Hello everyone,
The eighth workshop on the topic of "How to interact with Wikidata via
Pywikibot" is coming up - it will take place on Friday, October 7th at
16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join
here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_intera…>
[1].
This workshop will summarise how to access and save information to
Wikidata, including through page generators and queries*, using Pywikibot.
It will also cover the Wikidata conventions about the bot editing,
including the bot approvals process (*queries not included, please bring
your own!). This session will be run by Mike Peel.
To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with
Wikidata and Pywikibot installation.
We look forward to your participation!
Best,
Srishti
On behalf of the SWT Workshops Organization team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_intera…
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello,
I have upgraded Gerrit from version 3.4.5 to 3.4.6. It addresses a
security issue and had one breaking change which should not affect us.
It should not have any user facing change beside slightly better
performance here and there.
Release notes: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.4.html#346
Our task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319513
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Antoine "hashar" Musso
Release Engineering
Hi everyone!
Just a reminder that there are 7 days left to submit your Coolest Tool Award
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> nominations.
Please recommend your favorite tools by October 12.
Thanks!
Komla, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2022
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Seyram Komla Sapaty
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of
1.40.0-wmf.3
* Conductor: Brennen Bearnes
* Backup Conductor: Jaime Nuche
* Blocker Task: T314192 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314192>
* Current Status <https://versions.toolforge.org>
🔢 Numbers
Sparklines comparing with the last 5 trains.
* 208 Patches ██▇▁▃
* 1 Rollbacks ▁▄█▁▄
* 1 Days of delay ▁██▁█
* 1 Blockers ▄▄█▄▁
🌈 Traintastic Folks ✨
Thanks to folks who reported or resolved blockers:
* revi | 레비
* Amir Sarabadani
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Brennen Bearnes
Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
This is a heads-up message about upcoming changes to MediaWiki-Vagrant.
With MediaWiki master now requiring PHP 7.4, MediaWiki-Vagrant is now completely unusable with MediaWiki. Currently, MediaWiki-Vagrant still uses Debian Stretch, for which custom PHP 7.2 packages were compiled. These are the same that were previously used in production. Stretch is now out of support completely, and no PHP 7.4 packages are available for it. Production already switched to Buster and has only compiled PHP 7.4 for that distro. As a result, switching to Debian Buster is the only remaining option. Because the buster-migration branch is out of date and equally broken, it will be abandoned and its patches cherry-picked onto master. A stretch-compat branch will be created but is basically useless unless you're trying to run older wmf release branches.
The phabricator task for the buster migration is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256822.
Mainframe98
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
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described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
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