of two currently tracked issues which are producing a noticeable amount of noise: * T226751: PHP error "non well formed numeric value encountered" from FormatMetadata->formatCoords[2] * T233349: A data update callback triggered a fail-safe exception in DataUpdateAdapter[3] Help in eliminating these errors from production logs is greatly appreciated, and I want to extend my thanks to everyone who has spent time this week fixing similar issues. I'd also like to thank everyone who's been working on getting logstash back into usable shape. [0]. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Holding_the_train#Logspam [1]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234283 [2]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226751 [3]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233349 -- Brennen Bearnes (he/him) Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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URL parameter fetching (mediawiki)
by John Shepherd 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Is there a “special” way in mediawiki to get parameters passed by URL or do you just use the conventional PHP way ($_GET)? I am trying to check if “Special:CreateAccount?reason=“ is set/has a value (and what that value is). Thank you for your assistance, trying to be convention compliant. -TheSandDoctor

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2019-10
by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2019-10): 411 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2019-10): 1029 Task authors in (2019-10): 556 Users who have closed tasks in (2019-10): 295 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2019-10): 321 Tasks created in (2019-10): 2792 Tasks closed in (2019-10): 2231 Open and stalled tasks in total: 43324 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 10 Needs Triage: 529 High: 975 Normal: 1154 Low: 1609 Lowest: 1602 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2019-10): 4 To see the names of the most active task authors: * Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/ * Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar * Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs * See the author names in the "Submitters" panel 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 phab1003 at Fri Nov 1 00:00:26 UTC 2019)

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