Wikitech-l November 2021

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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 22 Nov '21

22 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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How to get started with contribution
by Kajal Kumari 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

Respected sir/madam , I am Kajal Kumari, a computer science undergrad, I have just entered in my second year at Banasthali vidyapith. I am new to open source contributions but I am well aware of JAVA, HTML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT. I would love to contribute to your organization. Could you please tell me how to get started? Hoping to hear from you soon. Regards Kajal

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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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