Wikitech-l February 2020

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Commons app Android... and iOS!
by Josephine Lim 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

Hi all, We (the Commons app team) are hoping to release a Commons iOS app this year! :) We have received quite a few requests for it, so we have included it in our Project Grant proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Commons_app/Commons_app_Andr… . Additionally, we are proposing a few new features for the Android app, and stability/code quality improvements. If this sounds useful or interesting to you, please do take a look at our proposal, and endorse it if you see fit. Or if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me or post in the discussion page. Thank you so much for all of your encouragement and support. We really appreciate it! Best regards, Josephine / @misaochan (Commons app project lead)

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MediaWiki 1.35.0 development branch point is coming soon (7 April 2020)
by James Forrester 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

All, Just a friendly heads-up that the branch point for MediaWiki 1.35.0 is coming up faster than you expect; we're currently on 1.35.0-wmf.20, and 1.35.0-wmf.7 (in seven weeks' time, *i.e.* on 7 April 2020) will be the final alpha of 1.35, and thus where I cut REL1_35 ahead of rc.0.[0] There are a lot of proposed blockers to the 1.35 release currently tagged on Phabricator[1] (and no doubt some of you have vague plans but don't have them marked out yet). Please do get them done, or re-assess the timeline for your work, and don't get caught out! [0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap [1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/MW-1.35-release Thanks! -- *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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New location for configuring Wikimedia production extensions and skins
by Mukunda Modell 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Hey everyone, TL;DR: We've moved the list of which extensions + skins are included in Wikimedia production branches. make-wmf-branch has been removed and branching is now configured in make-release. As part of the modernisation work for the way MediaWiki code is deployed into Wikimedia production, we have consolidated the code for making the weekly "train" cut with that for making release branches of MediaWiki.[0] This means that the specific configuration file now has a different location and format.[1] This will only affect you if you are involved in helping us add new extensions for production deployment (once they've gone through the full process),[2] or if you own a tool that tries to monitor Wikimedia production deployments. Thank you! [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222829 [1] - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/tools/release/+/master/make-releas… [2] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment

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Phabricator #security => acl*security
by Chase Pettet 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

A small note that the Security <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/security/> tag within Phabricator is now separate from the ACL object <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/30/>. Do not use #Security as an ACL object. This is the outcome of T244165 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244165>. This mirrors the convention for #operations and #acl*operations as expected allowing everyone to join and watch #security related objects on equal footing. Though not everyone will see the same objects depending on membership in acl*security, there are many issues related to security which are not hidden or protected. Best, -- Chase Pettet chasemp on phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/chasemp/> and IRC

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m1 database master (etherpad, bacula, rt, librenms) restart - Thursday 20th 09:00 AM UTC
by Manuel Arostegui 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hello, *Thursday 20th at 09:00AM UTC* we'll be restarting and upgrading db1135 (m2 misc primary database master) as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239791 The specific task for the upgrade is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244238 Impact: The following services will be on read-only for around 1 minute: librenms etherpad bacula racktables rt Sorry for the inconvenience Manuel.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] A monthly purge
by bawolff 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Accidentally replied directly instead of to list like i meant to On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 8:15 AM bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Some back of the napkin math > > If it takes 0.5 seconds to parse a page on average, it would take 289 days > to refresh all the pages on wikipedia (Assuming we aren't parallelizing the > task). It definitely seems like a non-trivial amount of computer work. > > See also discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157670 > (Basically the proposal is, instead of trying to purge everything in > alphabetical order, just start purging things that haven't been purged in > like a year or something. Discussion is fairly old, I don't think anyone is > working on it anymore). > > -- > bawolff > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:50 AM Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > >> >> ‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 20 בפבר׳ 2020 ב-9:26 מאת ‪bawolff‬‏ <‪ >> bawolff+wn@gmail.com‬‏>:‬ >> >>> Pretty sure the answer is no (Although i don't know for a fact). >>> >>> However, parser cache only lasts for 30 days. So pages will get parsed at >>> least once every 30 days (if viewed). However that's separate from links >>> update (aka categories, linter, etc). >>> >>> I suspect that doing a linksupdate of every article once a month would >>> take >>> more than a month. >>> >> >> If it's true, and it may well be, is it conceivable that this will be >> some kind of a continuous process? >> >> >

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A monthly purge
by יגאל חיטרון 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hello. Could you tell me, please, if there is a monthly purge of all pages, or at least all articles, in all wikis? I remember there were plans about this, to aid the Linter, but I don't know what happens now. I consider to suggest a new feature to our Village Pump, but it it can be turned on only with a purging of all articles. Thank you.

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Scrum of scrums/2020-02-19
by Željko Filipin 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hi, for HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-02-19 Željko -- = 2020-02-19 = == Callouts == * SRE blocked by Releng on [[phab:T217924]] (Make canary wait time configurable) == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: ** Increase participation in Scrum of Scrums meeting [[phab:T245278]] == Product == === Community Tech === * Updates: ** The table for watchlist_expiry is created. ** We were having issues with Google approving our extension, and we think we've resolved it. === Anti-Harassment Tools === * Updates: ** Continuing development on CU. === Editing === * Updates: ** Bartosz created a proof of concept that enables us to test Gerrit patches with one click. This project came out of the hack week the team held at the end of December (2019). Demo instructions are here: [[phab:T76245#5788579]] ** Deployed version 1.0 of Replies for Discussionztools to Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias via a query string parameter === Growth === * Updates: ** Newcomer tasks 1.1 (topic matching): building support for loading ORES topic scores into the Search API === iOS native app === * Updates: **Continuing development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration) [[phab:project/view/4273]] === Android native app === * Updates: **Almost done with offline conversion for mobile-html. **In the final design review stage for Suggested Edits V4 feature. === Web === * Updates: ** Summary: continuing desktop improvements (DIP). ** [[Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements|Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP)]]: *** [[phab:T245456|<nowiki>[Dev] Adopt template partials in Vector and revise sidebar component</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:T239269|<nowiki>[SPIKE 16hrs] Add coding convention for new commits to Vector</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T239258|<nowiki>Migrate JavaScript API documentation from jsduck to JSDoc</nowiki>]] ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** [[phab:T245162|<nowiki>Job unable to create file page "Fatal: Call function inNamespace() on null" (via MinervaHooks)</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T32405|<nowiki>[EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page</nowiki>]] *** [[phab:T244444|<nowiki>Replace all possible, non-product specific icons in MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue with WikimediaUI/OOUI ones</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 === * Blocked by: ** SRE on review of Helm charts for proton and mobileapps (no callout needed, they know) * Updates: ** Push notification service planning continues === Parsing === * Updates: ** Parsoid integration into core as a composer library underway ** Parsoid extension API drafting underway - hoping to have a first draft ready by end April === Language === * Blocked by: ** Core Platform: Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued [[phab:T144780]] === UI Standardization === * Updates: ** Preparation of next minor release OOUI v0.37.0, planned for coming week, Tue 25th Feb == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocking: ** Release Engineering: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) [[phab:T210271]] ** WMDE/Wikidata: waiting for updates on [[phab:T236895]] === Fundraising Tech === * Updates: ** More work on recurring donations with backup card processor ** Cleaning up useless data from the CiviCRM database ** CentralNotice work on banner templates and sub-national geotargeting ** Moving more payment processor API response normalization into backend library === Core Platform === * Blocking: ** Language: Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued [[phab:T144780]] ** WMDE/Wikidata: would be happy to get some input/assistance on [[phab:T233520]] * Updates: ** Active development on job queuing ** API gateway and rate-limiting evolving [[Core_Platform_Team/Initiative/API_Gateway/Epics,_User_Stories,_and_Requirements#Epic_3:_Rate_limits]] ** Changeprop k8 to production === Engineering Productivity === ==== Performance ==== * Blocking: ** Release Engineering: Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' [[phab:T245570]] ** WMDE/Wikidata: would be happy to get some input/assistance on [[phab:T233520]] ==== Quality and Test Engineering ==== * Updates: ** Quality and Test Engineering Office Hour *** Friday, February 21 17:00-17:50 UTC *** Topic: Software Testing Anti-patterns ==== Release Engineering ==== * Blocked by: ** Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) [[phab:T210271]] ** Performance: Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' [[phab:T245570]] * Blocking: ** SRE on on [[phab:T217924]] (Make canary wait time configurable) * Updates: ** Train Health *** Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - [[phab:T233867]] *** This week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - [[phab:T233868]] **** (Performance) Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' [[phab:T245570]] *** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - [[phab:T233869] === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** Release Engineering on [[phab:T217924]] (Make canary wait time configurable) * Updates: ** ServiceOps has OKR reprioritization to deal with the aftermath/reasons of the outages. == Wikimedia DE == === Wikidata === * Blocked by: ** Analytics: We're waiting for updates on [[phab:T236895]] ** Core Platform and/or Performance: We would be happy to get some input/assistance on [[phab:T233520]]

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[Train] 1.35.0-wmf.19 status update
by Dan Duvall 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

The 1.35.0-wmf.19 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0]. The new version is deployed to group1[1], but can proceed no further until these issues are resolved: * Varnish 5xx 2k/min spike - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245202 Once these issues are resolved train can resume. If these issues are resolved on a Friday the train will resume Monday. Thank you for your help resolving these issues! -- Your humble train toiler [0]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233867 [1]. https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions -- Dan Duvall Senior Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org>

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Grant request for an AbuseFilter overhaul
by Daimona 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hello everyone! I have submitted a grant proposal on meta for overhauling and modernizing the AbuseFilter extension [1]. The goal of this proposal is to make the extension easier to maintain, with the side effects of simplifying future maintenance and easing feature additions. The grant will also cover a bugfix part and the addition of a community-requested feature. You can find the request here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Daimona_Eaytoy/AbuseFilter_o… If you're interested in this proposal, I invite you to endorse it on meta at the page linked above. If you have any questions, you can use the talk page on meta. Thank you for your time! [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter -- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daimona_Eaytoy "Daimona" is not my real name -- he/him

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