Wikitech-l November 2022

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🚀 Valentín Gutierrez receives Web Perf Hero award!
by Krinkle 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

I’m happy to share that the second Web Perf Hero award of 2022 goes to Valentín Gutierrez! This award is in recognition of Valentín’s work on the Wikimedia CDN over the past three months. In particular, Valentín dove deep into Apache Traffic Server. Valentín improved ATS backend p75 latency by 25%, and reduced ATS p99 disk read latency by up to 1000X. Read more at https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/11/21/web-perf-hero-valentin-gutierrez/ Read about past recipients at Web Perf Hero award on mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Performance_Team/Web_Perf_Hero_awa… -- Timo Tijhof, on behalf of WMF Performance Team.

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Paid collaboration for a custom MediaWiki Skin
by Busayo 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Hello, We want to create a custom skin for our game's MediaWiki site<http://34.142.90.230/index.php/Introduction>. The final look should be more reflective of a game. Something akin to EveSkin<https://skins.wmflabs.org/#/skin/eveskin>. Is there anyone available to help create this? We have no idea how much it will cost, so we are open to quotes. We are ready to start immediately after we finish the detail, as we hope to have the skin implemented by the 1st of December. Thanks. Live long and prosper, Busayo Ajao Marketing & Communications Lead

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Fwd: [Maniphest] [Commented On] T274335: https://taxonbot.toolforge.org/ is a HTTP 503 error
by Martin Domdey 19 Nov '22

19 Nov '22

Hi, if here's anyone who can help me, please check https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274335 to check out the ongoing problem. Subscribe please and reply there to hold the discussion in one discussion room only. Thanks a lot, DocTaxon ... ---------- Forwarded message --------- Von: Aklapper <no-reply(a)phabricator.wikimedia.org> Date: Sa., 19. Nov. 2022 um 17:14 Uhr Subject: [Maniphest] [Commented On] T274335: https://taxonbot.toolforge.org/ is a HTTP 503 error To: Phabricator <no-reply(a)phabricator.wikimedia.org> Cc: <dr.taxon(a)gmail.com> Aklapper added a comment. View Task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274335> @doctaxon <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/doctaxon/>: Hi, see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge#Communication_and_supp… for where to bring up your data interface question. Thanks! *TASK DETAIL* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274335 *EMAIL PREFERENCES* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ *To: *Aklapper *Cc: *Giftpflanze, Aklapper, doctaxon, Devnull, Nintendofan885, Namenlos314, skpuneethumar, Zylc, 1978Gage2001, Operator873, Bsandipan, DSquirrelGM, Jayprakash12345, Chicocvenancio, Tbscho, JJMC89, Jitrixis, Gryllida, scfc, Mbch331, Krenair

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Replacing the Beta Cluster (aka deployment-prep)
by Taavi Väänänen 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Hi all, As you might know, the Beta Cluster (aka deployment-prep)[0] hasn't had an official maintainer for a while, and as a result of that its infrastructure has accumulated a large amount of technical debt. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ The Beta cluster currently tries to emulate the production MediaWiki cluster, but it doesn't have any official support from the SRE team[1][2]. The SRE team, on the other hand, has very different needs from a staging cluster than what Beta currently offers and what the MediaWiki developers need. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215217#4965494 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215217#6665452 I wrote a longer blog post on the subject[3], but I believe it's reasonable to conclude that we should start thinking on what might be used to provide replacements for Beta's current use cases, instead of thinking on how we can keep the current Beta alive in the long term. [3]: https://taavi.wtf/posts/deployment-prep-needs-a-replacement/ It's going to be a fairly large project which would need dedicated resources, but so would keeping Beta up to date with infrastructure changes (for example the MW-on-K8s project which will completely overhaul how MW is deployed and served). Taavi

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Gerrit back since 11:45 UTC
by Antoine Musso 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Hello, The Gerrit 3.5 upgrade did not work as expected. The disk partition filed up due to some disk backed caches filing it which broke the service. Giuseppe and Clément stepped in to create a new disk partition and relocate the Gerrit files to the new partition. We restarted Gerrit at 11:45 UTC and it is running version 3.5.4. The follow up task for the disk space issue is: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323262 I have created a place holder incident report: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2022-11-17_Gerrit_3.5_upgrade -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Gerrit upgrade November 17th 9:00 UTC
by Antoine Musso 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Hello, I will upgrade our Gerrit from 3.4.8 to 3.5.4. I have scheduled it for tomorrow November 17th at 9:00 UTC after the backport window. The service will be unavailable for a few minutes while the upgrade occurs. Release notes: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.5.html Our task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307334 -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Gitlab Runner on Toolforge
by Marcin Szwarc 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Hello, I made a dark vector skin some time ago and recently I’ve been trying to set up a CI/CD in order to find regressions (ie. When the Vector skin is updated and some white elements appear). In order to do so I need a Gitlab Runner installed. For now, I’ve set it up on my PC, however I’d prefer it to be hosted on some always-up machine. I already have a Toolforge tool related to this skin so question arises: Is it possible to set up Gitlab Runner on Toolforge? Or maybe there’s other way to do it (perhaps GitHub Actions)? Thanks in advance, Marcin (User:Msz2001)

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MediaWiki link tables
by Martin Domdey 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

Hi! Can you describe next step of Normalize MediaWiki link tables as T299417 "Normalize templatelinks table" has already been done please? Thank you, Martin ...

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Aaron Swartz day on Nov 12-13: Onsite/online hackathon at the Internet Archive
by Birgit Müller 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

Hi All, The folks at Internet Archive reached out to us to invite people from Wikimedia’s tech community to this years’ Aaron Swartz <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz> day and onsite/online hackathon on Nov 12-13. The hackathon takes place onsite at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, online or at self-organized satellite-meetups. You can find all information here: https://www.aaronswartzday.org/ The organizers still welcome talks, workshops, or ideas for specific projects to work on - this could be a nice opportunity to connect with others, introduce folks to MediaWiki & Co, work & exchange on projects, or attend some of the talks (detailed schedule is not published yet - you can see the list of so-far-confirmed speakers here <https://www.aaronswartzday.org/#speakers>). Admission is free, but you’ll need to register - please find all the info on their page. Also please feel free to share this info with anyone who might be interested. Birgit -- Birgit Müller (she/her) Director of Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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by Cadangan Hp 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

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