Wikitech-l January 2020

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Re: [Wikitech-l] onVerifyFileUpload error message not displayed 'as is' in visual editor upload form
by Tom Schulze 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Hi Bartosz, thanks a lot for testing this for me. I just realized that using your hook (UploadVerifyUpload) instead of UploadVerifyFile works as intended. I added my old code snippet to yours at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10258 for the sake of clarity. -- Tom Schulze

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Regarding GSoC 2020
by Gollavilli Srikanth 26 Jan '20

26 Jan '20

Dear Community Members, I am Srikanth Gollavilli from India. Currently, I am pursuing Masters in Geoinformatics from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). I have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. I have development experience in python, PLSQL, C++, IoT, postgresql, GIS tools, spatial database, ENVI softwares. Also I am comfortable with version control systems. I am interested in Machine Learning, Image Processing, Remote Sensing, client server architecture and interoperability. I am fond of open source community as it provides me an opportunity to keep my skills updated, helps to build connections and improve communications skills thus I would love to contribute to Wikimedia in Google Summer of Code 2020. My Github link: https://github.com/SrikanthIITB

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Request of user Zoranzoki21 to get +2 right in mediawiki/*
by Zoran Dori 26 Jan '20

26 Jan '20

Hi, per rules, I'm posting here my request to get +2 right in mediawiki/*. URL to request on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243700 Best regards and wishes, Zoran.

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New Tool from Community Tech: Who Wrote That?
by Ilana Fried 25 Jan '20

25 Jan '20

Hello everyone, I’m very excited to share a new tool created by the Community Tech team: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Who_Wrote_That%3F>Who Wrote That[1], available as a <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/who-wrote-that-beta/ekkbnedhfelfa…>Chrome[2] and Firefox[3] browser extension. We developed this tool in response to the <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Search/Blame…>#4 wish[4] from the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey[5]. With Who Wrote That? (WWT), you can find authorship information directly on Wikipedia articles. When you hover over content, the tool highlights all content by the same author. When you click on content, the tool identifies the author of the revision, along with revision details. We would love your feedback[6]! You can download the <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/who-wrote-that-beta/ekkbnedhfelfa…>Chrome[2] and Firefox[3] extension, and documentation on the tool is available on the MediaWiki WWT page[1]. The data and analysis in WWT come from the WhoColor API[7], developed by WikiWho[8], and the MediaWiki API. We hope that you all enjoy using the tool! Thank you, Ilana Fried Product Manager, Community Tech [1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WWT [2]. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/who-wrote-that/ekkbnedhfelfaidbpa… [3]. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/whowrotethat/ [4]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Search/Blame… [5]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017 [6]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Who_Wrote_That_tool [7]. https://api.wikiwho.net/en/whocolor/v1.0.0-beta/ [8]. https://www.wikiwho.net/

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Introduction
by Bobga Hermann N. 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Sent from Mail for Windows 10 Hello, I’m Bobga Hermann, a software engineering student from the College of Technology of Buea, Cameroon. Please I’ll like to be guided on a starting point on projects to work on concerning the Gsoc Program from Google. I skilled with knowledge in html5 and css3, including experience in Graphic Designing. I await your reply, thank you.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.32 is End of Life
by James Forrester 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 08:53, Peter Presland <peterp(a)wikispooks.org> wrote: > Per other replies about php version requirements and the putative > difficulties involved for Redhat OS users, I am left wondering about how > important the stated Mediawiki php version requirements really are. > > My wondering is prompted by the fact that both Wikipedia and the few > other MW foundation sites I have checked, are all running MW1.35.0 > while still on php 7.2.26. Whereas the stated php minimum version > requirement for the current latest stable MW1.34 is php 7.2.9. > > Probably a simple explanation but as a Centos 7 OS user, I am confused. > Per the support policy for PHP <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Support_policy_for_PHP>, recently codified, in picking our support framework for major PHP versions we try to carefully balance the needs of new sysadmins, where we should encourage people to make secure choices, with upgrading sysadmins, who will want the simplest upgrade path possible. In practical terms, we only increase the minor PHP version when we find particular upstream bugs in PHP that are not sensible to work around, or where our upstream dependencies insist on it. That's why we require 7.2.9 instead of 7.2.0 – we had to pick for 1.34 when dropping PHP 7.1 and 7.0 (see T234766 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234766> and the corresponding patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/542220>). For Wikimedia production, we run the latest version in Debian stable (with any necessary local patches), to take advantage of upstream performance improvements, bug fixes and so on, and to ensure we can respond to incidents as appropriate. Right now that's 7.2.26, up from 7.2.24 over the last few months. It's always a better idea to run the latest version of PHP recommended by your OS. MediaWiki will explicitly refuse to run on versions of PHP we don't support, with a specific error message (as will composer when you try to install dependencies), to avoid any mysterious run-time errors and corruptions. Yours, -- *James D. Forrester* (he/him <http://pronoun.is/he> or they/themself <http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself>) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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onVerifyFileUpload error message not displayed 'as is' in visual editor upload form
by Tom Schulze 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

dear all, i am trying to carry out some custom checks before uploading a file in mediawiki. i face the challenge that i cannot pass my own error messages to the visualeditor upload form. whatever error message i declare in the onVerifyFileUpload hook gets displayed in VE as This file did not pass file verification. my error message that i declare in the hook 'gets aggregated' in UploadFromChunks.php:201. ($this->getVerificationErrorCode()) i also tried other hooks to intercept/manipulate the error but to no avail (ApiMain::onException,APIGetAllowedParams, APIAfterExecute). i use mediawiki 1.32.2. is there a way i did not think of to display a custom error message in my case? thank you and kind regards, tom

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How to alter the Visual Editor configuration object for tool bar
by Egbe Eugene 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Hi All, How do I access the configuration object for the main toolbar of VisualEditor and add a new option to this to represent a new tool? below is the image of the tool bar I am referring to. Thanks, -- Eugene233

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PyCon Financial Assistance and Development Sprints Info
by Brooke Storm 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Hello Folks! For the Python enthusiasts on these lists, I’m signal boosting this message with info on PyCon dev sprints and financial assistance for the conference from a former Wikimedia colleague. I plan to attend PyCon this year and am also hoping to figure out setting up a development sprint around some Wikimedia Cloud Services and Toolforge code. Brooke Storm SRE Wikimedia Cloud Services bstorm(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:bstorm@wikimedia.org> IRC: bstorm_ --------- Forwarded message ———— <snip> I wanted to mention - feel free to pass this on publicly and in personal invitations - that PyCon North America, mid-April in Pennsylvania, offers financial assistance to people who would like to attend: https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/ <https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/> The deadline for requesting financial assistance is 31 January. PyCon loves to cross-pollinate with other free and open source movements, and I know there are many Python developers in Wikimedia tech. If Wikimedians want to use the April 20-23 in-person sprints https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/ <https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/> (will be editable soon) to work on Wikimedia-related Python tools together, that would be cool! Best wishes. -- Sumana Harihareswara Changeset Consulting https://changeset.nyc <https://changeset.nyc/>

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[Train] 1.35.0-wmf.16 status update (blocked)
by Brennen Bearnes 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

The 1.35.0-wmf.16 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0]. The new version can't proceed to group1 and group2 [1] until this issue is resolved: * T243548: Elevated response times and CPU usage after deploy of 1.35.0-wmf.16 to all wikis - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243548 If all issues are resolved before 15:00 PST, the train can resume today, otherwise the train will resume Monday, February 3rd at the earliest. Please note that there are no deploys during the week of the Wikimedia Foundation's annual All Hands gathering. Thank you for your help resolving these issues! -- Your bemused train enabler [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233864> [1]. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/>

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