Wikitech-l August 2021

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Re: Contributions to Infra
by Soham Parekh 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

Hey folks, My name is Soham Parekh. I've been working with the foundation both in the capacities of a volunteer as well as a mentor for Outreachy and Google Summer of Code since past year and absolutely love being here. I've recently been exploring a bit of Devops and infrastructure primarily learning about monitoring, provisioning, Docker and the likes and wanted to contribute on projects along these lines. I think this would be an amazing learning experience for me given Wikipedia is capable of handling such huge chunks of traffic and maintain across all the projects. I wanted some guidance on which team/group is ideal to reach out to for projects of this kind? Any help will be awesome! Regards, Soham Parekh

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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021
by Trey Jones 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927 *NOTE: We have a new Google Meet link as of August 2021, which offers international calling options.* Hope to talk to you in a week! —Trey Trey Jones Sr. Computational Linguist, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC–4 / EDT

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🚂🌈 Summary of the 1.37.0-wmf.20 train deplotyment
by Mukunda Modell 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of 1.37.0-wmf.20 - Train Conductors: dancy, brennen - Phabricator Task: T281161 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/['task']> - Deployment Status: Live on all wikis <https://versions.toolforge.org/> Stats - 248 patches - 0 rollbacks - 1 day of delays (Group 1 delayed until Thursday) - 8 blockers (0 remain open) - 18 tasks mentioned 🚂🌈 Thanks to everyone¹ who helped out with this train. Here are some names chosen at random: - Stashbot - Urbanecm - BPirkle - dancy - Jdlrobson - brennen - Zabe - matmarex ------------------------------ *¹ yes, even the bots* - Be sure to tune in next time for another exciting trainwreck.

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Gsoc 2022 contribution help
by jinana boy 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

Hi everyone, Myself sourav I am beginner at open source also I want to know your active project idea list in order to make changes / add more feature into it but unable to find from where to start , so if you can guide me how to start contribute in your project it will be helpfull for me

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WVUI v0.3.0 released – last minor version incl. new components
by Volker E. 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hi all, We've released version 0.3.0 of WVUI earlier today. One of the agreements from Vue.js developer summit [0] organized by the Design System team has been to start a new library and repository next with all other technical decisions made, a.o. being based on Vue 3 or no JavaScript only support to IE 11. With this email we want to clarify upfront why we've merged two more component additions (progress-bar and toggle-button) succeeding the summit. Reasons was mainly to finalize the already in-flight work by volunteer DannyS712. Additionally to this, all other components merged since v0.2.0 and before the summit – checkbox, dropdown and options-menu – are part of this release. Same goes for further improvements for the most important in-production use case, Desktop Improvements project's Typeahead Search feature [1]. We'll discontinue major additions to WVUI from this release on besides bug fixes and will focus our work on the coming library. Thanks to volunteer DannyS712 for all contributions! And to Nikki Nikkhoui for the continued build step support and James Forrester to get release out of the door during after hours. Find interactive demos hosted on doc.wikimedia.org [2] and the additional improvements since v0.2.0 in the full changelog [3]. If you have any further questions please reach out to design-systems-team-external(a)wikimedia.org. Best, Volker [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_Systems_Team/Vue.js_Developer_Summit_… [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Vue.js_case… [2] https://doc.wikimedia.org/wvui/master/ui/ [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/wvui/+/refs/tags/v0.3.0/CHAN…

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Nomination for Majavah to get +2 rights in mediawiki/
by Kunal Mehta 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

Hi everyone, I have filed <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289329> to nominate Majavah for +2 rights in all mediawiki/* Gerrit repositories. Thanks, -- Legoktm

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Action API: Removal of deprecated CSRF token parameters
by Petr Pchelko 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

TLDR: We will soon remove some parameters that were used to obtain CSRF tokens in the MediaWiki API. This will break bots, gadgets and user scripts that are still using these parameters. A significant and long delayed change to Action API is coming. API clients (user scripts, tools, etc) need to obtain a token before making write requests to MediaWiki over Action API. Up to MediaWiki 1.24 the action=tokens[1] and ‘token’ parameter in the following API endpoints were used to obtain a token: ‘rctoken’ in action=query&list=recentchanges [2] ‘rvtoken’ in action=query&prop=revisions [3] ‘intoken’ in action=query&prop=info [4] ‘ustoken’ in action=query&list=users[5] Since MediaWiki 1.24 these module and parameters were deprecated and were emitting deprecation warnings to API clients. These parameters and endpoint will now be removed from MediaWiki 1.37 and from Wikimedia installation. To obtain CSRF tokens clients now need to use a consolidated ‘action=query&meta=tokens’ endpoint. [6] Please respond to this email if you have any concerns or questions about this change. Petr Pchelko Staff Software Engineer Platform Engineering Team at WMF [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=tokens <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=tokens> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brecentchanges <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brecentchanges> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brevisions <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brevisions> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Binfo <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Binfo> [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Busers <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Busers> [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btokens <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btokens>

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No train the week of 2021-09-06
by Tyler Cipriani 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Hi All There will be no deployment train the week of 2021-09-06 (Mon, 06 Sep – Fri, 10 Sep). Release Engineering will be having a team focused work week. Backport and config deployments should continue as planned. There is a long-term calendar of upcoming known deployment disruptions available on Wikitech: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar Thank you! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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🚂🌈 Summary of 1.37.0-wmf.19 train deployment 🌈🚂
by Jeena Huneidi 21 Aug '21

21 Aug '21

This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of 1.37 .0-wmf.19. - Conductor: Brennen Bearnes - Backup: Jeena Huneidi - Blocker task: T281160 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281160> - Status: Live on all wikis <https://versions.toolforge.org/> *📊Stats* - 400 patches - 0 rollbacks - 0 delays - 1 blocker 🚂🌈 Thanks to everyone who helped our train chug forwards: - Zabe - Majavah - DannyS712 - James D. Forrester Happy weekend, -- Jeena Huneidi Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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OOUI v0.42.0 released – less render-blocking code via updated browser support, upgrade to jQuery 3.6.0 & OOjs 6.0.0
by Volker E. 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Hi everybody, We've released version 0.42.0 of the OOUI library* yesterday. It's going to rollout with normal train next Tuesday, 24 August 2021. Highlights in this release: - Removal of code fragments for browsers, that were taken out of basic support, most of those affected released before 2013! [0]. Removal will directly results in a small performance gain for all other users. This is nominally a breaking change. If you need to continue to support those browsers in your environment, please stick with an earlier version. - Upgraded underlying libraries to jQuery v3.6.0, up from v3.5.1 and OOjs to v6.0.0, up from v5.0.0. This goes hand-in-hand with similar upgrade in MediaWiki core. Both updates above are considered breaking changes. Please carefully test if they affect your code. - Two new icons, 'share' and 'ocr' have become part of the library and the WikimediaUI design system. - Addition of RequiredElement mixin, already added in v0.41.1 Thanks especially to Thiemo Kreuz and volunteer DannyS712 on improving the documentation and Umherirrender for continuous code improvement patches. You can find details on additional new features, code-level, styling and interaction design amendments, and all improvements since v0.41.0 in the full changelog [1]. If you have any further queries or need help dealing with breaking changes, please reach out to me. As always, interactive demos [2] and library documentation is available on mediawiki.org [3], there is comprehensive generated code-level documentation and interactive demos and tutorials hosted on doc.wikimedia.org [4]. Best, Volker * Obligatory to say, no, this is not the answer to Everything. That will probably be v42 of the future Vue.js based user-interface components library [5]. --- OOUI version: 0.42.0 MediaWiki version: 1.37.0-wmf.20 Date of deployment to production: Regular train, starting Tuesday 24 August [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266866 [1] - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/oojs/ui/+/v0.42.0/History.md [2] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/#widgets-mediawiki-vector-ltr [3] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI [4] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/ [5] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288980

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