Wikitech-l December 2019

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

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realtime notifications disabled in Phabricator
by Daniel Zahn 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Phabricator users, this is to let you know that the "aphlict" service has been disabled on Phabricator (for now) because it caused stability issues. This means you will not get realtime (pop-up) notifications on Phabricator. (If you had those enabled in the first place). Regular notifications (that do not pop-up) and emails are not affected by this. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238593 -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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New DB_REPLICA constant; DB_SLAVE deprecated
by Aaron Schulz 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

As of 950cf6016c, the mediawiki/core repo was updated to use DB_REPLICA instead of DB_SLAVE, with the old constant left as an alias. This is part of a string of commits that cleaned up the mixed use of "replica" and "slave" by sticking to the former. Extensions have not been mass converted. Please use the new constant in any new code. The word "replica" is a bit more indicative of a broader range of DB setups*, is used by a range of large companies**, and is more neutral in connotations. Drupal and Django made similar updates (even replacing the word "master"): * https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 * https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692/files & https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a023… I don't plan on doing anything to DB_MASTER, since it seems fine by itself, like "master copy", "master tape" or "master key". This is analogous to a master RDBMs database. Even multi-master RDBMs systems tend to have a stronger consistency than classic RDBMs slave servers, and present themselves as one logical "master" or "authoritative" copy. Even in it's personified form, a "master" database can readily be thought of as analogous to "controller", "governer", "ruler", lead "officer", or such.** * clusters using two-phase commit, galera using certification-based replication, multi-master circular replication, ect... ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Appropriateness_of_… *** http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium… -- -Aaron

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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—Jan 8th, 2020
by Trey Jones 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month—but not in January because the first Wednesday is New Year’s Day! 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, Jan 8th, 2020 Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET 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 next week! Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC-5 / EST

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Equivalence for using Template:Cite_Web with <ref></ref> templates surrounding Wikicode
by Egbe Eugene 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Hi All, I am implementing template https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web in VE and after using the template code[1], I get results shown below {{Cite web|url= https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_replace.asp|title=W3Schools|last=W3Sc… }} what I desire to get is <ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_replace.asp|title=W3Schools|last=W3Sc… }</ref> So I guess I am missing something. Please I need help with this. Thanks Eugene -- [1] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Template_cite_with_VE

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Fwd: Wikimedia Café online meeting for January 2020. Note the schedule change.
by Pine W 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Hello Wikitech-l colleagues, I don't know how much interest there is on Wikitech-l regarding meeting invitations for the Wikimedia Café, but I'm cross-posting this invitation for the to the list. If I hear a bunch of complaints then I will stop the cross-posting of Café invitations when there are not clearly tech-oriented items on the agenda for the Café. However, I would hope that some subscribers to Wikitech-l are interested in the Café. A reminder: you are welcome to add items to the Café's agenda. Best wishes for the new year, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 11:39 PM Subject: Wikimedia Café online meeting for January 2020. Note the schedule change. To: Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello colleagues, The Wikimedia Café meetings have generally been well received. We had approximately seven people in the December meeting. In an attempt to make the meetings be accessible to more people, in January 2020 the Café is tentatively scheduled for a Saturday, and the Café will be earlier in the day. The meeting will be on 25 January 2020 at the following time: 11:30 AM EST, 4:30 PM UTC, and 10 PM ITC. During the most recent Café we had an extensive discussion about documentation for Wikitext and templates. We ran out of time to discuss NavWiki <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NavWiki>. For the January meeting the only non-introductory agenda item so far is NavWiki. You are welcome to add more items to the agenda <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#25_January_2020_at_11:3…> . As usual, the meeting style for the Café will emphasize discussion rather than presentation. People are welcome to participate as listeners only if they prefer. Please see the page on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9> for more information about the Café. Please watch the page for any updates, particularly to the schedule or the agenda. Signing up for the meeting is optional, but is helpful to the organizers so that we can estimate how many people will attend. Signing up for the meeting also informs us who we should notify individually if there are significant changes, such as changes to the schedule. If there are any problems with connecting to the meeting or if you have any questions or comments then please write on the Meta talk page. Best wishes for the new year, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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New year / Nova godina
by Zoran Dori 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Happy new year to everyone!! / Srećna Nova godina svima!! Best wishes! / Sve najbolje! Zoran.

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