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Quality and Testing Engineering Office Hour this Friday...
by Jean-Rene Branaa 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hello All, This week we will be starting a monthly Quality and Testing Engineering office hour series of meetings. The Quality and Testing Engineering office hours will generally have a theme or topic to encourage participation. This month, Željko Filipin from the Quality and Test Engineering team will be hosting a session on "Software Testing Anti-patterns". Logistics: Date - Friday February 21, 2020 Time - 17:00 UTC Meeting URL: meet.google.com/xgq-kyfk-crt <https://meet.google.com/xgq-kyfk-crt?hs=122> Cheers, JR

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Scrum of scrums/2020-02-26
by Željko Filipin 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hi, for HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-02-26 Željko -- = 2020-02-26 = == Callouts == * Language -> Core Platform: Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued [[phab:T144780]] * Release Engineering: [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: [[phab:tag/MW-1.35-release]] == Product == === Editing === * Updates: ** Replying v1.0: On Tuesday, 18-Feb, v1.0 of the new replying workflow was deployed to Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias via a query string parameter (ca be tested by appending ?dtenable=1 to any talk URL on ar, fr, hu or nl talk page) *** Currently checking instrumentation, once any discovered issues are addressed we'll be deploying this as a beta feature ** Replying v2.0: developing technical approach to comment editing and drafting replies in rich text === Growth === * Updates: ** Newcomer tasks 1.1 (topic matching): planning to deploy our upgrade of the topic matching algorithm next week to use ORES articletopics. This upgrade will increase the number of topics available to newcomers from 27 to 64 *** We will be altering the user interface to help newcomers navigate the larger number of topics *** Sort ORES topics alphabetically (task [[phab:T246061]]) *** Add backend support for ORES topics (task [[phab:T243477]], task [[phab:T243359]]) ** Newcomer tasks 1.2 (guidance): adding additional in-context help and guidance for newcomers completing suggested edit tasks *** NewcomerTasks: Add feature flag for guidance (task [[phab:T245525]]) ** Planning to streamline deployments so that we can work with more wikis more quickly ** Homepage desktop and mobile style updates (task [[phab:T232546]], task [[phab:T239442]]) === iOS native app === * Updates: **Continuing development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration) [[phab:project/view/4273]] === Android native app === * Updates: ** Final testing and profiling of mobile-html and conversion logic. ** Final testing of structured image tagging interface. === Web === * Updates: ** Summary: continuing desktop improvements (DIP). The feature manager is well underway in active development iterations, the skin preference has had one patch merged, template partial support caching behavior is being investigated, and there's lots cooking. ** [[Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements|Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP)]]: *** [[phab:T245793|<nowiki>[Firefox 73] Infusing a RadioOptionWidget changes first-child alignment</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T245456|<nowiki>[Dev] Adopt template partials in Vector and revise sidebar component</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T244481|<nowiki>Provide basic FeatureManagement in Vector codebase</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T243281|<nowiki>Build opt-out button for logged-in users with new vector on</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T242381|<nowiki>Add a Vector skin version preference</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T232140|<nowiki>Separate out logo handling into square image logos and long text/wordmark banner logos</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T113095|<nowiki>A cached server-side HTML template should update when you change a partial template which it includes</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T242779|<nowiki>Add Vector and Popups PHP documentation to doc.wikimedia.org</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T242177|<nowiki>Technical: Deprecate mediawiki.skinning.interface in favor of ResourceLoaderSkinModule</nowiki>]] ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** [[phab:T245162|<nowiki>Job unable to create file page "Fatal: Call function inNamespace() on null" (via MinervaHooks)</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T244106|<nowiki>[M] Setup storybook from Minerva</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T243650|<nowiki>Regression: Mobile talk page shows links in overlay header</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T244181|<nowiki>[print] Article title hidden with mobile print styles</nowiki>]] === Product Infrastructure === * Updates: ** Push notification service planning continues. RFC and proposed fiscal Q4 work plan due end of week. ** Patches in progress for proposed MachineVision schema changes to fix slow random image queries: [[phab:T243872]] === Structured Data === * Updates: ** no real change - hoping to release some new input types and constraints next week === Parsing === * Updates: ** Parsing, Release Engr., Service Ops met last week to work through details of Parsoid deployment once Parsoid is in core as a composer library. ** Details in [[phab:T240055]] and being worked on this week. === Language === * Blocked by: ** Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued: [[phab:T144780]] * Updates: ** OpusMT available in Production for en->as language pair. ** ContentTranslation is out of Beta for total 20 Wikipedias! ** Section Translation work in progress. == Technology == === Fundraising Tech === * Updates: ** More work for recurring donation on backup card processor ** Fixing up batch refund scripts ** Deleting gigs of cruft from Civi DB, adding maintenance scripts to keep it trim ** Further harmonizing our use of Civi concepts with how they're intended to be used in Civi core ** Reviewing work on centralnotice banner templates === Core Platform === * Blocking: ** Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes [[phab:T224425]] ** Language: Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued [[phab:T144780]] * Updates: ** New hooks interfaces [[phab:T240307]] ** REST API for jobs ** Hashchecking extension [[phab:T245595]] ** Search API for Desktop Refresh search widget ** Rolling out Changeprop K8S === Engineering Productivity === ==== Quality and Test Engineering ==== * Updates: ** Quality and Test Engineering Office Hour - Topic: Software Testing Anti-patterns [[phab:T241234]] ==== Release Engineering ==== * Updates: ** [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: [[phab:tag/MW-1.35-release]] ** Scap 3.13.0 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/relea… ** Train Health *** This week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - [[phab:T233869]] *** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - [[phab:T233870]] === Search Platform === * Blocked by: ** Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes [[phab:T224425]] * Updates: ** WDQS: Extract more metrics from blazegraph sparql update response - [[phab:T239908]] ** WDQS: Rework how value and reference changes are handled - [[phab:T239687]] === Security === * Updates: ** KaiOS: 3rd party review process should begin soon: [[phab:T240869]] ** Talk Pages review, resolving this week: [[phab:T242134]] ** Fileimporter, next up to resolve: [[phab:T202071]] ** DoubleWiki, next up to resolve: [[phab:T131199]] === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocking: ** PI on proton, mobileapps. * Updates: ** Working with CPT to migrate changeprop to k8s.

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Tech Talk livestream chat transcript (was Re: [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia with Kate Zimmerman, 26 February 2020 @ 6PM UTC)
by James Salsman 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Just now I asked the following question on the Technical Talk livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CRsiwYM9w 10:19 AM: Page 20 of Robert West's 2016 Stanford thesis, "Human Navigation of Information Networks" says, "We have access to Wikimedia’s full server logs, containing all HTTP requests to Wikimedia projects." 10:19 AM: The text is at http://infolab.stanford.edu/~west1/pubs/West_Dissertation-2016.pdf 10:19 AM: Page 19 indicates that this information includes the "IP address, proxy information, and user agent." 10:20 AM: This is confirmed by West at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ0NPhT-fsE&t=25m40s 10:20 AM: Does the Foundation still share that identifying information with research affiliates? If so, how many are them world-wide; if not, when did sharing this information stop? 10:25 AM: MediaWiki @James Salsman I see your question, but donfly. Can we reach out to you after the talk? 10:25 AM: MediaWiki: sorry hit enter too soon! 10:26 AM: MediaWiki: I don't have the full-context of the thesis to ask kate to answer the question on the fly. Can we reach out to you after? 10:26 AM: James Salsman: With whom am I corresponding? 10:27 AM: James Salsman: Sarah? 10:28 AM: MediaWiki: Yes! That's me! 10:28 AM: James Salsman: Would it be easier to ask, "how many research affiliates does the Foundation share server logs with IP addresses?" 10:29 AM: MediaWiki: Yes, I can ask that. 10:30 AM: James Salsman: Thank you. At 10:34, the messages with the the URLs I posted were removed from the chat log. At 10:36, the chat stream was removed from the video, which was replaced with the text, "Chat is disabled for this live stream," and now is completely missing. I am still interested in getting an answer to this question, but disturbed by the removal of links to sources. Could I please have an explanation? Sincerely, Jim

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Help Further develop for Spell4Wiki App
by Manimaran_K 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hi all, I am Manimaran(https://manimaran96.WordPress.com), Free Software Activist and Android Developer. I developing the app called Spell4Wiki. *Spell4Wiki - Spell For Wiki* Spell4Wiki is an mobile application to record and upload audio to wiki commons for Wiktionary words.Spell4Wiki also act as dictionary. Words meanings are come from Wiktionary. *Useful Links* Source code : https://github.com/manimaran96/Spell4Wiki APK : https://github.com/manimaran96/Spell4Wiki/releases/download/devapp_v5/spell… Workflow : https://manimaran96.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/spell4wiki_workflow-1.png Blog : https://manimaran96.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/spell4wiki-mobile-app-to-recor… <https://manimaran96.wordpress.com/2020/02/21/spell4wiki-mobile-app-to-recor…> https://manimaran96.wordpress.com/2020/02/21/spell4wiki-mobile-app-to-recor… While developing I struggled in some places(listed below). If anyone have idea about this please help me... *Problems* 1. While uploading audio some times I got a message “Invalid CSRF”. 2. Once successfully uploaded audio not reflected to UN-Audio words API <https://ta.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=categorym…> and Word’s Wiktionary page. Problem : 1Reason I found 1. I think this comes may be session time out or expire or wrong CSRF token. 2. Once app close session expired What I tried 1. I am saving first CSRF token after login. Then after every edit request use same CSRF token -> Not worked. 2. Every time getting new CSRF token for every edit request -> Not worked. 3. I managed the cookies using android-lib <https://github.com/franmontiel/PersistentCookieJar> -> Not worked. Questions 1. How to solve this? 2. Possible to extend login expire time? 3. Which header/cookie is important for every edit request? Problem : 2 Reason I found 1. I think Wikipedia refresh the UN-Audio word list and Wiktionary word page after specific period of time. What I tried 1. Once user uploaded audio of particular word. Then that word stored in local DB and not showing next time to user -> Not suit for global use. 2. After audio upload edit(Just append text “” empty) the particular word’s page in Wiktionary 1. This time updated in Wiktionary page suddenly but Un-Audio API some times only reflected. 2. Sometime IP blocked due to this type of empty edit. Questions 1. How to solve this? 2. Empty append text in edit action is good or bad? 3. While uploading audio to commons How to manage conflict works or duplicate works? Because lot of user may contribute same word. Some General Doubts 1. Client login or OAuth login - Which one is better? 2. In Which license to release uploaded audio file? Public domain or CC by zero or any ? and reason? I hope i explained my needs clearly. If you have any doubts/questions ask me. I expect collective answers from who are able to help me, at least convey whatever you know. Which is help to further develop. Thanks in advance.

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2020-01
by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2020-01): 317 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2020-01): 1019 Task authors in (2020-01): 550 Users who have closed tasks in (2020-01): 308 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2020-01): 305 Tasks created in (2020-01): 2376 Tasks closed in (2020-01): 2378 Open and stalled tasks in total: 43986 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 8 Needs Triage: 552 High: 952 Normal: 1198 Low: 1692 Lowest: 1712 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2020-01): 14 To see the names of the most active task authors: * Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/ * Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar * Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs * See the author names in the "Submitters" panel TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 . Yours sincerely, Fab Rick Aytor (via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Wed 26 Feb 2020 06:05:12 PM UTC)

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[Wikimedia Technical Talks] Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia with Kate Zimmerman, 26 February 2020 @ 6PM UTC
by Sarah R 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hello Everyone, It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2020 Episode 1! This talk will take place on *26 February 2020 at 6 PM UTC*. This month's talk will be in an interview format. You are invited to send questions ahead of time by replying to this email, or you can ask during Q & A section of the live talk by asking through IRC or the Youtube Livestream. Title: Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia Speaker: Kate Zimmerman, Head of Product Analytics at Wikimedia Summary: How do teams at the Foundation use data to inform decisions? Sarah R. Rodlund talks with Kate Zimmerman, Head of Product Analytics at Wikimedia, about what sorts of data her team uses and how insights from their analysis have shaped product decisions. Kate Zimmerman holds an MS in Psychology & Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon University and has over 15 years of experience in quantitative and experimental methods. Before joining Wikimedia, she built data teams from scratch at ModCloth and SmugMug, evolving their data capabilities from basic reports to strategic analysis, automated dashboards, and advanced modeling. The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CRsiwYM9w During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at #wikimedia-office You can watch past Tech Talks here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te… Note: This is a public talk. Feel free to distribute through appropriate email and social channels! Many kindnesses, Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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Fwd: [MediaWiki-India] India Hackathon 2020 (IH2020)
by Jay prakash 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Sorry for cross-posting. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:48 PM Subject: [MediaWiki-India] India Hackathon 2020 (IH2020) To: MediaWiki development in India <mediawiki-india(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. < wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Greetings from CIS-A2K, India Hackathon 2020 (IH2020) will take place on 27 - 29 March 2020. India Hackathon 2020 will be a 3 (three) days residential hackathon where topics related to MediaWiki, Toolforge will be taken place. Earlier Mediawiki Training iterations were conducted in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019. This year we have a plan for a hackathon. For more information, you can look at - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/India_Hackathon_2020 If any community members from India, who are interested to join this hackathon, please fill this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUdY5HhubTIzVdNwkXJVhvsJdeM4q1Q-o…> . *The last date of showing interest to participate is 1st March 2020.* Thanks and Regards, Jayanta Nath CIS-A2K _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-India mailing list MediaWiki-India(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india

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TechCom Radar 2020-02-19
by Alexandra Paskulin 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi all, Here are the minutes from last week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: RFC Standard method for feature-management in skins/extensions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242835> * Discussed: RFC 2019 Process amendments <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216308> See the latest proposal at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Process> * Hosted public discussion on: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241180> Minutes: < https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2020/wikimedia-office.20… > Log: < https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2020/wikimedia-office.20… > * No public discussion scheduled for 2020-02-26 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> Best, - Alex -- Alex Paskulin Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation

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Mediawiki codesniffer usage
by Zoran Dori 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hello, I have a question. Is anywhere available list of extensions which don't have mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer? Best regards, Zoran Dori volunteer, Wikimedia Serbia s: zoranzoki21.github.io e: zorandori4444(a)gmail.com *Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.*

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New, simple Docker development environment for MediaWiki core
by Brennen Bearnes 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hey all, TL;DR: `docker-compose up` gets you a Docker environment with which to develop. The Engineering Productivity group is happy to announce the availability of a new, official Docker environment for MediaWiki core. [0] This is a component of our work on improving developer productivity, as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's "Platform Evolution" [1] multi-year priority, looking to support faster, more reliable technical change for our communities. We've been exploring options for a year now, and we had a great deal of input, particularly at the TechConf 2019, where Kosta Harlan worked closely with us to move this forward. [2] This new environment has been built for simple experimentation, development, and testing of proposed changes to MediaWiki core. It is designed to be particularly simple and easy to use, and intended particularly to be a good option for newbies, be they testers, designers, developers, or others who have not yet invested a great deal of their time in setting up local environments. We intend for this environment to become the official, supported, and advertised entry point for small-scale development. If you find issues, or have suggestions for improvements, we'd love to hear from you. [3] We will be adjusting various bits of documentation over time to encourage futher use, but if you find some out-of-date instructions, please do fix them, or flag for us to do. We know that there are number of people who need a more complex, configurable, and powerful development and testing environment, even up to being a "Wikimedia production-like" state. This is not that environment; we plan to provide a more configurable and thus more complex, "heavy-weight" alternative for that use case in the future. You may wish to follow our work in Phabricator. [4] Our huge thanks to pioneering volunteer and staff colleagues who have provided support, testing, and advice, and who have explored different uses of Vagrant, Docker, and other techniques for providing better forms of MediaWiki testing, development, and hosting, which have inspired us on how to best provide this. We all owe you a great debt. Thank you. Again, if you have questions, comments, or concerns, please do file a task so that we can help you! [3] [0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Docker [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/… [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238224 [3] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-docker/ [4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/local-charts/ Yours, -- Brennen Bearnes (he/him) WMF Release Engineering

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