Wikitech-l November 2020

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

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List related to repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer
by Zoran Dori 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Hello, can someone to update list https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10500 which contains repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer. I found in list that much repositories are empty, and repositories which aren't available on Gerrit. So, can someone please update this list of repositories (in mediawiki/extensions) which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer, but at least, contains one PHP file. or to provide me command with which I can update list when I want, so I don't need to request it every time. Best regards, Zoran. P. S.: Happy weekend! :)

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Releasing a small tool to explore wikipedia users contributions
by Shrinivasan T 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

Last week, we had a Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020 event. see here for full details https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_2020 Though I did not participate in this event, (feels sad for this. Life is too messy nowadays), I thought to build a small tool to give report on any wikipedia user’s contribution on a given wikisite for a given date range. It may help to calculate, measure, decide on the contributions for such competitions. Mediawiki has a good API to fetch user contributions. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Usercontribs Get all edits by a user. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Usercontribs For my wonder, there was a sample python code on the same page. The code gave only 500 results. I wrote a loop to get the data batch by batch till all the data is received. Published the tool here – https://github.com/tshrinivasan/wiki_user_contributions_report How to run? python3 get_user_contributions.py <language> <wikisite> <username> <start_date> <end_date> This will give the data as a CSV file. Used a csv-to-html converter utility to convert this to a web page with all the data in a sortable table. For my wonder, my friend Dinesh Karthik, converted this as a nice web application with flask, dash and hosted in heroku. https://wiki-user-contributions.herokuapp.com/ Source : https://github.com/Dineshkarthik/wiki-user-contributions Thanks to Info-farmer for providing the idea, Bartosz Dziewoński on wikipedia mailing list for answering all my questions, Dinesh for making a web application quickly. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l is a good place to ask any tech questions regarding wikipedia. Thanks to all wikisource contributors for the event and in general. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com

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"Fixing redirects" to "improve performance"
by Thibaut Payet 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Hi everyone, On the French Wikipedia we're currently reworking our help page about redirects and some of us would like to include a section about common misconceptions, especially those described at <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popup…>. However one user who's used to "fix" redirects is strongly opposed because "this page is from 2006" and it's "unsourced".[1] So I would like to ask the sysadmins from Wikimedia and the MediaWiki developers who are following this mailing list: is this page created in 2006 still true and relevant in 2020? Thank you. -- Kind regards, Thibaut Payet [[User:Thibaut120094]] [1] <https://sigma.toolforge.org/usersearch.py?name=Alaspada&page=Discussion_aid…>

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TechCom meeting 2020-12-02
by Dan Andreescu 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

This is the weekly TechCom board review. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets. This week, the meeting is async, so we'll be replying to the email as well, *feel free to join in*! Activity since Wednesday 2020-11-25 on the following boards: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/ Committee inbox: - Automatically index extensions in Codesearch <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268328> is still in the inbox, no activity since last week's discussion - Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213> is now more clear (see note from Daniel <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213#6653536> to discuss, which we should do here) Committee board activity: - General ParserCache service class for large "current" page-derived data <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227776> was declined by Daniel, see his reasoning there New RFCs: (none) Phase progression: (none) IRC meeting request: (none) Other RFC activity: - RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer for WMF wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40010:> saw more conversation - RFC: Discourage use of MySQL's ENUM type <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119173> Amir points out the need to overhaul all db documentation (I agree, could we have a doc sprint about this?) including policies - RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy, November 2020 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326> has a suggestion/question about clarifying default status and deprecation procedure - RFC: Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362> WMDE calls for help from TechCom and the Platform team to collaborate here. See Adam Shorland's comment about putting it through the new Technical Decision Making Process - RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841> Carly Bogen is asking for clarity on the need for a steward. Timo's comment <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841#6617970> on the task indeed seem to contradict his note from last week's grooming email. Timo, would you please clarify.

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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—December 2nd, 2020
by Trey Jones 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

Hi everyone, The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 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 Join by phone in the US: +1 786-701-6904 PIN: 262 122 849# Hope to talk to you in a week! —Trey Trey Jones Sr. Computational Linguist, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC-5 / EST

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MediaWiki 1.34 is End of Life
by Sam Reed 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle,[1] I would like to announce the formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.34 as of today, Monday November 30, 2020. This means that MediaWiki 1.34 will no longer receive maintenance or security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue to use it. It is recommended to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.35, the current Long Term Support (LTS) version which is not due to become EOL until September 2023. The legacy Long Term Support version of MediaWiki, MediaWiki 1.31, is older and downgrading is not supported. MediaWiki 1.35 bumps the required PHP version from 7.2.9 in 1.34 (which is unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.3.19 or later. Thanks! Sam Reed [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

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