The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month—though this month we're
going to be a week later.
Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query
Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
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. Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-5 / EST
Hi Everyone,
We’re happy to announce the January 2021 edition of the Technical Community
Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2021/January>
is now available. The newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Developer
Advocacy Team. It aims to share highlights, news, and information of
interest from and about the Wikimedia technical community.
Check it out, and learn about what technical contributors have been up to
this past quarter, upcoming conferences & calls for papers, and how to get
involved.
The Wikimedia Technical Community is large and diverse, and we know we
can't capture everything perfectly. We welcome your ideas for future
newsletters. Let us know what you would like to see or highlights you would
like us to include.
Subscribe to the Technical Community Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Technical_Community_Newsletter>,
if you'd like to keep up with essential updates and information
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hi all!
Here's the summary of Wednesday's TechCom meeting. Due to the holidays, there
wasn't much activity, but ther eare a few Last Calls to close, and a couple of
new ones.
Present: Daniel K, Tim S, Timo T, Kate C.
RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841
*
T263841 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841>RFC: Expand API title
generator to support other generated data
*
At end of last call, Accepted (pending finalization per mail, due to lack of
quorum in the meeting)
RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage
*
T208776 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776>RFC: Introduce
PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage
*
Some discussion on names since last meeting
*
TT has outstanding concerns about migration and getWikiId()
*
Keep open for another week.
RFC: Drop support for older database upgrades
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771
*
Move to last call
RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (November 2020)
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326
*
Move to last call
Amend RFC process to allow for three last calls
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment
*
TechCom is seeking to immediately amend the process such that three RFCs can
be on last call (rather than just two). Today's meeting did not have quorum
attendance, so this motion will be decided on asynchronously, and adopted by
next week if consensus is reached.
--
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
The 1.36.0-wmf.25 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0].
The new version is deployed to group(s){0,1}[1], but can proceed no
further until these issues are resolved:
* [Regression] "[dismiss]" button shows up on all pages for no apparent reason
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271365
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 trawler
[0]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267418
[1]. <https://versions.toolforge.org/>
--
Jeena Huneidi
Software Engineer, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-01-06
= 2021-01-06 =
== Callouts ==
* (SRE) In the event that you need to urgently reach SRE for an outage or
other emergency (shell account compromise, etc), well, now there's an app
for that: https://klaxon.wikimedia.org/
** FAQ at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klaxon#FAQ
* (RelEng) Code deploy office hours for deployment questions are still
happening Mondays 18:00UTC (see staff calendar)
== No notes provided ==
Editing, Web, Product Infrastructure, Structured Data, Language, Inuka,
OKAPI, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality and Test,
Security
== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates: Will keep retro form open until 2021-01-13
== Product ==
=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: No updates
=== Anti-Harassment Tools ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: No updates
=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** continuing work on link recommendations:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates: Right-sizing scope of next experiment, development starting.
=== Android native app ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates: Happy to have Jazmin on board! Development work underway on next
version, including watchlist work.
=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Updates:
** Getting back in the saddle after the break.
** Last Monday was the first day of our new engineering team member, Cory
Massaro; general announcement coming later today.
** Process for a community contest to select the logo concept for
Wikifunctions will start shortly.
** Huge thanks to the Security team for their support, meeting with us and
the Architecture team.
=== Parsing ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: no updates
=== Library ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Working on Wikilink user list filtering
** Setting up to work on an Echo notification so that users get notified if
they are eligible for bundle access in the Wikipedia Library
== Technology ==
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Working on eoy donation summary email send which needed updates for new
calendar year
** Close to final approval on CentralNotice CampaignTypes feature with new
user preferences
** Will review other outstanding CN patches this sprint
=== Engineering Productivity ===
==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
**
* Blocking:
** ???
* Updates:
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 -- office hours
for deployments are still happening Mondays 1800UTC
** Train Health <https://versions.toolforge.org/>
*** Last <strike>week</strike>year: 1.36.0-wmf.22 [[phab:T267417]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267417 -->
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 [[phab:T267418]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267418 -->
*** Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 [[phab:T267419]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267419 -->
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Updates:
** Migrate WDQS to Debian Buster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244753
** wdqs1005: disk space critical on /srv/ -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270236
** wdqs-categories prometheus exporter failing on select wdqs instances -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269872
** Some wdqs metrics changed when switching to python3 -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269204
** Service implementation on wdqs101[1-3].eqiad.wmnet -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246345
** The saneitizer is a lot slower than when running in codfw (oct 27 2020
codfw -> eqiad switchover) -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266762
** Deepcategory returns only very few results -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246568
** Examine cases where Blazegraph generates results that timeout and don’t
make it back to the user -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264447
** Spike: Can/should Swift be used as Flink checkpoint backend? -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246004
* Stuff no one else cares about:
** Call to a member function getResults() on null -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268164
=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** the past two weeks were thankfully quiet :)
== Cross-cutting ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** LibraryUpgrader now handles security and linting upgrades in non-master
release branches (currently configured for REL1_35 and REL1_31).
** PHP 8.0 compatibility work continues.
[[Category:Scrum of scrums{{#translation:}}|*]]
Hi all,
Hope you've been well. The Commons Android app team is stoked to be
releasing v3.0 of the app[1] for beta testing! This version has several new
features, including:
- The ability to pause and resume uploads, and the addition of a limited
connection mode
- Structured data integration in our upload flow, whereby users can search
for and select "depicts" for their image
- The addition of a Leaderboard feature in our Achievements pane
- Users can now add and modify categories for their own uploads from within
the app
- New UI with bottom navigation bar
If you'd like to help test the new version, please do sign up[2] for beta
testing on our app's Google Play listing. Feedback, bug reports, and
suggestions are always welcome in our GitHub repo[3]. :)
Thanks for your support!
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
[2]: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/fr.free.nrw.commons
[3]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/
Best regards,
Josephine / @misaochan (Commons app project lead)
Apologies for cross-posting
====
SEMANTiCS - 17th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September
6 - 9, 2021
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/
====
= Important Dates (specific track dates are given below)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: March 29, 2021 (11:59 pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/calls
= Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem21eu#
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2021 EU are planned to be published by Springer
LNCS & CEUR. All proceedings will be made available open access.
SEMANTiCS 2021 EU particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
* Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management, and Deep Semantics
* Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques
* Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
* Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
* Natural Language Processing
* Data Quality Management and Assurance
* Explainable Artificial Intelligence
* Semantics in Data Science
* Semantics in Blockchain environments
* Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
* Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
-------
* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Distributed and Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
We especially encourage contributions that illustrate the applicability
of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate
the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries.
We invite contributions to the following tracks:
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://20201eu.semantics.cc/calls
== Research and Innovation Track ==
The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes papers on novel
scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the
conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must follow the guidelines
given in the author instructions, including references and optional
appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who
will judge it based on its innovativeness, appropriateness, and impact
of results in terms of effectiveness at solving real problems.
= Important Dates:
* Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: March 29, 2021 (11:59 pm,Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Reviews will be carried out in a single-blind mode.
Long papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages and short papers of
6 pages. Submissions should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS
format. The detailed Call for Research and Innovation papers is
available here: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/calls
== Posters and Demos Track ==
The Posters and Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in
progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller
contributions in all fields related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data
in a broader sense. These include submissions on innovative applications
with impact on end users, such as demos of solutions that users may test
or that are yet in the conceptual phase but are worth discussing, and
also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and
potential research or business partners.
= Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 05, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings are planned to be published via CEUR
Workshop Proceedings and should follow the guidelines of the Springer
LNCS format. The detailed Call for Poster and Demos papers is available
online.
== Industry and Use Case Track ==
Focusing strongly on industry needs and ground breaking technology
trends SEMANTICS invites presentations on enterprise solutions that deal
with semantic processing of data and/or information. A special focus of
Semantics 2019 will be on the convergence of machine learning techniques
and knowledge graphs. Additional topics of interest are Enterprise
Knowledge Graphs, Semantic AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Data
Integration, Linked Data & Data Publishing, Semantic Search,
Recommendation Services, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text
Mining, Data Mining and any related fields. All submissions should have
a strong focus on real-world applications beyond the prototypical stage
and demonstrate the power of semantic systems!
= Important Dates:
* Presentation Submission Deadline: April 26, 2021 (11:59 p.m.,Hawaii
time)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 p.m., Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Presentation: July 26, 2021 (11:59 p.m.,
Hawaii time)
Submit your presentations here:
http://2021-eu.semantics.cc/submission-industry-presentations
== Workshops and Tutorials ==
Workshops and Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for
presenting widely recognised contributions and findings to a diverse and
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research and commercial project consortia meetings.
= Important Dates for Workshops:
* Proposals WS Deadline: March 01, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
= Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
* Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 07, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2021 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
== Special Calls ==
Special calls or sub-topics are dedicated towards specific topics that
are of special interest to the SEMANTiCS community. IN case we receive a
sufficient amount of high quality submissions these topics will become
special tracks within the conference program. For 2021 SEMANTiCS
Amsterdam encourages submissions to the following sub-topics:
* Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
* Special Sub-Topic: LegalTech
* Special Sub-Topic: Distributed and Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
Each sub-topic is managed by a distinct committee and encourages
submissions from the scientific or industrial domain. Scientific
submissions will undergo a thorough review process and will be published
in the conference proceedings in case of acceptance. Industrial
submissions will be evaluated and selected according to the quality
criteria of the industry track. WE are looking forward to your submissions!
== SEMANTiCS 2021 EU Organizing Committee ==
The program committee is announced on the conference website
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/committee
= Read a detailed description of all available calls online:
https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/calls
== About SEMANTiCS ==
The annual SEMANTiCS EU conference is the meeting place for
professionals who make semantic computing work, understand its benefits,
and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts
researchers and practitioners alike from a wide spectrum of
organisations ranging from universities, non-profit organisations,
public administration bodies, to SMEs and the largest companies in the
world.
SEMANTiCS is bound to continue a long tradition of building bridges
between like minded but often separated communities of interest. To do
so, the conference aims to explore the intersections, benefits and
hurdles of various traditions in artificial intelligence, machine
learning and semantic processing of graph data and information.
SEMANTiCS invites latest scientific research as well as presentations on
industry implementations, use case prototypes and best practices.
The SEMANTiCS program will provide a rich mix of technical talks, panel
discussions on emerging topics and presentations of practical systems by
people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees will
have a unique opportunity to network with experts in a variety of
fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they
encounter technical challenges in any stage of implementation. The
expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their
careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS the key event
across Europe for a diverse community of industry leaders and academic
experts alike.
Happy new Gregorian calendar year and welcome to 2021.
Let me share some random statistics and numbers from 2020 with you.
Big thanks to our many technical contributors! <3
=== Phabricator 2020 ===
* 29321 tasks got created.
* 26787 tasks got closed.
* 3958 people were active in Phabricator.
* 2349 people created tasks.
* 839 people closed tasks.
* The 20 people who created the most tasks:
DannyS712 729
Reedy 585
Jdlrobson 485
ppelberg 394
Krinkle 302
JosefineHellrothLarssonWMSE 278
Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE 273
Urbanecm 263
kai.nissen 258
RobH 253
Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE 249
Lokal_Profil 239
Marostegui 226
Eric_Luth_WMSE 219
Addshore 217
Tgr 212
Samwalton9 209
ayounsi 204
jbolorinos-ctr 193
Aklapper 191
* The 20 people who closed the most tasks:
Aklapper 1356
Jopparn 654
DannyS712 630
Lokal_Profil 556
ppelberg 484
Reedy 482
Urbanecm 426
Jdlrobson 410
Krinkle 408
kai.nissen 407
Jdforrester-WMF 402
bd808 402
Dbrant 360
Xqt 352
Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE 302
Addshore 298
Lydia_Pintscher 283
Nuria 280
Marostegui 261
hashar 256
=== Gerrit 2020 ===
* 57143 changesets got created. [1]
* 104374 code reviews took place. [2]
* 604 people created patches. [3]
* The 20 people who submitted the most changesets: [4]
DannyS712 2403
Umherirrender 2125
Reedy 1937
Jforrester 1682
Dzahn 1289
Robert Vogel 1223
Jbond 1220
Pwirth 1101
ItSpiderman 1059
Andrew Bogott 1046
Elukey 1029
Xqt 956
Esanders 910
Urbanecm 904
Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 893
Marostegui 838
Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) 812
Legoktm 806
Jdlrobson 700
Zoranzoki21 695
* The 20 people who reviewed the most patchsets: [5]
Jforrester 5931
Daniel Zahn 3945
DannyS712 3870
Jbond 3486
Luca Toscano 2900
Andrew Bogott 2534
Robert Vogel 2506
Moritz Muehlenhoff 2353
Umherirrender 2204
Ppchelko 2192
Marostegui 2117
Patric Wirth 1880
Timo Tijhof 1809
Filippo Giunchedi 1797
Thiemo Kreuz 1707
ItSpiderman 1700
Sam Reed 1637
Martin Urbanec 1595
Jon Robson 1571
Alexandros Kosiaris 1524
No responsibility taken for correctness - software can have boogs. :P
If you find one, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics
Cheerio,
andre
[1] See "Gerrit 🡒 Changesets" on "Gerrit 🡒 Overview": https://wikimedia.biterg.io/goto/ddd6fcf94ec252f23830cdea4d683c62
[2] See "Total Number of Code Reviews 🡒 Approvals" on "Gerrit 🡒 Approvals": https://wikimedia.biterg.io/goto/731a957e7400c3c014eaf3eeb9fbdc7e
[3] See "Gerrit 🡒 Changeset Submitters" on "Gerrit 🡒 Overview": https://wikimedia.biterg.io/goto/ddd6fcf94ec252f23830cdea4d683c62
[4] See "Submitters" on "Gerrit 🡒 Overview": https://wikimedia.biterg.io/goto/ddd6fcf94ec252f23830cdea4d683c62
[5] See "Approvals by Reviewer" on "Gerrit 🡒 Approvals": https://wikimedia.biterg.io/goto/731a957e7400c3c014eaf3eeb9fbdc7e
--
Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2020-12): 304
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2020-12): 999
Task authors in (2020-12): 505
Users who have closed tasks in (2020-12): 258
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2020-12): 263
Tasks created in (2020-12): 1929
Tasks closed in (2020-12): 1813
Open and stalled tasks in total: 46448
* Only open tasks in total: 45603
* Only stalled tasks in total: 845
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 57
Needs Triage: 604
High: 981
Normal: 1354
Low: 1930
Lowest: 1980
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
Active Differential users (any activity) in (2020-12): 5
To see the names of the most active task authors:
* Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/
* Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar
* Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs
* See the author names in the "Submitters" panel
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Fri 01 Jan 2021 12:00:16 AM UTC)