The 1.37.0-wmf.3 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0].
The new version is deployed to {group(s){0,1,2}}[1], but can proceed no
further until these issues are resolved:
* 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>
Once these issues are resolved train can resume. If these issues are
resolved on a Friday the train will resume Monday.
Thank you for your help resolving these issues!
-- Your humble train toiler
[0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278347>
[1]. <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."
// apologies for cross-posting
Hello!
A new type of preview will soon be part of the MediaWiki software:
Reference Previews.[1] This feature shows you a reference in a small pop-up
when you hover over the reference number in square brackets. This way, you
can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.
What’s more is that Reference Previews can offer a quicker way to evaluate
the trustworthiness of the cited source by displaying the reference type
(book, web, news, journal, note) in the pop-up’s header. Thus, they can
help increase trust in the article itself. These types can be applied by
using citation templates, or by manually entering a class into the ref tag.
Reference Previews will be combined with Page Previews[2], a feature
showing previews for linked articles. Both perform essentially the same
function: previewing content before deciding to dig deeper, and easily
providing more information while reading. Because of their similarities in
design and behavior, both Page Previews and Reference Previews will be
controlled by a single user setting. This means, all users who currently
have Page Previews activated, will also get Reference Previews. Also, all
readers, anonymous contributors and new users will see Reference Previews
per default if they haven’t disabled Page Previews.
On several wikis, the Navigation-Popups gadget and the Reference Tooltips
gadget already offer previews for references. If you want to use them
instead, you can: If you have one of these gadgets enabled, you’ll see them
instead of Reference Previews. Although these gadgets exist, this feature
was built into a MediaWiki extension in order to make it available for all
Wikipedias, just as Page Previews is.
The original request for this came from the Technical Wishes survey on
German Wikipedia in 2017, where it was the number 1 wish. The Technical
Wishes team from Wikimedia Germany has been working on it in cooperation
with the WMF’s Reading Web team. Reference Previews have been a beta
feature for several months on all Wikipedias and some other wikis, with
more than 830,000 beta testers. During the beta phase, lots of feedback was
collected, and several changes were made as a result.[3] Now, we plan to
deploy it to a first group of wikis as a default feature on March 17. We’re
still looking for wikis who want to have the default feature early, so if
you’re interested, please let us know! [4] [5]
More information about this feature, including frequently asked questions,
can be found on its project page on Meta. [1] A big thanks to everyone who
contributed to this development, by voting, testing, giving feedback or
else. Comments and questions are welcome on this talk page. [4]
Best,
Johanna
[1] Reference Previews:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
[2] Page Previews: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
[3] Changes during the beta phase:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Bet…
[4] talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
[5] Phab: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206
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Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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Hello,
TLDR: Mailman3 is now available for general use, all mailing lists will be
migrated in the next couple of weeks, providing everyone with a much better
mailing list experience. You will notice some changes, let us know if you
run into issues.
Long version:
We're happy to announce that Mailman3 is available for general use and some
have already been migrated. You can find the current mailing lists that
have been migrated at [1] and their archives in "hyperkitty"[2].
Mailman3 is a full rewrite of our previous mailing list software
(Mailman2), and the migration is long overdue. Some key new features that
we want to highlight:
* One user account (no more monthly password reminder emails or list
passwords)
* Ability to search through archives
* Posting through a web interface
* A web interface that doesn't look like its from the early 2000s
* Better security of accounts and messages
The first mailing list migrated was LGBT@ and you can see its mailing list
page in [3]. We are going to slowly migrate the rest of mailing lists (all
+700 of them), you can track the work in [4]. All new mailing lists from
now on will be only on Mailman3.
This means:
* We will send an email to admins of any mailing list right before
starting the upgrade process, and once it's finished.
* The link to subscribe to lists will change, please update your wiki
pages, documentation, etc. We will provide redirects though.
* Links to old archives for public mailing lists won't break. It will
stay at it is now and will become redirects shortly. But URLs of archived
emails of private mailing lists will break. This is necessary for improving
security of mailing lists. Keep it in mind that in the new system you can
easily search in the archives.
Given that in Mailman3, you can simply have one central account for all of
your mailing lists. We highly encourage you to make one [1], that way, you
can easily control what mailing lists you are subscribed to, easily join
new mailing lists and much more. This also makes administrating and
moderating mailing lists much easier.
If you have any questions or you encounter any issues, let us know! You can
create a Phabricator ticket ("Wikimedia-Mailing-lists" project) or ping us
on IRC in #wikimedia-tech.
We hope that Mailman3 brings much needed love to our mailing lists without
breaking your workflows (like reading mails by piping telnet into less or
something like that).
The umbrella ticket for the work: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52864
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/
[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/
[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/lgbt.lists.wikimedia.org/
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280322
Best,
Kunal (Legoktm) and Amir (Ladsgroup)
Hello potential deployers!
We're starting backport deployment training for people interested in
learning how to deploy safely
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Framed_%22I_BROKE_WIKIPEDIA..._THEN…>
.
Training happens in the #wikimedia-operations IRC channel as well as in a
Google meet hangout every Thursday at both 11:00 and 23:00 UTC.
If you're interested in becoming a deployer and joining the hangout please
fill out our deployment training request form
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/96/> on
Phabricator to signup.
Attendance at multiple training sessions is welcome and encouraged—the goal
is for you to be comfortable doing deployments yourself.
Everyone interested in having their code run in Wikimedia's production
should learn how to deploy! Knowing how to deploy is important to unblock
yourself and to help others in the technical community. The training will
guide you step-by-step through queuing up patches, (in)validating on
MWDebug, rolling back, and pushing live.
For more information see the deployment training guide on Wikitech
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Training>.
💖
– Tyler
I saw a note about maintenance but I didn't think it was related to
toolforge - everything on toolforge.org seems to be down right now? When I
try to login I don't see any tools (become 'xxx' says "no such tool")
Arthur
Hello,
I'm once again asking you to vote on a logo. This time is the new Wikitech
logo since its original one was derived from the old MediaWiki logo that
has now changed. You can see this ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279087> for previous discussion and
proposals of the new wikitech logo.
This time, it's much simpler. Only one round (as they are just variants of
the same logo), For two weeks only and effective immediately afterwards.
You can vote in https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech_logo and
voting is open until 30 April 2021. You can only support up to two logos
(out of five proposed).I recommend reading the ticket before voting.
Thanks
--
Amir (he/him)
Hey all,
This is a quick note to highlight that the REL1_36 branch has now been
created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in
Wikimedia git[0]. This is the first step in the release process for
MediaWiki 1.36, which should be out in late May 2021, approximately nine
months after MediaWiki 1.35.
The branches reflect (or are at least very close to) the code as of the
last 'alpha' branch for the release, 1.36.0-wmf.38, which was deployed to
Wikimedia wikis last week for MediaWiki itself and those extensions and
skins available there.
>From now on patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki
and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the MediaWiki 1.37
release unless specifically backported[1].
If you are working on a critical bug fix that will affect the code in the
release, once the patch has been merged into the development branch, you
should propose it for backporting by cherry-picking to the REL1_36 branch.
If you are working on a new feature, that should now not be backported. If
you have an urgent case where the work should block release for everyone
else, please file a task against the `mw 1.36-release` project on
Phabricator.[2]
If you have tickets that are tagged for `mw-1.36-release`, please finish
them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few days.
We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.36.0-rc.0, in two weeks'
time, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.36.0 a few weeks after
that.
Thanks!
– Tyler
[0]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins>
[1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes>
[2]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/>
// sorry for cross-posting
Hi all,
another feature will soon make usage of templates easier:
Suggested values for parameters can be added to TemplateData and will be
shown as a drop-down list in VisualEditor. This allows VisualEditor users
to quickly select an appropriate value. Thus, it reduces potential errors
and the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be
possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones. More information
can be found on the help page [1] and on the project page. [2]
The WMDE Technical Wishes team plans to deploy this on all wikis on April
29. If you have any feedback, please let us know on the project’s talk
page. [3]
Timur
for the Technical Wishes team
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:TemplateData#suggestedvalues
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Suggested_values_for_…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Suggested_values…
--
Timur Vorkul
Technische Wünsche
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
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