Wikitech-l August 2021

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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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Outreachy Round 23–call for projects and mentors now open!
by Srishti Sethi 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

Hello everyone, Wikimedia is participating in the winter edition of this year's Outreachy < https://www.outreachy.org/> [1] (December 2021–February 2022)! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is *September 30th, 2021*. If you would like to share an idea for a project that you would like to mentor or you are not familiar with the program and want to learn anything more about it, feel free to reply to this email or leave a note on < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289893> [2]. *About the Outreachy program*: Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), coding and non-coding projects with experienced mentors. These internships run twice a year–from May to August and December to March. Interns are paid a stipend of USD 5,500 for the three months of work. They also have a USD 500 stipend to travel to conferences and events. Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy sponsors or jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship. This program is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly invites the following people to apply: - Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. - Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or discrimination in the technology industry in their country of residence. - Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. See a blog post highlighting experiences and outcomes of interns who participated in a previous round of Outreachy with Wikimedia < https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/06/02/outreachy-round-21-experiences-an…> [3] Some tips for mentors for proposing projects: - Follow this task description template when you propose a project in Phabricator: < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/> [4]. Add #Outreachy (Round 23) tag to it. - Remember, the project should require an experienced developer ~15 days to complete and a newcomer ~3 months. - Each project should have at least two mentors, and one of them should hold a technical background. - When it comes to picking a project, you could propose one that is: - Relevant for your language community or brings impact to the Wikimedia ecosystem in the future. - Welcoming and newcomer-friendly and has a moderate learning curve. - A new idea you are passionate about, there are no deadlines attached to it; you always wanted to see it happen but couldn't due to lack of resources help! - About developing a standalone tool (possibly hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge), with fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core infrastructure, it doesn't necessarily require a specific programming language. See roles and responsibilities of an Outreachy mentor < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors> [5]. We look forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti (On behalf of the organization team) [1] https://www.outreachy.org/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289893 [3] https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/06/02/outreachy-round-21-experiences-an… [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/ [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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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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Next datacenter switchover: week of Sept. 13
by Kunal Mehta 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Hi, The next datacenter switchover, going from codfw (Texas) to eqiad (Virginia), will be the week of Sept. 13. The schedule is as follows: Services: Monday, Sept 13th 14:00 UTC Traffic: Monday, Sept 13th 15:00 UTC MediaWiki: Tuesday, Sept 14th 14:00 UTC If you're not familiar with this process, see <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter>. We also recently published a blog post recapping the June switchover: <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/07/23/june-2021-data-center-switchover/>. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287539> is the Phabricator tracking task for this switchover. Thanks, -- Kunal

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MediaWiki 1.37-alpha will be branched as a beta on 14 September 2021
by Tyler Cipriani 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Hey all, This is a quick note to highlight that in three weeks' time, the REL1_37 branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules of MediaWiki itself[0]. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.37, which should be out in late November 2021, approximately six months after MediaWiki 1.36. The branches will reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for the release, 1.37.0-wmf.23, which will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis in the week beginning 13 September 2021 for MediaWiki itself and those extensions and skins available there. (Note that there will not be a 1.37.0-wmf.22 deployment, so there are only two Wikimedia production train deployments inclusive between now and the branch point.) After that point, patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the MediaWiki 1.38 release unless specifically backported[1]. If you are working on a new feature that you wish to land for the release, you now have three weeks to finish your work and land it in the development branch; feature changes should not be backported except in an urgent case. If your work might not be complete in time, and yet should block release for everyone else, please file a task against the `mw-1.37-release` project on Phabricator.[2] If you have tickets that are already tagged for `mw-1.37-release`, please finish them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few weeks. We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.37.0-rc.0, two weeks after the branch point, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.37.0 a few weeks after that. [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-1.37-release/> Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Thick coastal line
by manuelbaudet＠hotmail.nl 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Hello! This morning I found a tick coastal line on wikimedia maps screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/tVGhBO6.png Is this something all countries will get or is it a bug?

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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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