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TechCom Radar 2019-09-11
by Kate Chapman 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * RFC Approved: Define criteria for setting explicit PHP support target for MediaWiki <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228342> Patch available for RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691> (please comment on ticket if you are interested in this) Discussed: Drop IE6 and IE7 basic compatibility and security support. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232563> 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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GSoC 2019 and Outreachy Round 18 are over! Call for projects and mentors for Outreachy Round 19 begins.
by Srishti Sethi 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

Hello everyone, Google Summer of Code 2019 and Outreachy Round 18 are over! See a complete list of 15 projects interns worked on this past summer: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Past_projects#2019, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects#Round_18 If you find a project relevant to your area of interest, you can explore more via the resources mentioned in the links above. Help test the tools or features and share your feedback or any information on bugs you encountered in a comment on the corresponding Phabricator task. Next up is Outreachy Round 19! Wikimedia is participating in the winter edition! If you are interested in mentoring a coding or non-coding (documentation, design, research, outreach, translation, etc.) project, and you are not familiar with the program, reach out to me (via email ssethi(a)wikimedia.org) to learn more about the next steps. If you are already familiar with the program and want to share your idea for a project that you would like to mentor, share in a comment on this Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232048. The *deadline to submit* projects on the Outreachy website is *September 24th, 2019*. Some relevant links: * A recent blog post highlighting one of our intern's and mentor's experience participating in Outreachy program with Wikimedia: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/06/25/wikimedia-and-outreachy-tec… * Outreachy website: https://www.outreachy.org/. * Roles and responsibilities of an Outreachy mentor: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors Looking forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti *Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Gerrit: Internet Explorer no longer supported under PolyGerrit
by Paladox 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

Hello All! PolyGerrit no longer supports Internet Explorer. It never really worked so now the offical status is "not supported". You can use alternative browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Microsft Edge. GWTUI will support internet explorer. Though GWTUI has been removed in newer versions of gerrit.

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[Train] 1.34.0-wmf.22 status update
by Antoine Musso 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hello, Deployment of MediaWiki 1.34.0-wmf.22 on the Wikimedia cluster is currently blocked. It is blocked on a php7.2 bug that has yet to be tracked and determined. Immediately after deploying to group1 (which has commons and wikidata), I noticed an infamous error in the logs: PHP Notice: Undefined index:" Which sounds similar to known errors with php7.2 (T229433, T231089 among others) but this time it hits LBFactoryMulti.php which is for the database load balancing. So that sounds scary and I thus decided to block the train. The notice happens at: $groupLoads[ILoadBalancer::GROUP_GENERIC] The GROUP_GENERIC constant is an empty string. Brad "anomie" Jorsch quickly found out the code always set that key! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232613#5485181 So what is left is a edge case issue in php 7.2, maybe in the opcache or something even scarier. Thanks to Tim Starling, we have a solution to issue a core dump of php when that issue happens. There is already available on the cluster, but it has to be investigated which is not that trivial. -- Antoine Musso

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Making a cross-wiki authenticated call to Wikidata with Wikimedia Android data client?
by Josephine Lim 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hello, We have started using the wikimedia-android-data-client library( https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-android-data-client) to make mediawiki api calls in the Commons Android app, replacing the legacy library that we were using previously. Most of the authenticated calls (i.e. login, upload, nomination for deletion, thank, notifications etc) made to Commons wiki are working with the new library, but we are stuck with a cross-wiki call to Wikidata. We are trying to call `Service:wbcreateclaim` to create a claim on Wikidata but the call is failing. We have posted relevant http logs at https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-android-data-client/issues/21#issue-… We would greatly appreciate it if could take a look at the logs and suggest what we might be doing wrong. Is it because of some issue with cookies? Because as far as we can see, as expected we are sending the params in POST request body with application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Relevant code: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/blob/backend-overhaul/a… Relevant method call: service.postCreateClaim(entityId, snaktype, property, value, "en", csrfTokenClient getTokenBlocking()) Thank you so much! Best regards, Josephine

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+2 request in mediawiki/* for Zoranzoki21 - T231758
by Zoran Dori 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hi, I sent an email on this list before two days about my request for +2 in mediawiki/* per Krinkle's comment in task. [0] But before ~20 minutes I saw comment from Bawolff [1] to my mail isn't sent on this mailing list, AKlapper confirmed [2] to there isn't my mail in archives of this mailing list, so I would like to (again) announce my request for +2 right. Best regards, Zoran. ------ [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231758#5489564 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231758#5494344 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231758#5494359

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Wikimedia service interruptions; phab task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232224
by Pine W 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Discussion in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232224. I had trouble connecting to Phabricator also, so I'm guessing that IRC is a good alternate channel for communications. However, as usual, let's not all pile into IRC, email, and/or Phabricator and say "I'm having problems connecting to Wikimedia sites" when the technical ops folks are working on this. Regards, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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The Community Insights survey (for volunteer devs)
by Johan Jönsson 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hey folks, I'm helping Rebecca Maung (rmaung(a)wikimedia.org) distribute this request. Her words below: The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in the annual Community Insights survey. We want to know how well we are supporting your work on- and off-wiki, and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you are a volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. It is available in various languages and will take between 15 and 25 minutes to complete. Follow this link to the survey: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pSrrkJAKVRXPpj?Target=dev If you have seen a similar message elsewhere and have already taken the Community Insights survey, please do not take it twice. You can find more information about this survey on the project page and see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support contributors like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement. Please visit our frequently asked questions page to find more information about this survey. If you need additional help, send an email to surveys(a)wikimedia.org. Thank you! //Johan Jönsson --

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Scrum of scrums/2019-09-11
by Željko Filipin 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi, for HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-09-11 Željko -- = 2019-09-11 = == Callouts == * SRE says: Possible networking issues at times, redirect bug reports to Numerous people reporting issues saving edits and viewing previews/diffs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232491 as the canonical bug for those * Release Engineering ** Train blocked (Core Platform) - T232613 LBFactoryMulti.php PHP Notice: Undefined index: ** REMINDER: We're at 1.34.0-wmf.22 this week. The last branch for this release will be wmf.25 on 30 September. Teams who want to ship things for MW 1.34 should land them now. (If you do not mark code as deprecated in the next few weeks, you have to maintain it for 9 months.) == Product == === Contributors === ==== Editing ==== * Updates: ** Talk Pages: Team is conducting research this week to identify technical constraints for features we will likely need to build, see what can be learned from existing gadgets ** ve.ui.MWEditModeTool: Fix showing active editor (task T232359) by Bartosz Dziewoński ** Mobile surfaceReady: Account for selection changing in listeners (task T232136) ** Fix HTML blacklist inheritance (task T150418) ** MWLinkAnnotationInspector: track edits to the label field (task T229841) ==== Growth ==== * Updates: ** Set correct merge strategy for help panel links (task T231935) ** Help panel: Right-align the continue button (task T224256) ** [LiquidThreads] Another speculative fix for when topmostThread title is not found (task T61791) === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Updates: ** Development on 6.4 release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.4-seamonkey-on-a-hoverboar… *** iOS 13 & iPadOS updates *** New loading screen for dark mode *** Bug fixes ** Research on 6.5 release *** History & diffs API discussions with CorePlatform https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.5/ *** Diff engine PR is up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228794 ==== Android native app ==== * Updates: ** Gearing up for a minor release. We have pushed a new version to beta: https://play.google.com/apps/publish/?account=6169333749249604352#AppDashbo… ** Currently working on Suggested Edits, V3 on N board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4123/ ==== Product Infrastructure ==== * Updates: ** Research week — full team researching technical requirements for upcoming projects ** Requested DBA & security readiness reviews for MachineVision ==== Structured Data ==== * Blocking: ** Search Platform - Core Platform (or Structured Data?): RecentChange support for SDC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230862 * Updates: ** UBNs to do with entity ids and page ids clashing resolved ** mostly working on Machine Vision project, new input types for statements, and finishing off campaigns work ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232538 blocked on Core Platform Team which blocks deployment to beta cluster which blocks CPT's RESTBase <-> Parsoid/PHP integration testing * Updates: ** Parsoid/PHP: Ongoing round trip testing and bug fixes === UI Standardization === * Updates: ** OOUI v0.34.0 and 0.34.1 released, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v… ** Unifying messages in MW core, shared.css and MF ** Further development on “Components” section for Design Style Guide == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocking: ** Search Platform - Point discovery dashboards at SearchSatisfaction eventlogging table: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229882 === Fundraising Tech === * Updates: ** CiviCRM *** Bugfixes following version upgrade *** Pulling more data from bulk mailing house into Civi https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230509 ** Payments-wiki *** Deployed a bunch of form updates and variants *** Better messaging for donors who cancel from hosted card entry forms: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224063 ** CentralNotice *** Fix to hang on message cache rebuild is going out on train this week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231703 *** Fixed another translatable message bug in the process: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72939 *** About ready to merge campaign fallback: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226344 === Core Platform === * Blocking: ** Wikidata: (not critical blocker yet) We would appreciate review from core/frontend on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208601 / https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/535206 ** Search Platform - Core Platform (or Structured Data?): RecentChange support for SDC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230862 ** Performance: CR of RDBMS change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/394430/ ** Release Engineering - train blocked - T232613 LBFactoryMulti.php PHP Notice: Undefined index: ** Parsing - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232538 blocked on Core Platform Team which blocks deployment to beta cluster which blocks CPT's RESTBase <-> Parsoid/PHP integration testing * Updates: ** Core REST API progress for iOS ** API tests ** OAuth 2.0 development ** Documentation for REST API extensions === Engineering Productivity === ==== Performance ==== * Blocked by: ** Core Platform: CR of RDBMS change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/394430/ * Updates: ** Speaking at Mozilla's Automationeers Assemble tomorrow: https://m.wiki.mozilla.org/Automationeers_Assemble ** Ongoing issue with our WebPageTest instance affecting Chrome Emulated Mobile tests, slower by 1s since September 4 ** A performance regression on enwiki identified as affecting only Firefox in synthetic testing turned out to be a significant DOM element increase due to a Cite template update (migration errors) that happened on September 3 ==== Release Engineering ==== * Blocked by: ** Core Platform - train blocked - T232613 LBFactoryMulti.php PHP Notice: Undefined index: * Updates: ** The phabricator "Report Error Code" form ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/46/ ) has been updated with separate fields for the stack trace and error code/request id. ** REMINDER: We're at 1.34.0-wmf.22 this week. The last branch for this release will be wmf.25 on 30 September. Teams who want to ship things for MW 1.34 should land them now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232026 (If you do not mark code as deprecated in the next few weeks, you have to maintain it for 9 months.) ** Train Health *** Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220746 *** This week: 1.34.0-wmf.22 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220747 **** Core Platform - T232613 LBFactoryMulti.php PHP Notice: Undefined index: *** Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220748 === Scoring Platform === * Updates: ** ORES uwsgi issue --> Tons of Icinga noise https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231222 ** Some people still using wmflabs rather than prod https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231776 ** Fixes "Jade" role in MW Vagrant https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231497 ** Reduced statsd metrics generation for ORES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232164 ** Still waiting for invite to Design Review meetings (Blocked on Design) ** Making progress on MW API for Jade https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199834 === Search Platform === * Blocked by: ** Core Platform (or Structured Data?): RecentChange support for SDC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230862 ** Site Reliability Engineering: dumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222497 ** Analytics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229882 * Updates: ** Restored display of commons image in the sister search sidebar for all wikis except enwiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232032 === Security === * Updates: ** Team survey is out and will close end of week ** Data Map requests for updating / completion will go out to teams on Friday ** No Security Review updates this week === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocking: ** Search Platform on dumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222497. No one working on it yet, we will post an update on task as soon as it happens * Updates: ** Possible networking issues at times, redirect bug reports to Numerous people reporting issues saving edits and viewing previews/diffs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232491 as the canonical bug for those ** wikifeeds is ready to be deployed to kubernetes ** PHP7 ration bumped to 33% ** Resuming work on migrating restrouter == Wikimedia DE == === Wikidata === * Blocked by: ** Core Platform? (not critical blocker yet) We would appreciate review from core/frontend on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208601 / https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/535206

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Raz Shuty 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Questions can be asked in English, Persian, Spanish! The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) 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! -- Raz Shuty Engineering Manager Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment. 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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