As of 950cf6016c, the mediawiki/core repo was updated to use DB_REPLICA
instead of DB_SLAVE, with the old constant left as an alias. This is part
of a string of commits that cleaned up the mixed use of "replica" and
"slave" by sticking to the former. Extensions have not been mass
converted. Please use the new constant in any new code.
The word "replica" is a bit more indicative of a broader range of DB
setups*, is used by a range of large companies**, and is more neutral in
connotations.
Drupal and Django made similar updates (even replacing the word "master"):
* https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877
* https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692/files &
https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a023…
I don't plan on doing anything to DB_MASTER, since it seems fine by itself,
like "master copy", "master tape" or "master key". This is analogous to a
master RDBMs database. Even multi-master RDBMs systems tend to have a
stronger consistency than classic RDBMs slave servers, and present
themselves as one logical "master" or "authoritative" copy. Even in it's
personified form, a "master" database can readily be thought of as
analogous to "controller", "governer", "ruler", lead "officer", or such.**
* clusters using two-phase commit, galera using certification-based
replication, multi-master circular replication, ect...
**
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Appropriateness_of_…
***
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium…
--
-Aaron
// sorry for cross-posting
Hello,
A lot of heated discussion occur on talk pages – thus, edit conflicts
happen on talk pages a lot. To be able to solve these more effectively, the
Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional user
interface for this situation. This interface is shown to you when you write
on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the
same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict
interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment.
If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project
page [1].
This interface is created as a result of the Technical Wishes survey [2] in
2015, in which the German Wikipedia community wished for a simpler way to
resolve edit conflicts. For regular edit conflicts on article pages, the two
column conflict user interface was created, which has been available as a
beta feature since November 2018. The plan is to make this additional
interface for talk pages available in a few months.
We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature and let us
know what you think on our central feedback page [3]! -- For the Technical
Wishes Team: Max Klemm
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_c…
[2]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_20…
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View
--
Max Klemm
Working Student Community Communication for Technical Wishes
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0https://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our
vision!https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello,
The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee
candidates are (In alphabetical order):
- Amir Sarabadani
- Martin Urbanec
- MusikAnimal
- Tonina Zhelyazkova
- Tony Thomas
And auxiliary members will be (Also in alphabetical order):
- Huji
- Jayprakash12345
- Matanya
- Nuria Ruiz
- Tpt
You can read more about the members in [0]
The changes compared to last term are:
* Lucie has resigned in September 2019. Tpt (as one of auxiliary members)
filled her seat in the meantime and now Tpt is moving to be an auxiliary
member again.
* Martin Urbanec is joining the main committee to fill Lucie/Tpt seat
* Jay Prakash is joining auxiliary members
* Rosalie is leaving the auxiliary members.
This is not the final structure. According to the CoC [1], the current
committee publishes the new members and call for public feedback for *six
weeks* and after that, the current committee might apply changes to the
structure based on public feedback.
Please let the committee know if you have any concern regarding the members
and its structure until *09 June 2019* and after that, the new committee
will be in effect and will serve for a year.
[0]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates
[1]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_m…
Amir, On behalf of the Code of Conduct committee
Best
Hey,
A quick update. In order to improve its security, from now on,
ticketmasters don't need to know your username and password (and don't send
them your desired username and password anymore). You ask them a token and
they generate you an one-time-use token for you and then you can use that
in https://meet-auth.wmflabs.org/create to create your account for yourself.
Stay safe, stay home.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:11 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I told so many times WMF should support infrastructure for the
> volunteers, so thank you very much for this step in that direction.
> A.M.
>
> Il domenica 26 aprile 2020, 01:08:01 CEST, Tito Dutta <
> trulytito(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> Hello,
> That's super great news. I definitely want to try it. Thanks a lot for
> working on this.
>
> Thanks
> Tito Dutta
> Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind
> me over email or phone call.
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 01:57, Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> > "Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in
> Wikimedia
> > CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using commercial
> > services like Zoom which might have security and privacy implications
> > [1][2]. Currently it's a jitsi (jitsi.org) installation.
> >
> > If you want to just use/test it, let me know and I create you a user and
> > password. You can share the username and password with anyone you want to
> > meet but please do not post it publicly. In your email you can also give
> me
> > your desired user and password. **Do not reuse any password**. You can
> also
> > contact any of the ticketmasters instead of me:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet#List_of_ticketmasters
> >
> > In order to make this project more robust, I'm looking for Ticketmasters
> > too, Ticketmasters create accounts for others (It doesn't require any
> > technical knowledge, you fill a form in web for others)
> >
> > If you want to help maintaining it (which would be greatly appreciated)
> let
> > me know and I give you the needed access. I put the technical
> documentation
> > in mediawiki.org [3]. There are several bits you can help with, like
> > puppetizing it, scalability, observability, improving authentication,
> > trying to see if BBB can be used as well, and so much more. You can find
> > the tickets in the phabricator board and assign a ticket to yourself if
> you
> > feel like helping out.
> >
> > [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet
> > [1] https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/
> > [2]
> >
> >
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security…
> > [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet
> >
> > Hope that would be useful for our users :)
> > Best
> > --
> > Amir (he/him)
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--
Amir (he/him)
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, May 6th, 2020
Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
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 in about a week!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
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The 1.35.0-wmf.30 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0], and has been
reverted to group0.
The new version can't proceed to all wikis until this issue is resolved:
* LoadBalancer: Transaction spent [n] second(s) in writes, exceeding the
limit of [n]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251457
Per policy, if all issues are resolved before 15:00 Pacific, the train
can proceed to all wikis. Otherwise, the train is likely to resume
Monday, May 3rd at the earliest.
Thanks for any help in resolving this issue.
-- Your anxious train adjunct
[0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249962>
[1].
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20200430T1300>
Hello,
can someone help me with this:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251371#6095785 ?
Why composer test fails for me locally?
Best regards,
Zoran Dori
volunteer, Wikimedia Serbia
s: zoranzoki21.github.io e: zorandori4444(a)gmail.com
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