Wikitech-l February 2020

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Search Platform Office Hours Tomorrow!—Feb 5th, 2020
by Trey Jones 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

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! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, Feb 5th, 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 tomorrow! —Trey Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC-5 / EST

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(very) Brief WMCS + wikitech outage Monday 2020-02-10, 15:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

On Monday we'll be restarting the database server that supports most WMCS services. During the restart various things will fail: Wikitech pages will fail to load, OpenStack API calls will fail, etc. In all cases if you encounter an issue you can just count to 20 and try again, by which time things will most likely be back up. Active VMs, tools and other things hosted on toolforge or cloud-VPS should be unaffected. The restart will happen at 15:00 UTC on Monday -- that's 7AM Pacific Time.

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Fwd: [OSM-talk] W3C Maps on the Web workshop
by Pine W 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rushforth, Peter (NRCan/RNCan) <peter.rushforth(a)canada.ca> Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:46 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] W3C Maps on the Web workshop To: talk(a)openstreetmap.org <talk(a)openstreetmap.org> Dear Open Street Map community, I apologize if you are seeing this email for a second time. I sent it originally to the talk-ca list, and I was advised that this list might be more appropriate. My name is Peter Rushforth, and I’m with the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, at Natural Resources Canada (a Canadian government department). We are planning a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) workshop on maps in the Web platform (specifically HTML), together with the W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The workshop will be collocated with the OGC Technical Committee meeting, June 15-17 2020 in Montreal, Quebec. I am sending this email to see if Open Street Map (especially the Web client development teams) might be interested in being invited to participate (by presenting a short position paper, in person) in this workshop on the concept of better integrating mapping into the Web platform standards, and if so, how does Open Street Map see this. Even if you believe that the Web platform standards are already good enough for mapping, it might be worthwhile staking that out as a position. If you are interested, though, we would certainly welcome OSM to also be part of the program committee. The objective of the workshop will be to start the conversation between the geospatial (and geospatial standards) and Web platform communities, about how Web standards could better serve the needs of Web mapping and most especially users of Web maps and the Web in general. Some topics of potential interest include: a native map viewer, similar to that provided for video content standards for how such a map widget might integrate with map services and APIs accessibility of browser maps privacy of user location information security of browser-based maps Integration / relationship of maps and location with other browser APIs, e.g. geo-video, geolocation API, forms, SVG crawling, indexing and searching map information standardized browser elements and APIs CSS styling of maps and map features Map feature creation / input forms federated map services with linking - aka the Web Mostly the agenda will be driven by position papers, and what organizations like yours want to discuss. If OSM is interested in sending one or two people to present a position, please reply directly to me, and I will ensure that you / they are invited. Sincerely, Peter Peter Rushforth Technology Advisor Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada peter.rushforth(a)canada.ca / Tel: 613-759-7915 Conseiller technique Centre canadien de cartographie et d’observation de la Terre Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada peter.rushforth(a)canada.ca / Tél: 613-759-7915 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk(a)openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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[Train] 1.35.0-wmf.16 status update: Remains blocked
by Brennen Bearnes 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

The 1.35.0-wmf.16 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0] from moving to group2. (A previous iteration of this mail that I sent on the 23rd of January indicated that the train had only rolled as far as group0 - that was an error on my part.) The new version can't proceed to group2 [1] until this issue is resolved: * T243548: Elevated response times and CPU usage after deploy of 1.35.0-wmf.16 to all wikis - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243548 If all issues are resolved before 15:00 PST, the train can resume today. Thanks for any assistance! -- Your bemused train enabler [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233864> [1]. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/>

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Commons Android app v2.12
by Josephine Lim 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

Hi all, We've just released v2.12 of the Commons app to production on the Play Store[1]! :) This contains the legacy code overhaul that we've been working on for the better part of the last year, in order to reduce difficult-to-debug issues and create a better foundation for stability and further improvements. One of the goals in this overhaul is to prevent the issue of failed uploads which has plagued our users sporadically for years. According to our beta testers' feedback, this issue has been solved - however, if you are using v2.12 (can be seen in About page) on a *fresh install* and you are still experiencing failed uploads, please do let us know so we can take a look at it. Also, as this version contains the most lines of code changed compared to any of our other versions, it is possible that there may be a few teething issues that we are as of yet unaware about, but we will try to fix any reported issues ASAP. Also, we have a new feature: Filters for place types and states in Nearby Places! With this feature, you should be able to filter for (or filter out) specific types of places that need photos, and also filter out places that are on Wikidata but don't "exist" anymore. Thank you all for your support and patience. :) Best regards, Josephine / @misaochan (Commons app project maintainer) [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons

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