Wikitech-l October 2021

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Regarding Contribution in your Organization
by Ayush Gadre 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Hello! I am Ayush Gadre. Sophomore at Institute of Engineering and Technology DAVV Indore. I want to learn about open source and want to contribute in your organization. 1. Education : - B.Tech 2. Experience :- Web development Internship from LetsGrowMore 3. Skills :- HTML, CSS, JS and React JS I would love to join your open source community and learn from your mentors. I'm looking forward to being accepted to your group to learn more about the projects. So, I hereby request you to please add me in your mailing list or on your channel. Github :- https://github.com/Ayushgadre Linkedin :- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushgadre/ Thank you for your consideration. Regards, Ayush Gadre

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🚂🌈 Summary of 1.38.0-wmf.5 train deployment
by Antoine Musso 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of 1.38.0-wmf.5 which has been successfully completed last week. * Conductor: Antoine "hashar" Musso * Backup Conductor: Ahmon Dancy * Blocker Task: T281169 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281169> * Current Status <https://versions.toolforge.org> 🔢 Numbers Sparklines comparing with the last 5 trains. * 351 Patches ██▁▂█ * 0 Rollbacks ▁▃█▁▁ * 0 Days of delay ▁▁█▁▁ * 3 Blockers ▄█▇█▁ ✨ Traintastic Folks 😻 Thanks to folks who reported or resolved blockers: * Jon Robson, remembered me about JavaScript client side errors to be taken of * Elena and Joseph Seddon, flagged a blocker for group 1 ahead of time and got it fixed with Simone Cuomo. * Subramanya Sastry, who has noiticed a missed class in Parsoid * C. Scott, Lucas Werkmeister who promptly addressed deprecation errors * Ahmon Dancy for being the backup conductor and closely watching error logs Antoine "hashar" Musso

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[Last Reminder] Coolest Tool Award: Two more days for your nominations
by Andre Klapper 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Hi everyone, Last reminder: You have 2 days left to submit your Coolest Tool Award nominations. Please recommend your favorite tools! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award Thanks! andre, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2021 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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🚀 Umherirrender receives Web Perf Hero award!
by Krinkle 23 Oct '21

23 Oct '21

We are happy to announce that Umherirrender has received this quarter's Web Perf Hero award. Umherirrender has initiated and carried out significant improvements to the performance of MediaWiki user preferences (T278650 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phab:T278650>, T58633 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phab:T58633> , and T291748 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phab:T291748>). The impact is felt widely and throughout Wikimedia sites. For example, when switching languages via the ULS selector, or exploring Beta Features and Gadgets, or switching skins. These are all powered by the MediaWiki "Preferences" component. The work included implementing support for deferred message parsing in more HTMLForm classes, and applying this to the Echo and Gadgets extensions. This cut API latency by over 50%, from 0.7s to 0.3s at the median, and 1.2s to 0.5s at p95. (See graphs at T278650#7130951 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phab:T278650#7130951>). This ward is given to individuals who have gone above and beyond to improve the performance of Wikimedia Foundation sites. It's awarded once a quarter, and takes the form of a Phabricator badge More information and past recipients: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Performance_Team/Web_Perf_Hero_awa… Phabricator badge: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/view/17/ -- Timo Tijhof, on behalf of Wikimedia Performance Team.

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Production Excellence #36: September 2021
by Krinkle 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents We've had quite an eventful month, with 8 documented incidents in September. That's the highest since last year (Feb 2020) and one of the three worst months of the last five years. - 2021-09-01 partial Parsoid outage <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-09-01_parti…> - Impact: For 9 hours, 10% of Parsoid requests to parse/save pages were failing on all wikis. Little to no end-user impact apart from minor due to RESTBase retries. - 2021-09-04 appserver latency <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-09-04_appse…> - Impact: For 37 minutes, MW backends were slow with 2% of requests receiving errors. This affected all wikis through logged-in users, bots/API queries, and some page views from unregistered users (e.g. pages that were recently edited or expired from CDN cache). - 2021-09-06 Wikifeeds <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-09-06_Wikif…> - Impact: For 3 days, the Wikifeeds API failed ~1% of requests (e.g. 5 of 500 req/s). - 2021-09-12 Esams upload <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-09-12-Esams…> - Impact: For 20 minutes, images were unavailable for people in Europe, affecting all wikis. - 2021-09-13 CirrusSearch restart <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-09-13_cirru…> - Impact: For ~2 hours, search was unavailable on Wikipedia from all regions. Search suggestions were missing or slow, and the search results page errored with "Try again later". - 2021-09-18 appserver latency <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-09-18_appse…> - Impact: For ~10 minutes, MW backends were slow or unavailable for all wikis. - 2021-09-26 appserver latency <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-09-26_appse…> - Impact: For ~15 minutes, MW backends were slow or unavailable for all wikis. - 2021-09-29 eqiad kubernetes <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-09-29_eqiad…> - Impact: For 2 minutes, MW backends were affected by a Kubernetes issue (via Kask sessionstore). 1500 edit attempts failed (8% of POSTs), and logged-in pageviews were slowed down, often taking several seconds. Remember to review and schedule Incident Follow-up work <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4758/> in Phabricator, which are preventive measures and tech debt mitigations written down after an incident is concluded. See also Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>. Trends The month of September saw 24 new production error reports of which 11 have since been resolved, and today, three to six weeks later, 13 remain open and have thus carried over to the next month. This is about average, although it makes it no less sad that we continue to introduce (and carry over) more errors than we rectify in the same time frame. On the other hand, last month we did have a healthy focus on some of the older reports. The workboard stood at 301 unresolved errors last month. Of those, 16 were resolved. With the 13 new errors from September, this reduces the total slightly, to 298 open tasks. Figure 1: Unresolved error reports by month. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/259/production_excellence…> For the month-over-month numbers, refer to the spreadsheet data <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTrUCAI10hIroYDU-i5_8s7pony…> . Did you know - 💡 The default *"system error" page now includes a request ID*. T291192 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291192> - 💡 To zoom in and find your team's error reports, *use the appropriate "Filter" link in the sidebar* of the workboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/>. Outstanding errors Take a look at the workboard and look for tasks that could use your help. → https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/ Last few months in review: Jan 2021 (50 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/gn7TOpf2LdVE/#R>) 3 left. *Unchanged.* Feb 2021 (20 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/xQxnXZys4q97/#R>) 5 > 4 left. Mar 2021 (48 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/To0edISjsA9s/#R>) 10 > 9 left. Apr 2021 (42 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/ORxSVxnJBlLc/#R>) 17 > 10 left. May 2021 (54 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/9y.PWGoGgWbK/#R>) 20 > 17 left. Jun 2021 (26 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/DlpqBkLj0aP4/#R>) 10 > 9 left. Jul 2021 (31 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qQAV178rYaJ_/#R>) 12 left. *Unchanged.* Aug 2021 (46 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/i1wawBd5GKVY/#R>) 17 > 12 left. Sep 2021 (24 issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/BA8dqsGwaE_a/#R>) 13 unresolved issues remaining. ------------------------------ Tally 301 issues open, as of Excellence #35 (August 2021) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/248/production_excellence…> -16 issues closed, of the previous 301 open issues. +13 new issues that survived September 2021. 298 issues open, as of today (19 Oct 2021). Thanks! Thank you to everyone who helped by reporting, investigating, or resolving problems in Wikimedia production. Thanks! Until next time, – Timo Tijhof 🔗 Share or read later via <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/240/> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/259/ <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/259/production_excellence…>

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MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.0 is ready for testing
by Sam Reed 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.37.x. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As with every release of MediaWiki, a large number of changes have landed in the last six months (over 1700 commits since 1.36.0 was cut), and you should read over the preliminary release notes as part of assuring yourself of areas that may have issues with your configuration, your skins, and/or your extensions. As always, please try out the release candidate in a test environment and do report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.37-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release, to make sure that we find them as quickly as possible. It is expected that MediaWiki 1.37 will become final in November 2021, though the date may slip if blockers are identified. Preliminary release notes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_37/RELEASE-NOTES-1.37 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.37 Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4928/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.37-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.zi… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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[Reminder] Nominate your favorite tool until October 27 for the Coolest Tool Award
by Andre Klapper 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Hi everyone! Just a reminder that there is one week left to submit your Coolest Tool Award nominations. It only takes a few minutes to fill the form in! Please recommend your favorite tools by October 27nd: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award Thanks! andre, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2021 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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🚂🌈 Summary of 1.38.0-wmf.4 train deployment
by Brennen Bearnes 18 Oct '21

18 Oct '21

This email is a summary of last week's Wikimedia production deployment of 1.38.0-wmf.4: Conductor: Ahmon Dancy Backup Conductor: Brennen Bearnes Blocker Task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281168 Current Status: https://versions.toolforge.org/ 📈 Numbers Sparklines comparing with the last 5 trains. 273 Patches ▇██▁▂ 0 Rollbacks ▃▁▃█▁ 0 Days of delay ▃▁▁█▁ 8 Blockers ▃▁█▆█ ✨ Traintastic Folks 😻 Thanks to folks who reported/resolved blockers, and otherwise assisted with this train: Jon Robson Bartosz Dziewoński Zabe xSavitar Tim Starling Majavah James D. Forrester DannyS712 ppelberg EAkinloose Krinkle -- Brennen Bearnes Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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GitLab update: You can log in now
by Brennen Bearnes 18 Oct '21

18 Oct '21

= tl;dr = Users with Wikimedia developer accounts can now log in to https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/ and create projects under their user namespaces, regardless of institutional affiliation. = The longer version = Hey all, This is an update on the Wikimedia GitLab project[0]. GitLab access was formerly restricted to WMF/WMDE/NDA users. We've lifted that restriction.[1] With that out of the way, we're working to sort out open questions about use of shared CI runners[2] and what Docker images they're allowed to run[3], along with shoring up various aspects of our infrastructure, cleaning up some lingering authentication bugs, and integrating with other development services and communication channels. In general, you can follow this project as a whole on Phabricator, on the GitLab workboard.[4] As ever, questions are welcome on Phab, in #wikimedia-releng on libera.chat, or directly in e-mail. [0]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Roadmap [1]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288162 [2]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292094 [3]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291978 [4]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/gitlab/ Best, -- Brennen Bearnes Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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GitLab update: You can log in now
by Brennen Bearnes 18 Oct '21

18 Oct '21

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