Wikitech-l October 2020

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Scrum of scrums/2020-10-07
by Deb Tankersley 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Hello, This email contains updates for October 7, 2020. For the HTML version, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-10-07 Cheers, Deb ------------------------ *= 2020-10-07 =* == Callouts == * SRE: MediaWiki DC switchback to eqiad will be Tuesday, October 27. Services switchback will be either the following day or the day before, TBD. == Product == === Structured Data === * Updates: "beta" milestone for mediasearch == Technology == === Site Reliability Engineering === * Updates: ** S5 replication broke on some hosts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263842, IR draft https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200925-s5-repl… ** MediaWiki DC switchback to eqiad will be Tuesday, October 27. Services switchback will be either the following day or the day before ** Service 2 Service communication now all encrypted ** Digicert unified cert renewal still in purchasing, we’re using LetsEncrypt at all edges for now, with Globalsign also available as a backup if necessary. -- deb tankersley (she/her) sr program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Interested in working on the project "Refactor Selenium tests and perform cleanup"
by Ratnabali Dutta 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Hi, I'm Ratnabali, I'm an Outreachy applicant. I went through the "Refactor Selenium tests and perform cleanup" project description and found it to be really interesting. I would like to work on the project and would appreciate any help on how to get started with first-time contributions. Best Regards, Ratnabali Dutta.

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pageview dumps for 2020-09?
by Gabriel Altay 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Apologies if this is the wrong list, but it appears that the page views dumps for september were stalled on the 24th https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/2020/2020-09/ <https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/2020/2020-09/> and the full month dump (pagecounts-2020-09-views-ge-5-totals.bz2) was not generated, https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/ does anyone know what the situation is? best, -Gabriel

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cloud-vps vulnerability discovered -- please check project membership
by Andrew Bogott 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Earlier today a vulnerability was uncovered that might have permitted unauthorized users to manipulate project membership or create or delete VMs within cloud-vps. That issue has since been resolved, and there is currently no evidence that anyone exploited it. Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution: if you are a project admin, please review the members and projectadmins of your project. If you see any unknown or untrusted users or unexpected instances, remove them and notify me directly about what you found and what you've done. Thank you! -Andrew + the WMCS team

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Fwd: Public API for Wikimedia map tiles to be discontinued in 45 days
by Erica Litrenta 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

[crosspost from Maps-l] Today the Wikimedia Foundation is announcing the deprecation of the public API for Wikimedia map tiles. Around mid October the Foundation will end support for the Wikimedia Maps Service API [1]. This change affects people using Wikimedia maps on their own website or app. Maps on the Wikimedia sites, in Wikimedia-hosted tools and gadgets, and on maps.wikimedia.org won't be affected. This decision was made based on recent outage incidents, primarily due to spikes in third party usage, along with an analysis showing that more than a third of maps provided are to non-Wikimedia services (including many to for-profit organizations). After the most recent incident [2], the service was limited so that only cached maps tiles would be available. While this protected the servers, it made the service unpredictable and highlighted the unsustainability of our tile service. So, we have made the decision to discontinue the maps APIs for non-Wikimedia users. This change will allow our teams working on Maps to focus on the sustainability of the maps used within Wikimedia projects. You can follow the implementation of this change on Phabricator [3]. Best, Erica Litrenta [1] https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/ [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200204-maps [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261424 -- Erica Litrenta Manager, Community Relations Specialists https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)

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Tests namespaces
by Martin Urbanec 04 Oct '20

04 Oct '20

Hello everyone, today, I looked to a handful of unit and integration tests in MediaWIki core, and I noticed we do not have a single namespace pattern for tests. I would find it natural for integration tests (that are already in the integration subfolder) to be in MediaWiki\Tests\Integration namespace, and unit tests to be in MediaWiki\Tests\Unit. This would allow those two kind of test to use "same" class name, and would avoid hacks similar to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/631818/13/tests/phpunit/u… . However, I'm not sure if this pattern I described in previous paragraphs is the best one, and what is the best way of going forward in this case. Thanks for any comments, Martin

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[MediaWiki-Docker] Change to working directory
by Jeena Huneidi 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Hi, This is an informational message for users of MediaWiki-Docker. We just merged a change[0] to Mediawiki-Docker's working directory. This change was made in order to support rest.php[1]. It also makes use of a new docker image that fixes issues with loading pages with slashes in VisualEditor[2]. As a result of this change, your existing LocalSettings.php file may point to the wrong database directory. Although there is a script that should update it automatically for you[3], you can take a look at the DEVELOPERS.md troubleshooting section in core if you happen to run into an issue connecting to your database. [0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/626144 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261051 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262392 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/releng/dev-images/+/refs/hea… -- Jeena Huneidi Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Deployment of MediaWiki 1.36.0-wmf.11: status is blocked
by Mukunda Modell 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

This week's deployment branch of MediaWiki encountered multiple issues during deployments, first on Wednesday and again on Thursday, ultimately ending in rolling back to wmf.10 each time[1]. Further, Thursday's deployment resulted in a security incident which is currently still under investigation[2]. Due to the ongoing investigation, deployments of wmf.11 are blocked until further notice. You can find more information in Phabricator and I will update this mailing list when the status changes. Sincerely, The humble train conductor. 1. T263177 1.36.0-wmf.11 deployment blockers <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263177> 2. T264370 User authentication security issue (Oct 1) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264370>

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Logging everyone out
by Chris Danis 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Everyone on all Wikimedia wikis has been logged out, and will have to log back in again. This was done out of an abundance of caution, after we received one (1) user report of being logged in as someone else. Said report coincided with the deployment of a new MediaWiki release which caused other problems around User session objects; this is possibly related and under active investigation. We believe the number of possibly-affected users was small, and that the time window in which the error was possible was short. However, we believe that resetting all sessions is a prudent measure to ensure that the impact is limited. More details to follow, after technical investigation has determined a cause. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264370 Apologies for the disruption, -- Chris Danis (he/him) Staff Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Wikimedia Phabricator Tutorial Videos available on Commons
by Andre Klapper 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Hi everyone, if you've also sometimes wondered about using Wikimedia Phabricator or struggle a bit with it: I made some tutorial videos how to best use it (including English subtitles). They are now linked from the top of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help and can also be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Phabricator_Tutorial_Series Subtitle translations to other languages would be really welcome! :) And if you think that something common and important is missing in those videos, please share your thoughts for a revised edition in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263480 Cheerio & thanks!, andre -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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