Wikitech-l August 2021

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Get ready for the Wikimania Hackathon 2021!
by Srishti Sethi 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Hello everyone, We hope that you are ready and are excited for the upcoming 24hrs Wikimania Hackathon :) This will be a virtual space for you to experiment, work on technical projects, and have discussions with fellow Wikimedians! *Day and hours* Hackathon will start at 5:00 am UTC on August 13th, Friday (the first day of Wikimania), and run until August 14th, Saturday, 4:59 am UTC. You are welcome to continue hacking on other days of Wikimania. There will be a final showcase on the last day, August 17th, with more information coming soon on the social channels. *Activities* An open schedule is up on the Hackathon's subpage on the Wikimania wiki: < https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon/Schedule> [1]. There are still some free slots, and you are welcome to reserve one for a session. We will be using two virtual hacking rooms powered by Jitsi; links to join are on the schedule page. For projects and a complete list of activities, check out the Phabricator workboard: < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5402/> [2] *Newcomer activities* For those of you who are a newcomer to the event or Wikmedia’s technical ecosystem, we have put together three Q&A sessions and a list of resources for you to get started. *Networking* See a list of who is attending, topics they are interested in, and how you can contact them: < https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon/Participants> [3]. Please add yourself to this list, and also see a complete list of social channels and read about the code of conduct for Wikimedia's technical spaces that will be in effect in all these channels: < https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Social_channels> [4]. If you have any questions, ask on the Hackathon's talk page: < https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021_talk:Hackathon> [5]. We look forward to meeting you in less than a day :) Cheers, Srishti On behalf of the Wikimania Hackathon organizing team [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon/Schedule [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5402/ [3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon/Participants [4] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Social_channels [5] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021_talk:Hackathon *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Phabricator database master maintenance - Thursday 12th August
by Manuel Arostegui 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Hello, On Thursday 12th August at 06:00 AM UTC we'll switch our phabricator database master to a different host ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288197) There'll be 1 or 2 minutes of read-only time. Writes will be blocked, reads will continue as usual. Sorry for the inconveniences. Manuel.

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Support for Automating Source Code Documentation
by Felipe Ebert 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

Hi, I am currently working on designing a bot to support open-source software development: the idea is that the bot can analyze code review comments, detect those related to explaining the reasons behind the implementation choices and suggest these reasons as source code comments. As the first step of this design process we would like to ask developers involved in code reviews to answer a survey (we expect it to take not more than 25 minutes): https://forms.office.com/r/9nD4HtNbTK Thanks in advance, -- Felipe Ebert Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

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Gadget AjQuickDelete
by Dhaval S. Vyas 08 Aug '21

08 Aug '21

Hi, I had imported gadget AJQuickDelete from commons to gu.wiki a few years back, which worked perfectly well until I updated it last month. Not it has disappeared from the navigation bar. Can someone please help me by looking in to it? Thanks, Dhaval

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Phasing out old jQuery versions
by Amir Sarabadani 07 Aug '21

07 Aug '21

Hi, (If you don't use jQuery in your code or gadgets, you can ignore this email) in 2017 jQuery 3 got deployed to production and a backward compatibility layer was introduced to prevent old codes from breaking. Since then it has been emitting warnings in your console. All start with "JQMIGRATE". Some of these old jquery breaking changes have been deprecated in versions released in 2006 or 2007. We are slowly pulling the plug and removing that compatibility layer (which would reduce the default payload and make Wikipedia faster for everyone). Yesterday, that layer was removed from mediawiki CI, tests in gated extensions have passed but there is a chance that your extension might be broken in CI now if it's not part of gated extensions. In that case, please fix the errors. We will move forward to deploy this in Wikimedia wikis soon meaning really old gadgets will also break if they don't fix their code. Please check your console and if you see jquery migration deprecation warnings, attend to them because they will break soon. Firefox doesn't give trace to warnings anymore but in Chrome (and using ?debug=1) you can easily find the source of deprecation warnings. We already fixed many usages in code and gadgets and we will make sure to fix heavily used gadgets and user scripts but we can't possibly fix everything and it's the maintainers' responsibility to fix deprecation warnings that is being emitted for years. Another aspect is that if you use jquery.ui, this library has been deprecated as well and I recommend moving away from it but if you still use it and migration can be hard, we patched our jquery.ui fork to make sure it doesn't break. Still, if you find a part of jquery.ui that has not been fixed, let me know. You can track the work in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280944 and the metrics of deprecations can be found in https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000037/mw-js-deprecate?orgId=1&refresh=1… Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience. -- Amir (he/him)

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GitLab: Implementation & migration status update
by Brennen Bearnes 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

tl;dr: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/ exists now and individuals can host projects there; at the team level we're moving some RelEng projects over and will be in touch with early adopters soon; you can find a roadmap for this work at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Roadmap - read on for more details. ---- Hi all, It's been a while since my last update on WMF's implementation of GitLab, so here's another one. When I last wrote, we were hoping to have a minimum-viable installation of GitLab by the end of June. That mostly worked out. gitlab.wikimedia.org is now live, and seeing (limited) real usage. So can you use it? Yes, with caveats. * Once T288162 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288162 - is resolved in the near future, everyone with a Wikimedia developer account should be able to sign in. Until then, use is limited to members of the WMF, WMDE, and NDA groups. * No shared CI job runners are provided yet * No teams just yet, only individual projects, getting ACL right is hard :) * Your data will not be obliterated from here forward, *probably* * We have backups even! Can teams use it? Soon! RelEng is porting a few projects over, and then we'll get in touch with teams on the early adopter list. Things we're thinking about: * Shared CI runners: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287279 * ACL groups and membership: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282842 * Early adopters: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282842 The WMF has also hired two full-time serviceops folks with a GitLab focus. Lastly, I'll note that we have a roadmap for this work, with rough timelines, here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Roadmap As ever, you can follow work on this project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5057/ Feel free to reach out with any questions via mail, Phabricator, or #wikimedia-releng on Libera Chat IRC. -- Brennen Bearnes Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Gerrit upgrade August 3rd 16:00 UTC
by Ahmon Dancy 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hello, We will upgrade our Gerrit to [version 3.3]. We have scheduled it on Tuesday, August 3rd at 16:00 UTC. We will first upgrade the [Gerrit replica] then the primary server. The service will thus be unavailable for a few minutes while we conduct the operation and restart the service. The July 19th upgrade took a bit longer than expected since we were trying our runbook for the first time. We have since improved our documentation and addressed a few configuration glitches we had. This upgrade comes with a new feature: "Attention Set". It replaces change *assignees* with a list of people that are expected to act on the change. It helps better differentiate changes you have already reviewed from the one you have to review or amend. The feature is nicely explained on upstream documentation page: http://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/3.3.1/user… Ahmon, Antoine, Brennen Release Engineering [version 3.3] https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.3.html [Gerrit replica] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gerrit-replica.wikimedia.org Upgrade task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262241

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05 Aug '21

Hello all, We invite you all to sign up for Toolhub's Quality Signal sessions! Toolhub <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub> [1] is a community-authored catalog of Wikimedia tools. On Toolhub, you will be able to discover new tools in the Wikimedia ecosystem, promote their use in your wiki community, and help improve them by contributing data. Toolhub's first release is planned around Wikimania 2021. The Toolhub team is currently working on identifying quality indicators through conversations with tool users and developers. As a tool user, how do you know which tool is reliable, useful, and safe to use? As a tool maintainer, what makes it attractive to you to contribute to an existing tool? What information are you looking for to decide whether to join a tool project? We hope that these sessions will help gather quality indicators for tools and provide valuable insight toward developing new features to convey the quality. Want to organize a quality signal session in your community in August/early September? Please get in touch on the talk page or sign-up for an already planned session by adding your name below it: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions> [2]. Your feedback, thoughts, ideas would be valuable! If you are attending Wikimania, we are running a few introductions and a feedback session as part of the unconference. Learn more here: < https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub> [3]. Cheers, Srishti On behalf of the Toolhub team [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions [3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Wikimania Hackathon 2021: Call for sessions and projects now open!
by Srishti Sethi 04 Aug '21

04 Aug '21

Hello all, This email is a reminder to start proposing projects and sessions for this year’s Wikimania hackathon, taking place on August 13th (the first day of Wikimania). You may have already seen the announcement email last week with all the details. This year’s hackathon will take place in a 24 hrs format covering all time zones. You can start proposing a session or a project by following the guidelines here: < https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Propose_a_project_or_a_…> [1]. We also encourage folks to reuse the video of a previously recorded session (in lecture format) to organize a watch party-style session. And, you can pause during or after for questions and discussions. That way, you have to do less prep, and one can watch your session at any time during the event. There isn't a specific focus area proposed this time, so your session or project needn't fit under a theme. Anything that involves MediaWiki development or covers a technical area in the Wikimedia ecosystem. Plus, we welcome sessions that would be helpful to newcomers–new to the event, our technical spaces, or projects. If you have any questions, feel free to use the related talk page to contact the organizing team or join the community conversation on Telegram: <https://t.me/wikimaniachat> [2]. We look forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti On behalf of the Wikimania Hackathon organizing team [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Propose_a_project_or_a_… [2] https://t.me/wikimaniachat *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—August 4th, 2021
by Trey Jones 03 Aug '21

03 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, August 4th, 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.* Trey Jones Sr. Computational Linguist, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC–4 / EDT

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