Wikitech-l February 2020

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TechCom Radar 2020-02-12
by Alexandra Paskulin 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: RFC Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40010> * Discussed: Config on the RequestContext may not be the same as the main config <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240000> * Opened: Improve file attribution for “Called deprecation function” logs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245075> * RFC review meeting scheduled for next week: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241180> 2020-02-19 22:00 UTC (14:00 PT, 23:00 CET) on Freenode in #wikimedia-office 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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Thank you... twuensday ?
by Derk-Jan Hartman 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Well it's not Tuesday, but better late than never. I'd like to think volutneer DannyS712 [1] who has frankly done a humongous amount of work over the last couple of weeks. DannyS712 has been going through many technical-debt and code cleanup tasks, splitting them and tackling them each one extension at a time, all while working at the same time on their Global watchlist userscript [2] and many other technical tasks on en.wp at the same time. Absolutely impressive. I also want to join [3] VolkerE in thanking MattFitzpatrick, PerfektesChaos and heydonworks for highlighting and persisting on indicating a simple accessibility improvement [4] of the Table of Contents for screenreader users, that will soon be deployed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/DannyS712 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DannyS712/Global_watchlist.js [3] https://twitter.com/Volker_E/status/1227261008059592704 [4] T139221: Make generated table of contents a navigation region <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139221>

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Invitation to apply to Outreachy and Google Summer of Code program with Wikimedia!
by Srishti Sethi 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

*(feel free to forward the message as is to your friends, family members & colleagues)* Hello folks, We would like to invite you to apply to the Outreachy and Google Summer of Code program with the Wikimedia Foundation (a non-profit organization behind Wikipedia)! *About the Outreachy program* Wikimedia will be mentoring ~7 projects in the Outreachy program in the May to August 2020 round. The initial applications are due February 25th at 4 pm UTC. Apply today: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/ Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects with experienced mentors. The internships may include programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and graphic design, or data science. Outreachy internships run twice a year – from May to August and December to March. Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 USD for the three months of work. They also have a $500 USD stipend to travel to conferences and events. Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy sponsors or in jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship. Outreachy is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly invites the following people to apply: * Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. * Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or discrimination in the technology industry in their country or residence is invited to apply. * Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. *About the Google Summer of Code program* Wikimedia is planning to mentor 8-10 projects in 2020’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. Beginning February 20th, pending Wikimedia’s acceptance as a mentoring organization, applicants can begin discussing ideas with the mentors! The student application will be due on March 31st 18:00 UTC: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ Google Summer of Code now in its 16th year, is Google's summer program for university students who want to get involved in open source software. Over 15,960 students from 109 countries have already participated. Google Summer of Code is a unique program that pairs students with mentors who introduce them to the open-source community and provide guidance while they work on real-world open-source projects during their summer break from university. Projects cover a wide range of fields including: Cloud, Operating Systems, Graphics, Medicine, Programming Languages, Robotics, Science, Security and many more. It's a highly competitive program (and this year is expected to be even bigger than last year), so don't wait until the last minute to prepare! *About the Wikimedia Foundation* The Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> is the nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects <https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/>. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. *Resources* * Browse through the participants’ guides, to learn more about the application process steps: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants * All the projects will be showcased here: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2020 We hope you will help us spread the word about Wikimedia’s participation in these programs: https://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/1224790357361098752 (by retweeting the post in the link or by sharing this email) Looking forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti & Pavithra (Wikimedia organization administrators for GSoC & Outreachy) *Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Inform about myself
by yasas ekanayaka 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Hey everyone! I'm Yasas Ekanayaka From Sri Lanka. I'm a University student. I'm following a degree in computer science. I'm good at C/C++, Python, HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, PHP languages and frameworks. I like to contribute your open source projects. Thank you

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Storing some values in the DB
by crawlspaces 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

What about log_search, which is intended for permanent storage of data; could your extension generate a log event and then use that log_id as the ls_log_id? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Log_search_table Maybe there could be a new type of log_type/log_action introduced, e.g. storedata/myextension, if your extension is called MyExtension. Each extension that stores data in this way would have its own log_action, and would generate one or more log events as needed to reserve a log_id(s) for data storage.

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Gerrit +2 for polishdeveloper / pmiazga
by Gergo Tisza 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

Please see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243925 (and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Privilege_policy if you are unfamiliar with the +2 process but curious about it)

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MediaWiki train status update for 1.35.0-wmf.18
by Mukunda Modell 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

When deploying MediaWiki 1.35.0-wmf.18 to Group 2 wikis on Thursday, there was a serious incident which took down all wikis for several minutes and resulted in a rollback to wmf.16. My current understanding is that attempting to deploy wmf.18 again is likely to cause another severe outage. The train remains blocked until the root cause of the outage is identified. Investigation is ongoing. Details and further updates will be posted on the status tracking task for wmf.18[1] and some background on the investigation has been documented in the incident report[2]. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233866 [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200206-mediawi…

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Google Code-in 2019: Read what students worked on
by Andre Klapper 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

A few days ago, Google Code-in 2019 ended. 194 students completed 715 Wikimedia tasks.[1] Big thanks and congratulations to everybody! Read about their GCI experience with Wikimedia in their blog posts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2019#Wrap-up_blog_posts Thanks to our 43 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to everyone on IRC, Gerrit, Phabricator, mailing lists, Github, etc. for your friendliness, patience, support and help. Thanks to Wikimedia org admins for making this run really smoothly. And thanks to Google for organizing this opportunity for young people to learn about and contribute to free software and free knowledge. Google will announce Grand Prize winners and finalists on February 10. We also welcome everybody's feedback what Wikimedia could improve: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Lessons_learned#2019 Sharing some of the students' achievements, to give you an impression: * WMCZ's Tracker software received 40 fixes and improvements * 37 fixes and improvements to the WatchTranslations tool * 24 fixes and improvements to the VideoCutTool tool * 12 fixes and improvements to the WikiContrib tool * Tasks to learn programming in Lua were completed 218 times (such as: Introduction to Lua in Wikipedia, Working with modules, Calculations and tests, Loops and tables, Lua libraries, MediaWiki libraries, Wikibase client, Name formats, Date formats, Using Wikidata) * 13 extensions got extension.json converted to manifest_version 2 * 8 extensions got jshint and jscs replaced with eslint * 5 extensions got jsonlint replaced with eslint * Blockly, Huggle, Phabricator, video2commons, and Wiki Ed Dashboard got migrated to the new Translate validator framework * Flask-JSONLocale received three bug fixes * Watchlist notifications can be delivered as web notifications through Echo (but not enabled yet on Wikimedia sites) * Kiwix Android App has a button to search for a new article * Quarry has a button to toggle syntax highlighting * Wikilink tool has a namespace filter and can filter bot edits * Commons Android App has screenshots in 14 more languages, the username can be clicked in the navigation drawer, an improved share message, and videos for best media upload practices were created * Commons Mass Description tool: /users does not throw a fatal error * EasyTimeline has a system message to track category description * MediaWiki Core's UploadFromUrl::isAllowedHost has tests * Google Drive to Commons tool allows removing files after selection before uploading, and has a redesigned 'upload complete' screen * Hashtags tool allows charts to be downloaded as images * MobileFrontend extension allows turning on the lead paragraph in other namespaces and the nav menu drawer received a CSS shadow * DynamicPageList extension uses page images as the image in gallery mode for pages which are not in the File namespace * MassMailer tool has improved internationalization, its alerts are dismissable, and is integrated with Translatewiki.net * Map of Monuments tool can filter by country and language * Wiki Education Dashboard Android App has better screenshots and a placeholder for empty screens * WikiEduDashboard has a git pull hook to update gems and packages, and its ArticleViewer adds appropriate styling for Wikidata * Music on Wikimedia pages was transcribed to LilyPond 9 times * 4 templates on English Wikipedia received Documentation * A web app to showcase a variety of tools hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge was created * meta:Research_on_open_source_team_communication_tools was expanded * Hackathons of other FOSS orgs were researched, to improve ours * 14 text files in MediaWiki core's /doc got converted to Markdown * Logos designed for VideoCutTool tool, the MediaWiki FormWizard Extension, the Friends of the Docs working group, and the Google Drive to Wikimedia Commons Uploader tool * Designs for "Personal Space Needed" and "Wikimedia Friends of the Docs" stickers created * HD logos were added for several Wikimedia project websites Thanks for helping making free knowledge available to everybody. <3 On behalf of the org admins, andre [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Statistics -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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TechCom Radar 2020-02-05
by Alexandra Paskulin 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Moved to under discussion: RFC Provide a suitable fallback for language access on all skins <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104660>. This RFC impacts how responsive skins in MediaWiki display a page's available languages without JavaScript. * Discussed: Stable interface definition from the draft policy < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy#Definition_of_the_St… >. This policy is under discussion as part of RFC Establish stable interface policy for PHP code <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193613>. The draft is currently open for comments at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Stable_interface_policy>. * Discussed: Test resvg on beta-cluster < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243893>. Although not an RFC, this task relates to RFC Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40010>. * No public RFC discussion meeting next week. 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> -- Alex Paskulin Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2020: Registration Open!
by Rachel Farrand 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

On behalf of Open Labs Albania <https://openlabs.cc/en/> and the Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team we are pleased to announce that registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020/Register> is now open for both scholarships and regular attendees! The hackathon will be held at OFIÇINA <http://www.oficina.al/> in Tirana, Albania between 9-11 May 2020 (please note that this is a Saturday through Monday instead of the usual Friday - Sunday). Additionally, we encourage attendees to stay in Tirana and attend the 7th annual Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) <https://oscal.openlabs.cc/> which will be in the same venue on May 16th and 17th, and will have a Wikimedia Track and mission aligned organizations participating. We have identified two focus areas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020#Hackathon_Focus_Are…> for the event which we will continue to refine and clarify over the next months. As usual, we welcome participants who plan to work on or learn about any project that they like related to any area of Wikimedia Technology. If you have any questions or comments please contact: wiki-hackathon(a)openlabs.cc Otherwise, please continue to follow our program and organizational developments on Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 on Mediawiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020>. Please help us by forwarding this email to relevant lists and looking forward to see you in Tirana! -- Rachel Farrand Senior Program Manager Events Team Wikimedia Foundation

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