Wikitech-l April 2019

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GSOC 2019 Project Summary
by Richa 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Respected Sir/Madam, Im Richa Shah from V.V.P Engineering College,Rajkot. I’m studying Computer Engineering in 6th Semester. I had Knowledge about C,C++,JAVA,PHP,JavaScript,CSS,HTML... I would like to contribute in project of wikimedia of “Update count without reload the page”. I’ll give my maximum hours in working for this project. I had also participated in India Hackathon 2018. I had good coding skills so that i can use my skills in this project so that it is usefull for the users.

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Persian, Hindi & Kannada! ⏰ Please note: due to European summer time change the meetings now start at 3 pm UTC! ⏰ The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Visual Editor and Media namespace
by Carles Pina i Estany 07 Apr '19

07 Apr '19

Hi, I've setup a Mediawiki for internal usage with VisualEditor. Using the "Edit Source" I can do something like: [[Media:Traduccio.jpg|test]] To have a direct link to a file (instead of the page landing page). Can I achieve the same using VisualEditor? Even a more important question maybe, if a page had a Media link and then I use the Visual Editor somewhere in this page it gets changed by: [//localhost:8080/images/c/ce/Traduccio.jpg test] (note that this instance has $wgServer = "http://localhost:8080"; , but I would like the link to stay as Media:File.jpg or at least to be like /images/c/ce/Traduccio.jpg without the hostname... but ideally leaving the Media) Is it possible using VisualEditor? Some configuration that needs to be changed? I downloaded it from here, shoul be this one: https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/VisualEditor-REL1_31-6854ea0.ta… Thank you very much, -- Carles Pina i Estany GPG Key 0x8CD5C157

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Gerrit ACL updates/phab mirroring
by Tyler Cipriani 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hi All, I wanted to send a heads-up that I've reverted some recent Gerrit ACL changes that I believe have been problematic from a Gerrit operational stability standpoint. These ACL changes have been blocking some Phabricator mirroring, and you may receive emails from Phabricator about old changes being mirrored into Phabricator. Sorry for the noise. Your Gerrit Toiler, -- Tyler

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MediaWiki-CodeSniffer 25.0.0 released
by Kunal Mehta 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello! MediaWiki-CodeSniffer 25.0.0 is now available for use in your MediaWiki extensions and other projects. This release features an upstream update, performance improvements, and tweaks to an existing sniff. Note that libraryupgrader isn't currently working[1], so I'm not planning to bump all repos (I just did core manually). I expect that we'll have another release later this month, so we might just bump directly to that one. Anyways, here's the changelog: * Prohibit aliases is_long, is_double and is_real (mainframe98) * Streamline PHPDoc comment parsing in UnusedUseStatement sniff (Thiemo Kreuz) * Upgrade PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.4.1 (Kunal Mehta) * Whitelist more phan annotations (Kunal Mehta) [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218750 - -- Legoktm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE2MtZ8F27ngU4xIGd8QX4EBsFJpsFAlyn4zIACgkQ8QX4EBsF JpuUjA//TxzsAuTlSqZsGxrS3Rakf2JyEWKBV9OedTUql+a1h+V926eRB90Ec+Up jrfHT9fSg7FaR5QkmstWkBOEIpzjfwGuUhke/3NWD/bgRLEQnmik9zwrPnHjMfvE A646zZo2O5DpRCTvVUius6QQrQgwKXqqFX8vpl55cUgUT4kwFrWs8c7i0k/VcZzs 7zJystKSf/ML4V+jD4PrG0enw7VU7wt38fi1RQvwiJM2/dZUUXF6PrcBzB0vLSdS 2M8X4DpUa7ahy6NehoE28qC98K+B60gdN1VVpStDzDi684pdY9p93lsDCWWlOYH5 MNGrs3QAcP4gt9R+2aTRSQCsrvTI0fF+Ijqr6QYvTOo4NKt6m+AnWQURQnKGdyDH b991cbJtoF75PpYJBJf3IJNPhykK7MRFzwReVL09i4kidwfxewSdH9jqu+PqIkZz EAVG1SbuV0ntdC5BGZtGM02BQQTmyNX+RhNJebKI/n8pkFRf/dV2EMPODRW2kzKw 2fBJi0psCPZbjrwwZnbcf8jQUzit7wnbtAdfLPx+YJX96iSWCx6xhBFqrLsO6zjD RkdiyzRSZGUQSB1YDssbw8YNYjioF7TGWB+U6R4Ci7GtmQHW2go2/0NXD5klw3cz 4i+03fBklnPxMy/sC1+OYpR204J6J3wZtHqhtud/DEgL6EvHA7w= =Dwxc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wikitech-l] resource loader; 1.32 alpha; 1.32 stable breaking change, loading scripts in widgets
by Tom Schulze 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

I agree with Bartosz Dziewoński. However, after checking out the code, I think the reason why I need to change the RLQ push statements is due to the resources/src/mediawiki.base/mediawiki.base.js modifications in v1.32 stable. window.RLQ = { push: function ( entry ) { if ( typeof entry === 'function' ) { entry(); } else { mw.loader.using( entry[ 0 ], entry[ 1 ] ); } } }; It seems hacky, but when using RLQ.push() and mw.loader.using in widgets I now have to use RLQ.push([ [], function () { mw.loader.using('mymodule'); }); Otherwise mw.loader.using won't be defined as the anonymous function is executed instantly (why mw.using.loader is not available globally yet at this time I dont know for sure).

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Easy list whitelist
by RhinosF1 Wikipedia 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hi, Could someone please see if WMF wikis could be whitelisted as a follow up to https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3188? Despite the short term distruption, Could it be placed on Tech News as users were noticing that some pages were blocked? Thanks, RhinosF1

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TechCom Radar 2019-04-03
by Kate Chapman 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Hosted IRC meeting on: RFC: Skin templating <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158> * minutes: <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2019/wikimedia-office.20…> * log: <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2019/wikimedia-office.20…> * No IRC meeting next week * Updates to the draft Architecture Principles have been made based on feedback: <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Engineering_Architect…> 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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2019-04-03 Scrum of scrums meeting notes
by Željko Filipin 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

For HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-04-03 = 2019-04-03 = == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes) * Performance is blocked on input from Core Platform Team/Tim on sampling profiler for PHP 7: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916#5064425 * UI Standardization: New sans-serif font stack for improved mobile reading (MinervaNeue) has been rolled-out: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175877 * Wikimetrics is deprecated, requests redirect now to https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/ We have worked with community Tech team to add couple features to event-metrics that were needed == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** EventMetrics has been demoed to users and is officially available. We are cleaning up some bugs now. ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** More details about our refactor of Blocks here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219441 ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Mobile section editing A/B test running on most wikis ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: Security Concept and Design Review of our Newcomer Homepage * Blocking: * Updates: ** The team is currently coding the start module for the newcomer homepage, and designing the mobile version of the homepage ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ContentTranslation version 2 is default from now unless user has draft already in version 1. ** Cron script to purge old unpublished drafts deployed and running at every 15 days to purge drafts older than 455 days. === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** 6.2.1 release coming up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/ *** Find & Replace *** Editing onboarding *** Other bug fixes & editing enhancements ** 6.3 planning begins ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3-lobster-on-a-motorcycle/) *** Talk pages *** Link wizard *** Citation wizard *** "Open here to edit" analytics ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Summary: technical planning for next year, continuing advanced mobile contributions features and the MobileFrontend architecture investment project. ** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Allow easier access to user modes T218625 **** Upgrade MobileWebMainMenuClickTracking to have an AMC field T218627 **** Skin Contributions and History pages in Minerva for consistency with their mobile replacements T219349 **** Jon working with Volker to improve special pages *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** Refactoring Nearby: Remove messageBox template partial inside Nearby T218813 **** Refactor NotificationsOverlay T219036 **** Refactor BetaOptinPanel T217298 *** ExternalGuidance extension review and support *** Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T214549 T198534 T218731 T219920 ** Quick Surveys *** Allow quicksurveys to target based on registration date T218304 ** Desktop website (Popups) *** Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews **** Bugfix for double pokey on some page previews T204627 ** Planning *** MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Suggested Edits APIs are launched in production (Wikidata) ** PCS/MCS/Maps: Nothing particularly interesting ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** Still working towards 2nd release of SDoC (depicts statements), pretty much code complete but many speedbumps along the way *** Turned on wikidata federation on live commons, and it broke various things. All since patched, working on some integration tests before we try it again (just in case) ** Work continues for subsequent releases ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Porting continues, about 33% done ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Collaboration with Jon Robson last full week on AMC work, bringing *** HistoryAction to OOUI and *** preparing Special:Contributions for the same https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117736, including *** a dozen merged patches for full skinnability on mobile, improved UX and using DateInputWidget for type=>date HTMLForm elements ** New sans-serif font stack for improved mobile reading (MinervaNeue) has been rolled-out: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175877 / https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Projects/Improve_mobile_reading_exper… ** No OOUI release this week, but ongoing work following up AMC work like DropdownInputWidget cross-browser improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194523 == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Kafka total jumbo outage for like 1 hour (this had never happened before) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219842 * Updates: ** Scooping data for mediawiki reconstruction from new analytics labs replica on the beginning of the month. ** Launched small tweak to wikistats UI to better explain wikistats1 users where to find things on Wikistats2, take a look: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/metrics/all-projects [wiki, email] ** Reenabling EventGate in prod and working on changes to be able to persist two streams of data in the new format: api requests and search requests. === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Had to rollback payments wiki cluster php7 and mw upgrade mid week due to problems with our newly introduced Content Security Policy *** the CSP updates were blocking 3rd party 3dSecure iframe content for countries with 3dSecure enabled. ** tech-ops working on a plan to handle the termination of debian jessie backporting (still using some jessie in prod) === Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes) ** Performance is blocked on input from Core Platform Team/Tim on sampling profiler for PHP 7: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916#5064425 * Updates: ** Organizing Q4 work on 2-week sprint schedule ** Hired and welcomed Will Doran, Engineering Manager ** Enterprise MediaWiki conference ** Finish WikiPEG and tokenization ** T198341 (remove usages of some db fields for MCR Schema migration) ** T213893 (maintenance options bug affecting Semantic Mediawiki users) === Performance === * Blocked by: ** Sampling profiler for PHP 7: Blocked on input from CPT/Tim. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916#5064425 * Blocking: ** SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes) * Updates: ** Working with npm support and RelEng to unblock the upgrade of CI jobs from Node 6 to Node 10 (EOL in late April for Node 6): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215562 ** We will switch the WebPageTest agent to use a Docker version on the coming Monday (the 8th) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192050 ** Error handler on mwdebug servers not working. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217846 ** CR for Avoid double parsing during save. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/470099/ ** CR for Graph extension multi-dc caching. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Graph/+/493628/ === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Scoring Platform blocked on releng for the creation of a new repo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212180 * Updates: ** Gerrit going to 2.15.12 (again) ** Quibble in summer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/118/quibble_in_summer/ ** Quibble hibernated, it is time to flourish https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/155/quibble_hibernated_it… ** Train Health *** Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206677 *** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.24 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206678 **** No problemo! 🎉 *** Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.25 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206679 === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Mid-term and annual planning. ** Research is participating in Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. ** Improvements to the section recommendation API. Talking with the Language team about use cases: https://secrec.wmflabs.org/ ** Finished up coding an Oozie job for article recommender: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/analytics/refinery/+/496885 === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: ** Blocked on releng for the creation of a new repo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212180 * Blocking: * Updates: ** Fixing bugs in ORES extension **** Special Contributions/OOJSUI in ORES extenions being worked on by Jon Robson === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Migration of Wikibase search to separate extension finished, cleanup in progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022 ** Commons still not configured properly for search, fixes pending: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218954 ** ES 6 upgrade finalized: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282 ** Cleaning up deprecation warnings from ES6: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218994 ** Setting up CloudElastic servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214921 ** Working on fixing highlighting in Commons inlabel/incaption keywords: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217809 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 ** Working on WDQS performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217897 === Security === * Blocked by:None * Blocking: Growth : waiting on Security Concept and Design Review of our Newcomer Homepage * Updates: ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219289: concept review, SOP in progress ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419: in progress ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289: TBD ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216692: discussions with client ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207990: will be completed this week === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes) * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** New quarter, new goals == TechCom == * Updates ** IRC meeting RFC: Skin templating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158 April 3rd at 2pm PST (22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates:

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resource loader; 1.32 alpha; 1.32 stable breaking change loading scripts in widgets
by Tom Schulze 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

dear all, i experienced breaking changes when loading scripts in the widgets extension through the resource loader. please check the gitlab snippet [1] i created. i did not find any documentation and checked the migration guide [2]. is the code presented in the gitlab snippet good practice? could anyone point me to existing documentation? thank you! tom [1] https://gitlab.com/snippets/1843172 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_(users)#Media…

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