Wikitech-l March 2019

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Patchsets by new Gerrit contributors waiting for code review and/or merge
by Andre Klapper 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

CR0: Please review and provide guidance if you are familiar with the code, and decide (CR±1 or CR±2): * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/462155/ ** Adds alternative file icon paths ** 2018-October-14 ** Maintainers/Stewards: MediaWiki Platform team? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/skins/Material/+/471766/ ** Add scrollbar:: to view more content on sidebar ** 2018-November-06 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Cargo/+/480039/ ** Added new feature: order virtual fields by the order they inserted to list on cargo store ** 2018-December-17 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/SecurePoll/+/463610/ ** Change SecurePoll auth-api.php to a MediaWiki Action API module ** 2019-Jaunary-12 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/473769/ ** Fully utilize LinkTarget passed to getRevisionByTitle ** 2019-January-08 ** Maintainers/Stewards: MediaWiki Platform team? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/GoogleAnalyticsMetr… ** fix: non-ascii page title bug ** 2019-January-20 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/OdbcDatabase/+/4875… ** Fix OdbcDatabase to work under 1.32 and with current ExternalData ** 2019-February-02 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/PipeEscape/+/486043/ ** Convert PipeEscape to use extension registration ** 2019-January-23 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/FirstSteps/+/492460/ ** Convert FirstSteps to use extension registration ** 2019-February-27 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? CR+1: Please help make a decision (CR±1, CR±2) on these CR+1 patches: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/472758/ ** Added Id to the input box ** 2019-January-07 ** Maintainers/Stewards: MediaWiki Platform team? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/472184/ ** Avoid hitting DB in Category getters when they have the required info ** 2018-November-23 ** Maintainers/Stewards: MediaWiki Platform team? Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review#By_project how you can get notified of new patches in your code areas of interest. Thanks in advance for your reviews! Of last time's 12 listed patches, 4 got abandoned by HerrTaschenbier, Zfilipin, Eileen; 1 got -2ed by EBernhardson; 2 got 1-ed by Thiemo, cscott. Maintainers/Stewards data taken from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers CR0 source: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/ownerin:newcomers+status:open+label:Veri… CR+1 source: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/ownerin:newcomers+status:open+label:Veri… -- Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Fresnel for MediaWiki (performance testing)
by Krinkle 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

You may have noticed something called "mediawiki-fresnel" leaving messages on Gerrit patches for MediaWiki in the past few days, and wondering what it's all about. Allow me to introduce Fresnel! Fresnel is an automation tool for measuring and comparing client-side performance from web pages. Fresnel was developed over the past two quarters and is now ready for action. [1] [2] [3] To learn more about how to use it, what it offers, and how it works, check out: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Fresnel Some feature highlights: - ⏱ *Metrics* from Navigation Timing, Paint Timing, and Resource Timing APIs. - 📊 DevTools *Timeline* from CI recording can be viewed locally in Chrome. - 🖼 Recordings take a *screenshot* available in build artefacts. - 🔥 Scenarios perform a *warmup* and multiple runs for more stable metrics. -- Timo Tijhof [1] Launch task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133646 [2] Phabricator project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/fresnel/ [3] Task list: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/9w6EAEPPLQ72/#R

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TechCom Radar 2019-03-06
by Kate Chapman 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Last Call extended by one week: RfC: Standards for external services in the Wikimedia infrastructure. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208524> ending March 13 11pm PST (March 14 7:00 UTC, 8:00 CET) * On Last Call: The Great Namespaceization and Reorg <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010> ending March 20 1pm PST (20:00 UTC, 21:00 CET) * Accepted as an RFC: Make clean script path the default canonical url for the Main Page <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216791> * Accepted as RFC. Please comment on Phab ticket. RFC: Skin templating <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158> * Hosted IRC meeting this week: RFC: Abstract schemas and schema changes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191231> * Minutes: <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2019/wikimedia-office.20…> * Log: <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2019/wikimedia-office.20…> * IRC Meeting Scheduled: RFC: Add a frontend build step to skins/extensions to our deploy process <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004> March 20 2pm PST (21:00 UTC, 22:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office * IRC Meeting Scheduled: RFC: Let's stop using QUnit as a mechanism for integration tests <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212521> March 20 2:45pm PST (21:45 UTC, 21:45 CET) in #wikimedia-office * TechCom internal meeting shifted 1 hour later next week 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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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—March 6th
by Trey Jones 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come ask us anything about Wikimedia search! We’re particularly interested in: * Opportunities for collaboration—internally or externally to the Wikimedia Foundation * Challenges you have with on-wiki search, in any of the languages we support But we're happy to talk about anything search-related. Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2018 Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 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 *N.B.:* Google Meet System Requirements <https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473> Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation

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Looking for a mentor with experience in building tools for Wikimedia
by Egbe Eugene 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Hi All, In view of building a tool which will help users contribute to add structured data on WM Commons, there's need for someone with experience to supervise in the development and testing of this tool. Please feel free to hit me up if you have any further questions. Kind regards Eugene233

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2019-02-25
by Chris Koerner 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2019-02-25. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * New extension WikibaseCirrusSearch [0], encapsulating search code from Wikibase [1], is deployed on Beta [2] and will be tested on production next week [3]. *New phan checks are enabled for CirrusSearch and WikibaseCirrusSearch === Wikidata Query Service === * Stas fixed issues with small negative data display [4] and breakage in short URLs due to Bootstrap security fixes [5]. == Events and News == * We'll be holding our next Search Platform Office Hours on Wednesday, March 6th: **Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET **Etherpad: [6] **Google Meet link: [7] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215684 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217276 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211007 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217161 [6] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours [7] https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww ---- 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 Yours, Chris Koerner (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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1.33.0-wmf.20 schedule this week
by Antoine Musso 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hello, I will be updating MediaWiki this week. I am Europe based, and here is my planned schedule: Tuesday March 05 13:00 UTC: cutting branch wmf/1.33.0-wmf.20 14:00 UTC: rebuild, sync, deploy to test.wikipedia.org Wednesday March 06 Due to personal convenience, I will deploy in my evening. 20:00 UTC: deploy to group1 Thursday March 07 14:00 UTC: deploy to all other wikis The deployment task is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206674 which I should keep updated as we progress this week. Thank you. -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led projects
by Pine W 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Forwarding in case people are interested in seeing what was funded. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:06 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led projects To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi folks, In the latest round of Project Grants, the committee has recommended 20 projects for a total of approximately $678,666 USD in funding. We received 42 proposals for review, the largest round of proposals we’ve received in a single round. Please join me in congratulating the applicants! I’d also like to express my thanks to all applicants this round for their hard work and engagement with their proposals, and to the Project Grants Committee for their careful diligence in reviewing and providing crucial feedback during this round. Without further ado, here’s what we’re funding:[1] ==Software: five projects funded==* Commons Android app v3: This third version of the Commons mobile uploader app aims to increase app stability, improve a recommendations feature for nearby places, maintain a limited connectivity mode, and provide better outreach to underrepresented communities. [2] * Scribe: Scribe is an editing tool to support underserved Wikipedia editors, helping them to plan the structure of their new articles and to find references in their language.[3] * Culture Gap Monthly Monitoring: The Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory (WCDO) proposes a set of solutions to regularly assist communities and individual editors to increase the cultural diversity in their language editions’ content.[4]. * GlobalFactSyncRE: GlobalFactSyncRE will extract all infobox facts and their references to produce a tool for Wikipedia editors that detects and displays differences across infobox facts in an intelligent way to help sync infoboxes between languages and/or Wikidata. The extracted references will also be used to enhance Wikidata.[5] * Wikidata & ETL: This project aims at improving management and increasing automation of processes loading data into Wikidata, and proposes a tool as a platform for creation of repeatable processes for bulk loading data into Wikidata and other Wikibase instances from various data sources.[6] ==Online organizing: four projects funded==* Wiki Loves Monuments international team/2019 coordination: The international coordination team for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) [7] proposes to strengthen the foundation for healthy and sustainable WLM competitions across the world. In this grant, the team will focus considerable effort on increasing the sustainability of these events by addressing known issues around developing best practices, resourcing local teams to run successful events, and adapting to mobile engagement.[8] * CEE Spring 2019: This annual international article writing contest generates content from every country and region in Central and Eastern Europe on 30+ Wikipedias. CEE Spring’s remarkable community spirit plays a central role in fostering a thriving, collaborative volunteer base in the region. The grant will continue incentivizing content creation focused on similar themes from last year, including closing the gender gap, and expanding minority language Wikipedias, and showcasing the cultural heritage of Central and Eastern Europe. [9] * WM HU/Editor retention program: This grant will fund the editor retention program in the Hungarian Wikipedia. The project helps the Hungarian Wikipedia community in decreasing the negative experiences and strengthening the positive experiences of the contributors; improving the community atmosphere and strengthening the community cohesion, the Wikipedia identity, the sense of mission and pride in Wikipedia.[10] * VisibleWikiWomen2019: Whose Knowledge?, in partnership with Wikimedians and women’s and feminist organizations around the world, is organizing a campaign to add more diverse and quality images of women to Commons and Wikipedia throughout March 2019 to celebrate International Women’s Month. This year, the organization plans to take what they have learned from 2018 #VisibleWikiWomen and grow the campaign, creating more materials and connections that will be useful for this year’s campaign and many more years to come.[11] ==Offline outreach: ten projects funded==* Smithsonian Wikimedian-in-Residence for Gender Representation: This project will establish a Wikimedian-in-Residence for the Smithsonian Women's History Initiative, and increase the representation of women on Wikimedia projects, and seek ongoing support for a permanent Wikimedian-in-Residence at the institution.[12] * Action Plan for Wikipedia + Libraries Training in Mexico: OCLC will investigate the viability of and approach to a Wikipedia+Libraries training program for library staff in Mexico, to leverage the libraries in support of the Wikimedia Foundation’s New Readers initiative. This project will identify a Mexico-based organization that would lead the training, develop an advisory group, and produce an action plan for how to design and deliver the training.[13] * Offline Wikipedia in Senegal Schools: The problem this project plans to address is the absence of an easy, rapid and reliable way to access the treasure-trove of information contained in Wikipedia. The Offline Wikipedia in Senegal Schools project is a Train the Trainers project: trainers will attend a seminar teaching them about offline Wikipedia the Kiwix program. They will then go out to remote schools in and in turn run a seminar presenting Kiwix to the teachers. This seminar will be part of the certification process.[14] * Heritage GLAM: This project will focus on growing successful GLAM partnerships with government institutes, capacity building and documenting rare archives, books and artwork of historical and cultural importance to North India with no or little online presence via our project Wiki Loves Heritage. A part of the project will also be focused on integration of content with Wikisource and Wikipedia.[15] * Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO 2019-2020: Past engagement with UNESCO has demonstrated that working with Wikipedia to share knowledge allows UNESCO to reach a far wider public with detailed information that traditional report publication. The applicants have prepared a roadmap to mass adoption of open licensing and sharing of content on Wikimedia projects across the UN. By the end of this grant in early 2020, the project will result in policies, documentation and processes in place to share knowledge from across the UN on Wikimedia projects. [16] * Wiki Loves Africa 2019: Funding for this project will support prize distribution efforts associated with local contests supported by Wiki Loves Africa 2019, an annual public contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.[17] * Wiki Kouman 2019 en Côte d'Ivoire (Local langua in Côte d'Ivoire): The aim of the WikiKouman project is to increase the visibility and content of Côte d'Ivoire’s local languages through the Wiktionary and other related projects. WikiKouman derives its etymology from Dioula, one of the local languages, in which "Kouman" means "to speak"[18] * History of Quebec and French-speaking North America: This Wikimedian-in-Residence project with the Fondation Lionel-Groulx (FLG) aims to build and support the community of individuals and organizations interested in developing and improving wikimedia contents pertaining to the history of Quebec and French-speaking North America.[19] * Wikipedia Women and Ancestral Knowledge from the Global South in the Colombian context: In collaboration with Centro de Internet y Sociedad Universidad (ISUR), this project is aimed at supporting indigenous communities in Colombia to participate on Wikipedia and enhance the participation of women through promotion of digital skills and article development on multiple Wikipedia projects to represent their knowledge.[20] * Editathons in Pistoia district: The project centers on an edit-a-thon series in the Pistoia district of Italy. This grant is a way to get a complete deep-level coverage and to develop a model for localized work for other regions in Italy.[21] ==Research: one project funded== * Machine Learning to Predict Wikimedia User Blocks: This project will involve investigating user misconduct on English Wikipedia using machine learning techniques to better understand and predict what circumstances lead to user blocks. [22] With thanks, Chris Schilling 1. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Browse_applications> 2. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Commons_app/Commons_Android_… > 3. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Scribe:_Supporting_Under-res… > 4. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WCDO/Culture_Gap_Monthly_Mon… > 5. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSyncRE> 6. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/MFFUK/Wikidata_%26_ETL> 7. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_interna… > 8. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments> 9. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikimedians_of_CEE/CEE_Sprin… > 10. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WM_HU/Editor_retention_progr… > 11. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Whose_Knowledge/VisibleWikiW… > 12. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Effie_Kapsalis/Smithsonian_W… > 13. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/OCLC/Action_Plan_for_Wikiped… > 14. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Offline_Wikipedia_in_Senegal… > 15. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM> 16. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/UNESCO/Wikimedian_in_Residen… > 17. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019> 18. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Modjou/Wiki_Kouman_2019_en_C… > 19. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/History_of_Quebec_and_French… > 20. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ISUR/Wikipedia_women_and_anc… > 21. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Editathons_in_Pistoia_distri… > 22. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/University_of_Virginia/Machi… > Chris "Jethro" Schilling I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> He/His/Their Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> _______________________________________________ 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>

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TechCom Radar 2019-02-27
by Kate Chapman 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * On Last Call ending March 6 1pm PST(21:00 UTC, 22:00 CET) RfC: Standards for external services in the Wikimedia infrastructure <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208524> * Approved: Update to Gerrit privilege policy <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216295> (also approved by CTO) * IRC meeting next week March 6 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office RFC: Abstract schemas and schema changes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191231> * Scheduling IRC discussion soon RFC: Add a frontend build step to skins/extensions to our deploy process <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004> * Scheduling IRC discussion soon RFC: Let's stop using QUnit as a mechanism for integration tests <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212521> * RFC: Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362> reviewed and needs further discussion. * There was no IRC meeting this week 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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Code sniff for verbose conditionals
by Daimona 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Currently, there's a patch under review [0] to enable a PHP sniff which would detect so called "Pointless conditionals". These are conditionals (if...else or ternary) where both branches only assign or return a boolean value, and which could potentially one-lined using the if condition. T

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