Wikitech-l April 2021

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

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List related to repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer
by Zoran Dori 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Hello, can someone to update list https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10500 which contains repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer. I found in list that much repositories are empty, and repositories which aren't available on Gerrit. So, can someone please update this list of repositories (in mediawiki/extensions) which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer, but at least, contains one PHP file. or to provide me command with which I can update list when I want, so I don't need to request it every time. Best regards, Zoran. P. S.: Happy weekend! :)

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Line numbering coming soon for syntax highlighting
by Johanna Strodt 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

// sorry for cross-posting Hello everyone, Here is another change from WMDE’s Technical Wishes team concerning syntax highlighting: Soon, line numbers will be shown in wikitext editors when you have the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror> extension) enabled.[1] The change will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. More information can be found on this project page. [2] We plan to deploy this with this week’s Mediawiki train, so it should be on wikis from April 13-15. As a first step, it will be available on the template namespace only. Deployment on other namespaces is planned for the near future. If you have any feedback, please let us know on the project’s talk page. [3] We hope line numbering will be useful to you! Johanna for the Technical Wishes team [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Talk_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering -- Johanna Strodt Projektmanagerin Kommunikation Communitys Technische Wunschliste Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens 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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New Code of Conduct committee candidates
by Amir Sarabadani 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hello, The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee candidates are (In alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Kunal Mehta - Martin Urbanec - MusikAnimal - Tony Thomas And auxiliary members will be (Also in alphabetical order): - Ariel Glenn - Effie Mouzeli - Huji - Jayprakash12345 - Nuria Ruiz You can read more about the members in the mediawiki.org page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates> . The changes compared to last term are: - Kunal Mehta is joining the main CoC committee - Ariel Glenn is coming back to auxiliary committee - Effie Mouzeli is joining auxiliary committee for the first time - Tonina Zhelyazkova is leaving the committee - Matanya and Tpt are leaving the auxiliary committee - I won't run for the chair this year. This is not the final structure. According to the CoC <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_m…>, the current committee publishes the new members and calls for public feedback for *six weeks* and after that, the current committee might apply changes to the structure based on public feedback. Please let the committee know if you have any concern regarding the members and its structure until *26 May 2021* and after that, the new committee will be in effect and will serve for a year. Amir, On behalf of the Code of Conduct committee Best

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Wikimedia Enterprise Office Hours
by Liam Wyatt 20 May '21

20 May '21

On Friday 16th @1500 UTC - exactly one week from the time that this email was sent - the *Wikimedia Enterprise *team will be hosting the April edition of our monthly 'Office Hours'. You are most welcome to join us. Details for how to join are available at our documentation homepages [[Wikimedia Enterprise]] on MediaWiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise>, and on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise>. Equally on Meta are instructions for requesting a separate call for your community group (at a time and technical platform of your choosing); and the videos of the recordings of the two office-hours meetings from March. Relatedly, the team will be presenting at the forthcoming EMWCon Spring 2021 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2021> conference <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2021> later in April. Details: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise Sincerely, *Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]* WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> Program Manager & Wikimedia Enterprise <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Okapi> Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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Hackathon program: call for proposals open until May 9th
by Léa Lacroix 11 May '21

11 May '21

Hello all, The Wikimedia hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021> is coming up in a few weeks, on May 22-23! We’re very excited to gather online with you all and hack together. On top of the informal hacking, we would like to build a light, community powered program, with sessions and discussions about the technical environment in the Wikimedia movement. We will have two different “tracks”, each of them having its own setup: 1. The main track, a livestream of sessions that will be recorded and available for replay, hopefully using a fully open source set up. This will be great for presentations, talks and demos. 2. The open rooms: two Jitsi rooms will be available to schedule your sessions. This is perfect for informal discussions, Q&As and workshops. If you’re interested in running a session in the hackathon’s program, it’s easy: please create a task on the Phabricator board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5303/>, using this template <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?title=[Sessio…>, that will give you all the required information. The coordination team will come back to you to help you prepare and schedule your session. You will also find the different formats that we are offering: presentation, discussion, workshop or lightning talk. All topics are welcome, as long as they are connected to the technical environment of the Wikimedia projects. We are particularly interested in sessions that are useful for newcomers, and connected to the main topics of this year’s hackathon: open source tools for events, documentation and finding co-maintainers. Because we will need some time to schedule the proposed sessions and to make technical tests with the speakers, please note that the deadline to submit a session for the main track is May 9th. For the open rooms, you will have a bit more time, until May 19th. You will find more information and details about the call for proposals on the how-to page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021/How_to>. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the discussion page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021>. If you want to brainstorm ideas or find a co-speaker for your session, feel free to ask the crowd on the hackathon social channels <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021/Discussions>. Feel free to share the word anywhere you find it useful, and talk about it with your contacts! Thanks in advance, For the coordination team, -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement Coordinator Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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The deployment of 1.37.0-wmf.3: rocky, but good now
by Lars Wirzenius 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

This is a summary of this week's deployment of the 1.37.0-wmf.3 branch of MediaWiki and its extensions (also known as "the train"). The primary person in charge this week was me, Lars Wirzenius, with Jeena Huneidi as backup, both from the Release Engineering team. The summary task for this week is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278347 This week was a little more rocky than usual. I achieved three personal records: largest number of rollbacks in a week (two), largest number of errors in logstash after a deployment (63367), and largest number of deer seen from my window while conducting the train (eight, in pairs on three different days). The new version is running all sites. There were a total of six blockers reported and resolved: - T281180 - DiscussionTools: Precondition failed: This Title instance does not represent a proper page, but merely a link target https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281180 - T281184 - PHP Fatal Error: Access level to CentralAuthPrimaryAuthenticationProvider::$userNameUtils must be protected (as in class MediaWiki\Auth\AbstractPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProvider) or weaker https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281184 - T281226 - PHP Notice: Only variables should be assigned by reference https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281226 - T281361 - TypeError: Argument 2 passed to Wikibase\Client\DataAccess\Scribunto\WikibaseLanguageIndependentLuaBindings::trackUsageForSitelink() must be an instance of Wikibase\DataModel\Entity\ItemId, instance of Wikibase\MediaInfo\DataMo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281361 - T281405 - Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1054: Unknown column 'img_actor' https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281405 - T281480 - SqlBlobStore no longer caching blobs (DBConnectionError Too many connections) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281480 The last task is still open, as it was worked around quickly, on Thursday, to avoid a service outage (read: taking down all sites), but is waiting for a proper fix later. As usual, a whole bunch of people helped to find, triage, analyze, fix, or work around problems this. Release Engineering thanks everyone, without help we wouldn't be able to deploy MediaWiki. - Aaron Schulz - Addshore - Bartosz Dziewoński - Daimona - DannyS712 - Gergő Tisza - Giuseppe Lavagetto - Jaime Crespo - Jakob Warkotsch - James D. Forrester - Kosta Harlan - Lucas Werkmeister - Martin Urbanec - Pchelolo - Taavi Väänänen - Timo Tijhof - Tim Starling There may have been other people, and if so, I apologize for not including them on the list above. Have a good weekend. Be well. Be safe. For more information, please see: - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278347 - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys - https://versions.toolforge.org/ -- WMF release engineering team | he/him or they/them "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge."

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