Wikitech-l January 2022

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regarding Open Source Development
by duke dhal 23 Jan '22

23 Jan '22

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OOUI v0.43.0 released -- new features, icon amendments and performance improvements
by Volker E. 23 Jan '22

23 Jan '22

Hi, excited to share that we've released OOUI v0.43.0 last Thursday. It will rollout on the normal train tomorrow, Tuesday, 18 January 2022. Highlights in this release since v0.42.0: - MessageWidget features now a `showClose` option for the optional closing notices et al. - MenuSelectWidget highlights the first selectable option instead of the visible one. Thanks to volunteer Func. - Numerous icon additions and improvements are featured: -- The only nominal breaking change is removal of the `destructive` variant from 'close' icon. The 'close' icon shouldn't be used for removing or deleting things for user-experience consistency, please revisit your codebase and use 'trash' icon instead. -- 'stopHand' icon was deprecated and renamed to 'hand' icon while being aligned to the Design Style Guide's icon guidelines[0]. -- 'watchlist' icon was added. Thanks to Alex Hollender. -- Large number of 'bold' and 'italic' icons for specific languages were aligned to the guidelines. Thanks to new Design Systems team peer, Bárbara Martínez Calvo. I'm specifically excited about these changes as they emphasize our goal to provide first-class experience for our diverse language communities. With updated OOUI demos[1] and demos of future Vue.js-based[2] UI toolkit Codex, you're now able to see and compare all per language icons. Thanks to Roan Kattouw and Ed Sanders. - Last, but not least, more than 20 different performance optimizations across widgets were included in this release, thanks to Thiemo Kreuz at current work focus by Wikimedia Deutschland. One call for notice here, widgets don't feature default implicit `aria-disabled="false"` any more to save bytes sent to client, only when set dynamically. There was one case of a template breakage written to check for this –now missing attribute. Please carefully test if this might affect your code.– You can find details on additional new features, code-level, styling and interaction design amendments, and all improvements since v0.42.0 in the full changelog[4]. If you have any further queries or need help dealing with deprecating changes, please let me know. As always, interactive demos and library documentation is available on mediawiki.org[5], there is comprehensive generated code-level documentation and interactive demos and tutorials hosted on doc.wikimedia.org[6]. OOUI version: 0.43.0 MediaWiki version: 1.38.0-wmf.18[7] Date of deployment to production: Regular train, starting Tuesday 18 January [0] - https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/visual-style_icons.html [1] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/?page=icons&theme=wikimediau… [2] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Vue.js [3] - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/oojs/ui/+/v0.43.0/History.md [4] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI [5] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/ [6] - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Tuesday,_January_18 Best, Volker

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About Open Source Programming
by duke dhal 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

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Requesting Membership in MediaWiki Group
by Kent Davis 20 Jan '22

20 Jan '22

Re: phabricator maniphest T299425

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CI server maintenance Jan 18 16:00 UTC
by Antoine Musso 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hello, The continuous integration server contint2001 will be restarted for a hardware maintenance on Tuesday January 18th at 16:00 UTC. During the maintenance, the CI systems will be unavailable: - Jenkins - Zuul - https://integration.wikimedia.org/ The out-of-band management system requires an update to address intermittent loss of connectivity. We have to restart the server. Time conversions: PST 8:00 CT 10:00 UTC 16:00 CET 17:00 The task is: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283582 cheers, -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Production Excellence #39: December 2021
by Krinkle 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents One documented incident last month (Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). 2021-12-03 mx <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-12-03_mx> Impact: A portion of outgoing email from wikimedia.org was delivered with a delay of upto 24 hours. This affected staff Gmail, and Znuny/Phabricator notifications. No mail was lost, it was eventually delivered. Incident follow-up Remember to review and schedule Incident Follow-up work <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4758/> in Phabricator. These are preventive measures and tech debt mitigations written down after an incident. Read about past incidents at Incident status <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_status> on Wikitech. Recently resolved incident follow-up: Create paging alert for high MX queues <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297144>. Filed in December after the mail delivery incident, resolved later that month by Keith (Herron). Limit db execution time of expensive MW special pages <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297708>. Filed in December after various incidents due to high DB/appserver load, carried out by Amir (Ladsgroup). Trends In December we reported 22 new errors in December <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/DhZaBJ5PI1NA/#R>, of which 5 have since been resolved, and 17 remain open and have carried over to January. From the 298 issues previously carried over, we also resolved 17, thus the workboard still adds up to 298 in total. In previous editions, we sometimes looked at the breakdown of tasks that remained unresolved. This time, I'd like to draw attention to the throughput and distribution of tasks that did get resolved. Production errors resolved in the month of December, by team and component (query <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/vIEXYsei8lwE/#R>): * Community-Tech (2): GlobalPreferences (1), CodeMirror (1). * DBA: DjVuHandler (1). * Editing-team: DiscussionTools (1). * Fundraising Tech: CentralNotice (1). * Growth-Team (8): GrowthExperiments (6), Image-Suggestions (1), StructuredDiscussions (1). * Language-Team: UniversalLanguageSelector (1). * Parsoid (1). * Product-Infrastructure: TemplateStyles (1). * Readers-Web (2). * Structured-Data (2). * Wikidata team: Wikidata-Page-Banner (1). * Missing steward (1): MediaWiki-Logevents (T289806: Thanks Umherirrender!). For the month-over-month numbers, refer to the spreadsheet data <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTrUCAI10hIroYDU-i5_8s7pony…>. Outstanding errors Oldest unresolved errors: * (June 2020) WikibaseClient: RuntimeException in wblistentityusage API. T254334 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254334> * (June 2020) WikibaseClient: Deadlock in EntityUsageTable::addUsages method. T255706 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255706> Take a look at the workboard and look for tasks that could use your help. → https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/ Thanks! Thank you to everyone who helped by reporting, investigating, or resolving problems in Wikimedia production. Thanks! Until next time, – Timo Tijhof 🔗 Share or read later via https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/265/

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Small Wiki Tools User Feedback Survey
by Alexandra Shagzhina 15 Jan '22

15 Jan '22

Hello everyone, I am an Outreachy participant in Round 23 [1], <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_23> working on a project to develop demo videos and toolkits to demonstrate the use of essential tools for smaller wiki communities: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292135> [2]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292135> This Outreachy project is part of the larger Small wiki toolkits project to build technical capacity in smaller language wiki communities. More about the initiative: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits> [3]. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits> As part of the project, we are running a survey to gather information about the tools that you find most helpful for your work on the wikis that might benefit for video documentation for others. It will not take longer than 5 minutes to fill out this survey; your feedback will be super valuable for us! < https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQHjansDXfLBGWPNhGBpqWTrhRdAWc5tA…> [4]. <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQHjansDXfLBGWPNhGBpqWTrhRdAWc5tA…> This survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data handling, see the survey privacy statement: < https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Popular_Tools_for_Wikipedia,_Wikidata…> [5]. Best, Alexandra [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_23 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292135 [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits [4] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQHjansDXfLBGWPNhGBpqWTrhRdAWc5tA… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQHjansDXfLBGWPNhGBpqWTrhRdAWc5tA…> [5] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Popular_Tools_for_Wikipedia,_Wikidata…

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Tasks for archiving repositories
by Zoran Dori 15 Jan '22

15 Jan '22

Hi, could someone please finish the left steps in these tasks: 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256690 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256691 so I can proceed with other tasks? It is too long to wait this long. :) Best regards, Zoran

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How to get started with contribution
by Huda Saleem 15 Jan '22

15 Jan '22

Respected sir/madam, I am Huda Saleem, a computer science undergrad, at Barani Institute of Sciences Sahiwal. I am new to open source contributions. But I am well aware of Frontend and Backend Technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Also, I am a python developer too. I would love to contribute to your organization but could you please tell me how to get started? Hoping to hear from you soon. Kind Regards Huda Saleem

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[Train] 🚂🔥1.38.0-wmf.17 blocked
by Dan Duvall 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

The 1.38.0-wmf.17 version of MediaWiki is being held at group0[0] due to a large spike in parser errors on commons and group1 wikipedias upon deployment. The new version is deployed to group0[1], but can proceed no further until these issues are resolved: * T299149 - MWException: Parser state cleared while parsing. Did you call Parser::parse recursively? Once these issues are resolved, the train can move forward. Thank you for your help! -- Your humble train toiler [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299149> [1]. <https://versions.toolforge.org/> -- Dan Duvall Staff Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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