Wikitech-l November 2021

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Looking for API Stakeholders
by Linh Nguyen 19 Nov '21

19 Nov '21

Hi everyone, My name is Linh and I'm a project manager on the Platform team at Wikimedia. Our API Platform team is putting together a "pre-mortem" session. We are looking for a few tech community members who would be stakeholders in the API platform we are developing. The pre-mortem objective is to get your feedback on different scenarios we have. We are looking at a sync meeting for around an hour. In the next few days, If you are interested in helping us out, please let me know. Thank you, Linh

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How to get started with contribution
by Sarthak Deshmukh 19 Nov '21

19 Nov '21

Respected Sir / Madam, I am Sarthak Deshmukh.I am currently in my B.Tech second year at Walchand College Of Engineering, Sangli. I am new to open source & I have a good idea about Git & Github. I am well aware of C, C++, HTML, CSS, Python and some basic concepts of Javascript. I would love to contribute to your organisation but I don't know how to get started. So, can you please tell me how to get started ? Hoping to hear from you soon. Regards, Sarthak Deshmukh.

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Announcing MediaWiki 1.37.0
by Sam Reed 18 Nov '21

18 Nov '21

I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.37! Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Please note that MediaWiki 1.37 (as did 1.36) now requires the PHP internationalization extension, commonly referred to as Intl, ext-intl, or php-intl. As a reminder, 1.31 (the old LTS) became end of life in September 2021. 1.35 (the new LTS) is supported until September 2023. Note that the patches in comparison rc.2 are much larger than usual due to the re-introduction of translation backports. This only includes updates for MediaWiki core and bundled skins. Extension updates will follow in the next point release (along with further updates for MediaWiki core and the bundled skins). MediaWiki 1.37 will be supported until November 2022. MediaWiki 1.38 is due to be released in May 2022. === Changes since MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.2 === * Remove justinrainbow/json-schema from vendor. * Updated pear/mail_mime from 1.10.9 to 1.10.11. * Update deprecated Guzzle Psr7 function calls. * (T281972) UserIdentityValue: Correct @since tags. * Updated wikimedia/parsoid from v0.14.0-a19 to v0.14.0. * Localisation updates. * Tweak error message for missing composer dependencies. 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.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0.zip Patch to previous version (1.37.0-rc.2): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0.patch.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0.patch.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Release Notes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.37

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2021.11 (Bug fix release)
by Kartik Mistry 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2021.11. This is a bug-fix release. Previous release was [ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-i18n@lists.wikimedia.… MLEB 2021.10]. This bundle is compatible with '''MediaWiki 1.35.3''' or above and requires '''PHP 7.3.19''' or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 2 months. If there are very important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]]. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2021.11.tar… * sha256sum: 07e697bfed3ef153c421a760221e93f0e3fef70a8db54defd59c4608b4d56352 * Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2021.11.tar… Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1464/ Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Babel, cldr, LocalisationUpdate, CleanChanges and UniversalLanguageSelector == * No changes. == Translate == * Fix compatibility with MediaWiki <= 1.37 when VisualEditor is installed. ([[phab:T294605|Phab:T294605]]) -- Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી kartikm.wordpress.com

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PHP RFC: Deprecate dynamic properties
by Tim Starling 14 Nov '21

14 Nov '21

FYI: the PHP RFC to deprecate dynamic property assignment is now in the voting stage. If this RFC is accepted, dynamic property assignment will raise E_DEPRECATED in PHP 8.2 unless the #[AllowDynamicProperties] attribute is set on the class. I'm voting no on this, on account of the amount of migration work I think it will create for us. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_dynamic_properties -- Tim Starling

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MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.2 is ready for testing
by Sam Reed 10 Nov '21

10 Nov '21

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.2, the second 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 this will be the final release candidate, and that MediaWiki 1.37 will become final in late 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 Changes since 1.37.0-rc.1: * (T295173) Re-add wikimedia/normalized-exception to vendor. * Remove wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper, psr/simple-cache, psr/http-factory from vendor. * (T295191) ApiQuerySiteinfo: Fix "rightsinfo"/"url" when $wgRightsPage is set. * (T212428) Allow populateContentTables to continue when there are bad blobs. 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.2.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.2.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.2.zip Patch to previous version (1.37.0-rc.1): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.patch.z… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.2.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.2.zi… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.patch.g… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.patch.z… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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Faulty CI builds for MediaWiki repositories
by Antoine Musso 09 Nov '21

09 Nov '21

Hello, One of the CI Jenkins jobs running for MediaWiki repositories had a faulty npm cache being restored. That caused some dependencies to not be properly installed and lead to a faulty build. The issue apparently started yesterday Nov 8th around 17:30 UTC and should be now resolved as of 8:30 UTC after I have deleted the faulty cache. The affected job is quibble-vendor-mysql-php72-selenium-docker which runs the Selenium browser test. If a change made to an extension or skin fails mysteriously, please try rechecking the CI change by commenting `recheck` on the change or using: recheck due to npm cache corruption - T295341 It has hit us a few times in the recent time: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294426 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293937 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295341 I have filed a generic task to further investigate the issue: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295351 -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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[Train] 1.38.0-wmf.7 status update (trapped at all wikis)
by Dan Duvall 06 Nov '21

06 Nov '21

Hi all, The 1.38.0-wmf.7 train is currently deployed to all wikis albeit in a regressive state due to UBN T295187.[1][2] From the UBN summary: "Since yesterday, multiple users have reported that Chinese conversion no longer functions in ToC on Chinese Wikipedia." A rollback to 1.38.0-wmf.6 was performed, initially to group1 before rolling back from all wikis, before a further report that the parser cache had already been polluted in a backwards incompatible way causing the TOC to completely disappear from many wikis. All wikis were again rolled forward to 1.38.0-wmf.7 to avoid the broader of the two regressions.[2] The train is not blocked, but cannot be safely rolled back either to fix UBN T295187.[2] Some fine folks are already helping to resolve this issue before the weekend, but any further assistance is appreciated as always. To keep up with the most current status please watch the train blocker task in Phabricator.[1] -- - 💕🚂🌈 - Your loving train conductor. [1] https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295187

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Production Excellence #37: October 2021
by Krinkle 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents There were 4 documented incidents last month. This is currently on average, compared to the past five years (per Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). 2021-10-08 network provider <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-10-08_netwo…>; Impact: For upto an hour, some regions experienced a partial connectivity outage. This primarily affected the US East Coast for 13 minutes, and Russia for 1 hour. It was caused by a routing problem with one among several network providers. 2021-10-22 eqiad networking <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-10-22_eqiad…>; Impact: For 40 minutes clients that are normally geographically routed to Eqiad experienced connection or timeout errors. We lost about 7K req/s during this time. After initial recovery, Eqiad was ready and repooled in 10 minutes. 2021-10-25 s3 db replica <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-10-25_s3_db…>; Impact: For 30min MediaWiki backends were slower than usual. For 12 hours, many wiki replicas were stale for Wikimedia Cloud Services such as Toolforge. 2021-10-29 graphite <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-10-29_graph…>; Impact: During a server upgrade, historical data was lost for a subset of Graphite metrics. Some were recovered via the redundant server, but others were lost as the redundant was also upgraded since then and lost some in a similar fashion. 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. Read about past incidents at Incident status <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_status> on Wikitech. Trends **Norwegian blue** 🐦 *298 bugs were up on the board. We solved 20 of those over the past thirty days.* *How many might now be left unexplored? We also added new bugs to our database.* *Half those bugs are pining for their fjord. The other 23 carry on, with their dossiers.* *All in all, 301 bugs up on the board.* In October, 49 new tasks <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/3A8rqYpefUFF/#R> were reported as production errors. Of these, we resolved 26, and 23 remain unresolved and carry forward to the next month. Previously, the production error workboard held an accumulated total of 298 still-open error reports. We resolved 20 of those. Together with the 23 new errors carried over from October, this brings us to 301 unresolved errors on the board. Figure 1: Unresolved error reports by month. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/260/production_excellence…> For the month-over-month numbers, refer to the spreadsheet data <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTrUCAI10hIroYDU-i5_8s7pony…>. Outstanding errors Take a look at the workboard and look for tasks that could use your help: View Workboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/> Issues carried over from recent months: Apr 2021: 9 of 42 issues left. May 2021: 16 of 54 issues left. Jun 2021: 9 of 26 issues left. Jul 2021: 12 of 31 issues left. Aug 2021: 12 of 46 issues left. Sep 2021: 11 of 24 issues left. Oct 2021: 23 of 49 new issues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/3A8rqYpefUFF/#R> are carried forward. 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/260/

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MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.1 is ready for testing
by Sam Reed 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.1, the second 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 late 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 Changes since 1.37.0-rc.0: * (T294043) checkStorage: pass no parameters to WikiRevision::getContent(). * (T292763) Do not cache private wiki completion results. * (T293783) ApiQueryImageInfo: don't show empty comments as deleted. * (T294316) Revert "Mark ApiClientLogin/ApiLogin as requiring write mode". * (T294796) JobQueueRedis: Replace deprecated zSize with zCard. * Remove duplicate settings from DefaultSettings. * (T278037) NoLocalSettings: Pass an EmptyBagOStuff to TemplateParser. 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.1.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.1.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.1.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.1.zip Patch to previous version (1.37.0-rc.0): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.1.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.1.patch.z… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.1.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.1.zi… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.1.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.1.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.1.patch.g… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.1.patch.z… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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