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Fwd: [MediaWiki-India] India Hackathon 2020 (IH2020)
by Jay prakash 26 Feb '20

26 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 25 Feb '20

25 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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Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons app Android... and iOS!
by Josephine Lim 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Thank you, Sam and Pine! :) P.S. Pine, I can't read Jawi, but "terima kasih" is correct. ;) Best regards, Josephine

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Commons app Android... and iOS!
by Josephine Lim 24 Feb '20

24 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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