Wikitech-l January 2022

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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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Wikitext, Document Models, and HTML5 Output
by Adam Sobieski 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Wikitech-l, Hello. I have a question about the HTML output of wiki parsers. I wonder about how simple or complex that it would be for a wiki parser to output, instead of a flat document structure inside of a <div> element, an <article> element containing nested <section> elements? Recently, in the Community Wishlist Survey Sandbox<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Sandbox>, the speech synthesis of Wikipedia articles<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Sandbox#Spoken_ar…> was broached. The proposer of these ideas indicated that, for best results, some content, e.g., “See also” sections, should not be synthesized. In response to these interesting ideas, I mentioned some ideas from EPUB, referencing pronunciation lexicons from HTML<https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub3/epub-contentdocs.html#sec-pls> and SSML attributes in HTML<https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub3/epub-contentdocs.html#sec-xhtml-ssml-at…>, the CSS Speech Module<https://www.w3.org/TR/css-speech-1/>, and that output HTML content could be styled using the CSS Speech Module’s speak property. In these regards, I started thinking about how one might extend wikitext syntax to be able to style sections, e.g.,: == See also == {style="speak:never"} Next, I inspected the HTML of some Wikipedia articles and realized that, due to the structure of the output HTML documents, it isn’t simple to style or to add attributes to sections. There are only <h2>, <h3>, <h4> (et cetera) elements inside of a containing <div> element; sections are not yet structured elements. The gist is that, instead of outputting HTML like: <div class="mw-parser-output"> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Heading">Heading</span></h2> <p>Paragraph 1</p> <p>Paragraph 2</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Subheading">Subheading</span></h3> <p>Paragraph 3</p> <p>Paragraph 4</p> </div> could a wiki parser output HTML5 like: <article class="mw-parser-output"> <section id="Heading"> <header><h2><span class="mw-headline">Heading</span></h2></header> <p>Paragraph 1</p> <p>Paragraph 2</p> <section id="Subheading"> <header><h3><span class="mw-headline">Subheading</span></h3></header> <p>Paragraph 3</p> <p>Paragraph 4</p> </section> </section> </article> Initial thoughts regarding the latter HTML5 include that it is better structured, more semantic, more styleable, and potentially more accessible. If there is any interest, I could write up some lengthier discussion about one versus the other, why one might be better – and more useful – than the other. Is this the correct mailing list to discuss any of these wiki technology, wiki parsing, wikitext, document model, and HTML5 output topics? Best regards, Adam

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Coolest Tool Award 2021: Tomorrow, 17:00 UTC!
by Andre Klapper 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Hi everyone! A reminder that the Coolest Tool Award event https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award will happen online tomorrow, Friday 14 January at 17:00 UTC. See https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1642179615 for your timezone. Here is more information about the venues: * The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnwhDAdrxE * The following venues can be used for socializing: - Youtube live stream chat: https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki - Twitter #CoolestToolAward : https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CoolestToolAward&f=live - #wmhack Telegram group : https://t.me/wmhack - #wikimedia-hackathon on Libera IRC We hope to see you there! andre, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2021 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Regarding Problem in Setting-up development environment .
by Ameygupta 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

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Minerva Neue skin will be bundled with MediaWiki 1.38
by Jon Robson 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

If you are not an extension developer, you can safely ignore this message. I am excited to announce that the Minerva Neue skin will be bundled with MediaWiki in 1.38 per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191743 The Minerva Neue skin powers the mobile site of Wikimedia projects, so it makes sense to include this skin for 3rd party MediaWiki instances that want a responsive but simplified experience. The implication of this is that extension developers should be making sure their code compatible with MinervaNeue. Note, that Minerva Neue operates in two modes (a desktop or mobile mode) depending on whether MobileFrontend is installed, however, MobileFrontend is still not part of the MediaWiki bundle so this mode doesn't need to be tested at this point. You can tell if you are in Minerva desktop mode by testing in an incognito window and verifying that you see a more (ellipsis) dropdown in the toolbar. e.g. Test on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva?useskin=minerva NOT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva?useskin=minerva if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reply to this e-mail or the Phabricator ticket. Thanks for reading! Jon

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