Wikitech-l May 2021

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MediaWiki 1.36 Release Bugfix Bugging
by Tyler Cipriani 10 May '21

10 May '21

👋 This is a quick plea to add bugfixes that should go out with the MediaWiki 1.36 release to the Phabricator board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4555/> so that we can get them backported and tested. Important links: - Currently reported bugs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4555/> - Report a new bug form <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.36-…> - Preliminary Release notes <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_36/RELEASE-NOTES-1.36> 🙏 Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Call for Election Volunteers - WMF Board of Trustees
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 08 May '21

08 May '21

Hi all, Would you like to get more people taking part in the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees election? The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced the plan for the 2021 Board elections <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/2021…>. That plan includes outreach and communication support for the Board elections. The Board election facilitators will: - Inform communities of the trustee selection process - Invite communities to engage in voting - Encourage people representing emerging Wikimedia communities to run as candidates Voter turnout in prior elections was about 10% globally. It was better in communities with volunteer election support. Some of those communities reached over 20% voter turnout. We know we can get more voters to help assess and promote the best candidates, but to do that, we need your help. We are looking for volunteers to serve as Election Volunteers. Election Volunteers should have a good understanding of their communities. The facilitation team sees Election Volunteers as doing the following: - Promote the election in their communities’ channels - Organize discussions about the election in their communities - Translate messages for their communities *Who are the Election Volunteers to connect your community with this movement effort? Is it you? Or someone you know?* *Check out more details about Election Volunteers* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Electio…> and add your name next to the community you will support in this table <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Electio…> or get in contact with a facilitator <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021#Team>. We aim to have at least one Election Volunteer for Wiki-projects in the top 30 for eligible voters. Even better if there are two or more sharing the work. Best, Krishna Chaitanya Communications Facilitator, Board Governance

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Thank you Xqt
by Kunal Mehta 08 May '21

08 May '21

I was looking at Pywikibot's commit stats for something and noticed that as of earlier today, `git shortlog -s` reports that Xqt hit 4,000 commits in the pywikibot/core repository! For comparison, the next human is at 822 commits. In total the repository has a little over 9,800 commits, of which ~40% are from Xqt. Thank you Xqt for all your work maintaining Pywikibot for so many years and for helping power so many bots across Wikimedia. -- Legoktm

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[Train] 1.37.0-wmf.4 status update (blocked at group0 again)
by Brennen Bearnes 06 May '21

06 May '21

Hi all, The 1.37.0-wmf.4[0] train is currently blocked at group0 by the following issue: * Query time out in ApiQueryLogEvents query - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282193 As ever, you can follow train progress on Freenode's #wikimedia-operations as well as on the blocker task[0]. Regards, -- Your bedraggled train crew [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281145> [1]. <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Holding_the_train#Issues_th…>

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2021-05-05 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 05 May '21

05 May '21

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-05-05 = 2021-05-05 = == Callouts == * From SRE Service Operations: ** DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch ** Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have questions/problems. * 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/ == Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback == * === No updates === CommTech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, iOS, Android, ProdInfra, Parsing, Language, Library, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: == Product == === Growth === * Blocked by: ** Editing on code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/682014 * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link *** now running in dark mode on arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, viwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278710 ** Continuing work on on-wiki configuration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_configuration ** Deploying Growth features to elwiki === Web === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Began the rollout of the new language switcher treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280526 === Structured Data === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Testing the image recommendations API—if you're bored and want to help us out, please consider reviewing some images (we especially need help in English and Cebuano) *** https://image-recommendation-test.toolforge.org/?uselang=en ** Starting process to deploy the new standalone MediaSearch extension === Abstract Wikipedia === * Blocked by: ** None. * Blocking: ** None known. * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Nothing exciting this week. ** Working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases – getting close! === Inuka === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383 ** Trending articles engagement issue in KaiOS app https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280830 === Vue.js === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Build step technical decision making process is moving along; awaiting feedback from the forum and developing proofs of concept *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108 *** https://github.com/egardner/mediawiki-extensions-BuildSandbox/pull/2 ** Continuing work on the UI components design inventory *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047 ** WVUI: building components and experimenting with the Composition API plugin == Technology == === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Deploying new email preferences center ** starting work to integrate with new API of backup card processor ** Moving more CiviCRM custom code out of drupal 7 modules === Engineering Productivity === ==== Quality and Test Engineering ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Blog post by Elena Tonkovidova - Breakpoint at BrowserStack conferences (2020-2021) - reflections and thoughts (Part 2 Focus on Exploratory testing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/237 ** Blog post by Željko Filipin - Debug Selenium Tests: logLevel (Part 1) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/238 ==== Release Engineering ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 ** Train Health *** Last week: 1.37.0-wmf.3 [[phab:T278347]]  *** This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4 [[phab:T281145]]  *** Next week: 1.37.0-wmf.5 [[phab:T281146]]  === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** wikidata-query-rdf-maven-release-docker builds fail due to hitting 30min timeout - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280863 ** Reload ORES data into weighted_tags - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274583 ** MediaSearch results not updated 12 hours after overwriting image - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204 ** Deploy new version of Extra Plugin (with Khmer filter) to Elasticsearch cluster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204 ** Clean up failed reindexing indexes - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279607 ** WDQS data-transfer cookbook needs to wait for updater to catchup on lag - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280108 === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch ** Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have questions/problems. === WMDE Technical Wishes === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: ** mforns and the Analytics team carried us across the finish line, making a suite of new metrics available. ** Urbanecm for accompanying and performing several backports and config changes over the past weeks ( even more to come 😬 ) * Updates: ** Reference Previews deployment was reverted today, we'll try again tomorrow. (T271206) == Cross-cutting == * Blocked by: ** [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142 (or at least 6.7). * Blocking: ** None known. * Thank yous: * Updates: ** REL1_36 release process: *** 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/ ** CI tools: *** New release of mediawiki-codesniffer (v36) came out last week; 58% of repos updated so far. *** CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master ** PHP 8.0: *** No change this week. *** Our target is REL1_35 (and thus also REL1_36), as well as master. *** Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one. *** Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; thank you to everyone working on fixing them. [[Category:Scrum of scrums{{#translation:}}|*]]

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Quibble 0.0.47 released
by Antoine Musso 05 May '21

05 May '21

Hello, I have released Quibble 0.0.47 a minute ago: * Fixes installation under Python 3.5 * Inject MediaWiki related environment variables when running a user script * Run "composer test-some" for mediawiki/core (which will let us make "composer test" to run against all files as it is done on all other repositories). * Test Parsoid as if it were an extension And that is about it. The complete changelog is at: https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html The CI jobs will eventually be updated to it over the next hours / days. cheers, -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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[Train] 1.37.0-wmf.4 status update (blocked at group0)
by Brennen Bearnes 05 May '21

05 May '21

Hi all, The 1.37.0-wmf.4[0] train is currently blocked at group0 by the following issue: * Special:RecentChanges with userExpLevel=newcomer causes Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError": Unknown column 'actor_user' - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281981 If this issue is resolved before the 19:00 UTC train deployment window, the train will proceed as normal to group1. As ever, you can follow train progress on Freenode's #wikimedia-operations as well as on the blocker task[0]. Regards, -- Your bedraggled train crew [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281145> [1]. <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Holding_the_train#Issues_th…>

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Resolution about the upcoming Board elections
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 05 May '21

05 May '21

Dear Wikimedians, The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met last week to decide on a plan for the 2021 Board elections. The Board Governance Committee created a proposal based on the report of Call for Feedback about Community Board Seats <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…> [1]. The full proposal <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/83/BGC_Community_Truste…>[2] is available on Foundation Wiki. The Board wants to thank the more than 800 volunteers that participated in the Call for Feedback in one way or another. It has been very difficult to decide on every open question considering the quantity and diversity of opinions received. We hope this resolution feels sensible to everybody. The summary of the proposal is as follows: 1. The Board drafts a call for candidates that includes details about the skills and experience that are currently represented on the Board (excluding trustees whose terms are expiring) and that the Board would like the selected trustees to have. 2. The Foundation devotes resources to informing communities of the trustee selection process and encouraging people from emerging and underrepresented communities to run as candidates. 3. As part of their self-nomination process, candidates fill out the trustee evaluation form. 4. The Foundation continues to devote resources to invite communities to participate in the selection process by engaging candidates during the campaign period and by voting. 5. Community members vote and their votes are counted using a *proportional voting system* chosen by the Elections Committee. 6. The Foundation conducts the usual vetting of the selected candidates (background check and communications review). 7. The Board appoints the selected candidates for whom the vetting process did not reveal any significant issues. This proposal does not suggest implementing quotas or hard requirements for candidate skills or experience for the 2021 round of community trustee selection. Instead, it relies on the more detailed information from the Board in the call for feedback, the community outreach efforts, and the proportional voting system to meet the Board’s needs in terms of skills and diversity. However, it also contemplates potentially adding or changing elements to the process for future rounds of trustee selection, based on an assessment of the effectiveness this first time. The draft timeline is as follows: 1. April 15: Board meets to consider and approve this proposal 2. April - May: Elections Committee and staff plan the details of the selection process 3. June 1-2: Board meets and approves the call for candidates 4. June 8 - 29: Call for candidates; candidate outreach 5. June 29 - July 20: Candidates campaign and answer questions; community outreach 6. July 20 - August 3: Voting; community outreach 7. August 3 - 10: Vote counting and processing 8. August 10 - 24: Foundation vetting of selected candidates 9. August / September: Board appoints selected candidates *(tentative only, subject to change)* Please go through the full proposal[2] for further details, and let me know if you have any questions. In the upcoming days, the Board elections facilitation team will share their ideas to support candidates and voters. Best, Krishna Chaitanya, Communications Facilitator, Board Governance [1] Call for Feedback report: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa… [2] Full proposal: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/83/BGC_Community_Truste…

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Breaking changes without deprecation to MediaWiki File class
by Petr Pchelko 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hello all, The following breaking changes will be made without deprecation in MediaWiki 1.37 release [1]: - File::deleteFile - will accept UserIdentity instead of User - File::getDescription - will accept Authority instead of User - File::userCan - will accept Authority instead of User - LocalFile::deleteOldFile - will accept UserIdentity instead of User The parameter types in method signatures have been widened, so callers of these methods will not be affected. However, these methods are marked as “@stable to override” per Stable Interface Policy [1] and widening the parameter type hints will break classes overriding the aforementioned methods. However, according to codesearch [2] none of these methods are overridden by anything in MediaWiki ecosystem. Please reach out on Gerrit or on this mailing list if you have concerns about the proposed change. Best regards, Petr Pchelko [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/677014 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/677014> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy>[3] https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/ <https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/>

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2021-04
by aklapper＠wikimedia.org 01 May '21

01 May '21

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2021-04): 366 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2021-04): 1152 Task authors in (2021-04): 603 Users who have closed tasks in (2021-04): 295 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2021-04): 303 Tasks created in (2021-04): 2594 Tasks closed in (2021-04): 2266 Open and stalled tasks in total: 47761 * Only open tasks in total: 46879 * Only stalled tasks in total: 882 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 2 Needs Triage: 635 High: 952 Normal: 1393 Low: 2009 Lowest: 2067 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2021-04): 8 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 Sat 01 May 2021 12:00:21 AM UTC)

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