Wikitech-l February 2022

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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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Facing a Problem in issue #105
by Ameygupta 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

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Re: [Ops] Re: Tendril shutdown
by Daniel Zahn 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Yes, it's much prettier than dbtree. Nice! On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 4:48 PM Aaron Schulz <aschulz(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > I really like the visual tree on https://orchestrator.wikimedia.org/ . Good work! > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 3:18 AM Manuel Arostegui <marostegui(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> If you don’t use tendril.wikimedia.org or dbtree.wikimedia.org, feel free to ignore this message. >> >> >> As of today, tendril is now retired and the main page is replaced with a list of replacement for different services tendril used to provide: >> >> >> For checking out our dbtree and replication data: >> >> if you are in the NDA LDAP group, use Orchestrator >> >> otherwise, use the information page on noc.wikimedia.org. For more detail you can also check eqiad.json or codfw.json >> >> If you are looking for slow queries log, go to slow queries dashboard using our standard observability platform (logstash) (NDA required) >> >> >> Tendril has been a great tool for us during the years, but unfortunately it is impossible to maintain with modern MariaDB versions (it uses TokuDB, which is no longer available on MariaDB after 10.1 and needs to be compiled separately) nor its webservice is compatible with modern php versions. Its database is still running on Stretch and on MariaDB 10.1 (which has not been supported for a year already) and it is having serious scalability issues. This would unblock us from removing a lot of legacy home-brew craft and replace them with more modern toolings such as orchestrator. >> >> >> Orchestrator has been in place for a few months now, and provides us with a great way to see and (in the future) manage replication topologies. For now we are using it only for visualization purposes but in the future we’d like it to also help us to handle replication changes (it can be done from the UI or via CLI) and recover topologies automatically if they fail and involve masters or intermediate masters. >> >> >> The slow queries dashboard in logstash offer multiple advantages over tendril. You can set the threshold to see slow queries that took longer to run. You can filter out code paths you’re not interested in or zoom in to relevenet code paths. You can limit it to write queries or read queries only. Also, it provides id of the request making the slow query, so you can cross check it with the rest of logstash or hadoop to identify problematic behavior. >> >> >> If you need it for the transition period, you can still access it in tendril-legacy.wikimedia.org. But it will be shut down in a month. You can follow the work of shutting down tendril in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297605. >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ops mailing list -- ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to ops-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Ops mailing list -- ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to ops-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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Production Excellence #40: January 2022
by Krinkle 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents There were no incidents this January. Pfew! 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 is concluded. Read about past incidents at Incident status <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_status> on Wikitech. Trends During 2021, I compared us to the median of 4 incidents per month, as measured over the two years prior (2019-2020). I'm glad to announce our median has lowered to 3 per month over the past two years (2020-2021). For more plots and numbers about our incident documentation, refer to Incident stats <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>. Since the previous edition, we resolved 17 tasks from previous months. In January, there were 45 new error reports <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/f24Xwi0bGGZU/#R> of which 28 have been resolved within the same month, the remaining 17 have carried over to February. With precisely 17 tasks both closed and added, the workboard remains at the exact total of 298 open tasks, for the third month in a row. That's quite the coincidence. Figure 1: Unresolved error reports by month. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/266/production_excellence…> 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 *🎸 Doc Brown <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II>*: *It could mean that that point in time contains some cosmic significance.., as if it were the temporal junction point of the entire space-time continuum… Or it could just be an amazing coincidence.* 🔗 Share or read later via https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/266/

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Talk to the Search Platform Team—February 2nd, 2022
by Trey Jones 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds an open meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927 Hope to talk to you next week! —Trey Trey Jones Staff Computational Linguist, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC–5 / EST

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