Wikitech-l December 2021

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Nomination for Zabe to have +2 in mediawiki/
by Kunal Mehta 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hi, I've nominated Zabe for +2 rights in all mediawiki/* repositories: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296165>. -- Legoktm

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Cloud VPS users, please claim your projects (and, introducing Komla)
by Andrew Bogott 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hello cloud-vps users! It's time for our annual cleanup of unused projects and resources. Our new developer advocate Komla Sapaty will be guiding this process; please respond promptly to his emails and do your best to make him feel welcome! Every year or so the Cloud Services team tries to identify and clean up unused projects and VMs. We do this via an opt-in process: anyone can mark a project as 'in use,' and that project will be preserved for another year. I've created a wiki page that lists all existing projects, here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2021_Purge If you are a VPS user, please visit that page and mark any projects that you use as {{Used}}. Note that it's not necessary for you to be a project admin to mark something -- if you know that you're currently using a resource and want to keep using it, go ahead and mark it accordingly. If you /are/ a project admin, please take a moment to mark which VMs are or aren't used in your projects. When February arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming resources from unused projects. If you think you use a VPS project but aren't sure which, I encourage you to poke around on https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ to see what looks familiar. Worst case, just email cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org with a description of your use case and we'll sort it out there. Exclusive toolforge users are free to ignore this email and future related things. Thank you! -Andrew and the WMCS team

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Contributing to Wikimedia Foundation (Where Can I find the projects?)
by Sai Teja Anantha 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hey, I am Sai Teja Anantha, an Undergraduate student from IIT Kharagpur. I am a newbie to open source contributions, and I am looking forward to contributing to the Wikimedia foundation Organization. I am looking for projects in this Organization. Where can I find the projects currently that are active in this Organization, please let me know. Thanks in Advance

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Apply for or raise awareness about the Wikimedia Research Fund
by Leila Zia 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

[Apologies for cross-posting] Hi all, We're excited to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Research Fund [1] with the goal of diversifying the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and supporting the Wikimedia Movement in deeper understanding of the projects, decision making, and building new technologies. The reason we're reaching out to you, as the developer community, is that we believe one of the ways research can be impactful is through its use in tools/code and as developers, you have knowledge of what research can support you in your work. (Examples, OCR for specific languages, better NLP models in your local language, other ML models for specific tasks that you want your tools to offer, and more.) The deadline to apply is January 3, 2022. We intend to give funds of value USD 2k-50k. More info at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech… . Big thanks to Emily Lescak for all her behind-the-scenes work to make the launch of the Research Fund possible, and to the Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation for giving us the opportunity and the funds. If you have questions, please reach out to us at research_fund(a)wikimedia.org, meta [2], here, or in one of our upcoming office hours [3]! :) Best, the Research Fund committee chairs Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Start [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech…

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Train is cancelled this week
by Tyler Cipriani 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hi all! I know this is a past-due notice considering it's Wednesday. But I'm cancelling the train for this week. We are distracted by some internal changes, and I don't feel that we have the capacity to devote attention to these internal changes and do the train as well. Sorry all :( Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Small breaking change to WikiPage
by Thomas Chin 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hello, There is currently a patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/732429/> in the works that will introduce a slight breaking change to WikiPage. It removes three public functions that weren't intended to be public to begin with: WikiPage::insertNullProtectionRevision, ::protectDescription, and ::protectDescriptionLog. The only known external usage of these methods have a patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/734727> up, but please be on the lookout if any of your code happens to use them. Cheers, -- *Thomas Chin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TChin_(WMF)>* (he/him) Software Engineer - Platform Engineering Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Gsoc 2022 contribution
by Siddhi Bhanushali 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hello , Siddhi Bhanushali here. I am a third year computer engineering student. I have participated in 5+ open source programs and gave a quality contribution. Some of the Open source events are Hacktoberfest 2021, Girlscript winter of contributing , lgmsoc etc. I know html,css,js,Bootstrap,python, ejs node,express,sql,mongodb. Please guide me how to start my contribution for gsoc 2022 and also I need guidance for proposal writing.

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How to get started with contribution
by Shreyaans Jain 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hey, I am Shreyaans Jain 2nd year student at IIT Kanpur and looking for some projects to contribute to GSOC 2022 . I am a open source enthusiasts and have taken part in may open source program like Hactoberfest 2021 ( recently completed) , SWOC2021. I like open source because its for everyone , Anyone can learn here and contribute and the same your organization does by providing free education. Kindly help me to get started. Hope to hear from you soon. I will be very thankful to you.

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2021-11
by aklapper＠wikimedia.org 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2021-11): 259 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2021-11): 974 Task authors in (2021-11): 509 Users who have closed tasks in (2021-11): 291 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2021-11): 277 Tasks created in (2021-11): 2083 Tasks closed in (2021-11): 1954 Open and stalled tasks in total: 48806 * Only open tasks in total: 47909 * Only stalled tasks in total: 897 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 32 Needs Triage: 722 High: 1000 Normal: 1573 Low: 2185 Lowest: 2258 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2021-11): 3 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 Wed 01 Dec 2021 12:01:10 AM UTC)

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