Wikitech-l February 2022

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Phabricator database master maintenance
by Manuel Arostegui 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

Hello, Tomorrow (Tuesday 15th Feb 2022) at 08:00 AM UTC, we'll set Phabricator to read-only mode to perform some maintenance on its primary database master: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301219 Reads will not be affected, but writes will be locked for around 1 minute. Sorry for the inconveniences . Manuel.

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ClassCrawler – extremely fast and structured code search engine
by dima.batt＠speedandfunction.com 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

Speed & Function prototyped a ClassCrawler - extremely fast and structured code search engine. PROBLEM: Working with Wikimedia code is time-consuming and risky. It takes a lot of time and effort when it comes to research of classes and methods with specific characteristics, research of dependencies and complexity, and understanding how refactoring impacts the whole system. SOLUTION FROM S&F: - ClassCrawler code search tool - https://classcrawler.prettyclear.com/ - Project repository in GitLab - https://gitlab.com/snf1/classcrawler; https://gitlab.com/snf1/classcrawler-php WHAT IS a ClassCrawler? ClassCrawler is a code search engine. It parses PHP code into structure → saves to MongoDB → provides results in simple Web interface, so you can use all power of MongoDB query to find exactly what you need. See the Guide and Use Cases - https://classcrawler.prettyclear.com/guide …And this is just the beginning of what can be done in the future. WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK - We share this idea from developers (us) to developers – YOU! So you can start using this capable and powerful tool in your everyday workflow when it is released. - Your feedback is extremely valuable. Please tell us what you think and help us make it perfect for you and other developers. - You can share your feedback directly through ClassCrawler – https://classcrawler.prettyclear.com/feedback Your friends from S&F

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Implementing jumbo frames/LACP?
by Brian King 11 Feb '22

11 Feb '22

Hello Wikitech, I’m a new SRE on the Search team. As Ryan and I are in the middle of relocating many large shards on our Elastic cluster, I wanted to ask your thoughts about using jumbo frames and/or LACP for our physical Elastic nodes. We’re also moving to new hardware 10Gbps networking, so it seems like a good time to start optimizing our network settings. Let us know what you think (and please feel free to suggest any other optimizations). Best, Brian

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Etherpad maintenance this Thursday
by Daniel Zahn 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

The service Etherpad (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org) might be unreachable during the following maintenance window: This Thursday, Feb 10th 2022, from 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC (9 to 10:30 AM PST). It will be upgraded to a new version on a new server during this time. We hope the actual downtime will be much shorter than that but you should not count on it. While existing pads should not be affected by this in any way, please keep in mind that in general this is a service without an SLO supported on a best effort basis. Best regards, Daniel -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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Policy for on wiki JavaScript
by Jon Robson 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Despite the importance of on-wiki code (gadgets, site scripts and user scripts) to our projects, there are no guidelines on how to write code in skins, extensions in a way that supports these users. The lack of guidelines historically has created unnecessary conflict between editors and Wikimedia developers. For example, the common task of changing a class name can cause havoc with certain gadgets that depend on associated styles. Another significant pain point, is now that we are tracking JavaScript errors across our projects, broken gadgets have become more of a problem, as they make it harder for us to find and triage errors in existing user workflows. I have spoken to various developers across MediaWiki extensions and it seems pretty clear to me that a policy would be helpful for establishing expected norms. I've begun drafting a policy based on the discussions I've been having with Wikimedia engineers on: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/Extension:Gadget/Policy and am inviting *Wikimedia developers who build skins or extensions, and gadget developers* to engage in the existing talk page topics and bring up new topics. You can also reply directly to me, either personally or publically if you have any feedback you want me to consider. Thanks in advance for your participation in this process.

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How can I start Contributing for gsoc 2022
by 2020kuec2020＠iiitkota.ac.in 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

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🚂🌈Summary of 1.38.0-wmf.20 train deployment
by Ahmon Dancy 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

This email is a summary of last week's Wikimedia production deployment of 1.38.0-wmf.20 - Conductor: Ahmon Dancy - Backup Conductor: Brennen Bearnes - Blocker Task: T293961 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293961> 🔢 Stats Sparklines comparing with the last 5 trains. - 346 Patches ▁▇▇▇█ - 0 Rollbacks ▁█▁▂▁ - 0 Days of delay ▂█▁▂▁ - 2 Blockers ▂▃▆█▁ 🎉 Trainbow Love ✨Thanks to folks who reported or resolved blockers: - Raimond Spekking - Samuel

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Is there still a maximum page size in effect?
by Strainu 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Hi, I am aware of the various limits in the NewPP report. I'm trying to determine if we currently we have some max page size (before or after processing). The documentation on mw.org and en.wp is a bit confusing on the subject and personal experimentation shows that substituting templates allows be to go past the 2MiB page size. If we don't have such a limit, I'm not exactly sure why do we need the Post‐expand include size limit? Why is output generated by transclusion harder on the parser than output directly in the page? Thanks, Strainu

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Regarding Contribution to WIKIMEDIA
by Raag Bhutani 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Hi Sir/Ma'am I am new to Open Source contributions.I am keenly interested in contributing to the Wikimedia Open-Source Organization. I am an undergraduate with knowledge in Frontend Development with the skill set of Html,Css,Js,ReactJS(Javascript Library). I have been working on projects based on Web Development. I would like to begin contributing to the projects and issues. Please, can I get some guidance on how to get started with any of the projects.I am going through some references. But it would be great If I get a path to follow on which it follows this techstack as provided by me. Thanks and Regards, Raag Bhutani

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Facing error in pushing the patch
by Shreyaans Jain 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

Hey everyone I was working on Videocuttool issue https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297992 and now the issue is resolved but I am unable to push the patch. I have properly set the ssh key on both my system as well as gerrit and also did the steps many times but still facing the problem. It will be great if anyone can help me in it . Thanks Regards Shreyaans Jain

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