Wikitech-l November 2021

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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—December 1st, 2021
by Trey Jones 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hi Everyone, 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, 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, December 1st, 2021 Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927 Hope to talk to you tomorrow! —Trey Trey Jones Staff Computational Linguist, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC–5 / EST

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Gsoc 2022 contribution
by viren 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Respected organization, I am variya viren 2nd year undergraduate Computer science student I want to contribute to your open source project. As I am intermediate in open-source platform any have experience of it because I am a part of hactoberfect 2021 and girlsScript winter for contribution this both are of open source event. I know C++, C, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and apart from this I have good problem-solving skills because I am a competitive programmer and active user at codeforces, codechef, and leetcode I am very curious to contribute to your project and expand my knowledge, Please give your guidance and proper direction to more ahead Regards, Viren Variya Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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Limit to the number of images in a page?
by Strainu 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hi, I have some wikipages with a large number of images (1000+). Those pages never load completely, as upload.wikimedia.org starts returning 429 Too many requests after a while. This limit does not seem to be documented on mediawiki.org, so I would like to know what it the exact value and if there is a way to work around it (except for splitting the pages). Thanks, Strainu

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Technical Decision Forum community seats
by Taavi Väänänen 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

Hello! I see that the Technical Decision Forum page now includes members in the "volunteers" section[0]. However, I don't see any records of the documented appointment process[1] taking place. How was Mark appointed? When will the documented proper process (or some other public process) be used to appoint community representatives? [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Decision_Forum#Forum_members [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Decision_Forum/Community_Represent… Thanks. -- Taavi (User:Majavah)

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Looking for Open source Project
by Aaditya Prasad 27 Nov '21

27 Nov '21

Hey , I am a second year computer science student and looking for some project to contribute to GSoc2022 as I actively take part in open source events (recently completed Hacktoberfest) and above all , I am a true admirer of free education for all which your organization supports. Kindly reply to me if you have any ongoing project and other sources of information regarding it. Attaching my resume for your reference.

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Start contributing and learning
by Ishan Bhat 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

Dear Sir/Madam, I am Ishan Bhat from India, and I am writing this mail in regard to learning how to contribute to your open source projects. As I am just a beginner, a 12th grade student, I wish to understand and explore this domain, and with your wonderful projects that are already existing, like wikipedia and wikimedia commons, I hope you will be kind enough to share some experience and knowledge to a young and curious learner, like me. Hope to hear from you soon. Regards, Ishan.

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Extensive template dialog improvements for VisualEditor and new wiktext mode
by Timur Vorkul 23 Nov '21

23 Nov '21

// sorry for cross-posting Hello everyone, the *template dialog* in the VisualEditor and Wikitext Editor 2017 will soon be *fundamentally improved*: the sidebar now shows at a glance which parameters are available for a template. Parameters can now be easily added and removed via checkboxes in the sidebar, and a search mask helps you find the right parameter. The parameter name in the sidebar can be used to jump to the respective entry in the main area to save time. Last but not least, the general redesign includes more spacing, a bigger window for better usability and added links to documentation and help pages. All changes are described in more detail on the project page. [1] These changes are the last in the focus area “Making working with templates easier”. [2] We plan to deploy them on a small group of wikis on November 24th. Deployments on more wikis are planned in the next months. If you have any feedback, please let us know on the project’s talk page. [3] Timur for Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/VisualEditor_template… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Templates [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/VisualEditor_tem… -- Timur Vorkul Technische Wünsche Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Bleiben Sie auf dem neuesten Stand! Aktuelle Nachrichten und spannende Geschichten rund um Wikimedia, Wikipedia und Freies Wissen im Newsletter: Zur Anmeldung <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! 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.

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Breaking Change: Extensions Initialization via Composer Autoloading
by Daniel Kinzler 23 Nov '21

23 Nov '21

Hi all! This is a heads up for extensions that expect to be installed via composer: Starting with the release of 1.38, extensions MUST NOT access any MediaWiki functions, variables, or constants in code that is executed by the composer autoloader <https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#files>. The earliest point in time in which extensions MAY access SOME MediaWiki functions, variables, or constants is the registration callbacks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extension.json/Schema#callback>, though restrictions apply <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extension_registration/Limitations> there as well. Note that managing extension installation via composer will continue to work as before for now (though support for this is not well defined, see T250406 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250406>). Support is removed only for interacting with functions, variables, or constants defined by MediaWiki before extension.json is loaded. Doing this has long been known to cause problems, see the discussion on T249573 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249573> and T61872 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T61872>. The immediate reason to remove support now is that we are working on allowing MediaWiki to load configuration from JSON and YAML files <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292402> instead of setting global variables in PHP files. Exploration in this area has shown the need to have external libraries available early on during the initialization process, so we can use them to process settings files. This makes it necessary to change the order of initialization so that the auto-loading component of composer is executed before we set up global state with default settings etc. Because of this, code that is executed by the autoloader cannot have access to things that get initialized later on. This change has already been made to MediaWiki core as deployed on WMF sites. We found out the hard way <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295883> that there are extensions that presently rely on accessing MediaWiki settings from code that runs during autoloader initialization. After some discussion, it was decided that it is time to remove support for this practice, since it has been frowned upon for a long time, and there seems to be no good way to resolve this hen-and-egg problem in the initialization sequence. Please reply to this email if you have any concerns about this change. -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation

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[Ops] 🚂🌈Summary of 1.38.0-wmf.9 train deployment
by Jeena Huneidi 23 Nov '21

23 Nov '21

🚂🌈Summary of 1.38.0-wmf.9 train deployment This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of 1.38.0-wmf.9 - Conductor: Jeena Huneidi - Backup Conductor: Dan Duvall - Blocker Task: T293950 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293950> - Current Status <https://versions.toolforge.org> 🔢 By the Numbers Sparklines comparing with the last 5 trains. - 278 Patches ▄█▅▁▅ - 2 Rollbacks ▁▁▃█▆ - 9 Days of delay ▁▁▂▆█ - 9 Blockers ▇▃▃▁█ ✨ Trainlicious Shoutouts 🌈 Thanks to folks who reported or resolved blockers: - Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) - Brennen Bearnes - Nick Ray - stjn - Samuel - Peter Pelberg - Antoine "hashar" Musso - Amir Sarabadani (WMF) - Urbanecm - Clare Ming - Jon Robson - Majavah - Marostegui - Derk-Jan Hartman -- Jeena Huneidi Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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[Train] 🔥🚂 1.38.0-wmf.9 status update
by Tyler Cipriani 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

The 1.38.0-wmf.9 version of MediaWiki is blocked on group0[0] due to a memory leak. The new version is deployed to group0[1], but can proceed no further until these issues are resolved: * T296098 - 1.38.0-wmf.9 seems to have introduced a memory leak <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296098> Once these issues are resolved train can resume. Thank you for your help resolving these issues! -- Your humble train toiler [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293950> [1]. <https://versions.toolforge.org/> Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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