Hi,
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has
> changed:
>
> https://bluejeans.com/396234560
I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition
because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of
experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service?
anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without
sharing your microphone and camera?
am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack
that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud)
hosting option? are we paying for this?
-Jeremy
Hello,
can someone to update list https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10500 which
contains repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer.
I found in list that much repositories are empty, and repositories which
aren't available on Gerrit.
So, can someone please update this list of repositories (in
mediawiki/extensions) which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer, but at
least, contains one PHP file. or to provide me command with which I can
update list when I want, so I don't need to request it every time.
Best regards,
Zoran.
P. S.: Happy weekend! :)
Hi everyone,
I want to notify you that I have, on behalf of the WikiTeq company, made a
task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298277 for requesting repository
ownership for the Lingo extension.
In case that you have any kind of questions, please let me know. :)
Best regards,
Zoran
(If you don’t work with links tables such as templatelinks, pagelinks and
so on, feel free to ignore this message)
TLDR: The schema of links tables (starting with templatelinks) will change
to have numeric id pointing to linktarget table instead of repeating
namespace and title.
Hello,
The current schema and storage of most links tables are: page id (the
source), namespace id of the target link and title of the target. For
example, if a page with id of 1 uses Template:Foo, the row in the database
would be 1, 6, and Foo (Template namespace has id of 6)
Repeating the target’s title is not sustainable, for example more than half
of Wikimedia Commons database is just three links tables. The sheer size of
these tables makes a considerable portion of all queries slower, backups
and dumps taking longer and taking much more space than needed due to
unnecessary duplication. In Wikimedia Commons, on average a title is
duplicated around 100 times for templatelinks and around 20 times for
pagelinks. The numbers for other wikis depend on the usage patterns.
Moving forward, these tables will be normalized, meaning a typical row will
hold mapping of page id to linktarget id instead. Linktarget is a new table
deployed in production and contains immutable records of namespace id and
string. The major differences between page and linktarget tables are: 1-
linktarget values won’t change (unlike page records that change with page
move) 2- linktarget values can point to non-existent pages (=red links).
The first table being done is templatelinks, then pagelinks, imagelinks and
categorylinks will follow. During the migration phase both values will be
accessible but we will turn off writing to the old columns once the values
are backfilled and switched to be read from the new schema. We will
announce any major changes beforehand but this is to let you know these
changes are coming.
While the normalization of all links tables will take several years to
finish, templatelinks will finish in the next few months and is the most
pressing one.
So if you:
-
… rely on the schema of these tables in cloud replicas, you will need to
change your tools.
-
… rely on dumps of these tables, you will need to change your scripts.
Currently, templatelinks writes to both data schemes for new rows in most
wikis. This week we will start backfilling the data with the new schema but
it will take months to finish in large wikis.
You can keep track of the general long-term work in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300222 and the specific work for
templatelinks in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299417. You can also
read more on the reasoning in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224.
Thanks
--
*Amir Sarabadani (he/him)*
Staff Database Architect
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Since the beginning of the year, the Wikimedia Language team has enabled
translation backports for MediaWiki core, extensions and skins hosted on
Gerrit. On a weekly schedule compatible translations from master branch are
backpored to all the supported release branches. Currently supported
branches are 1.35–1.38.
Translation backports partially replace the purpose of the
LocalisationUpdate extension. Wikimedia sites no longer use the extension,
and to our knowledge only a few other users of the extension exist, because
it needs manual setup to use.
We, the Language team, think that maintaining the LocalisationUpdate
extension is no longer a good use of our time. We are asking for your
feedback about the future of this extension.
We are planning to:
* Remove LocalisationUpdate from the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
starting from version 2022.07
* Remove us as maintainers of the extension
Additionally, based on the feedback, we are planning to either mark the
extension as unmaintained, transfer maintenance to a new maintainer, or
request the extension to be archived and removed from the list of
extensions bundled with MediaWiki core if there is no indication that
anyone uses this extension.
We request your feedback and welcome discussion on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300498. Please let us know if you are
using this extension and whether you would be interested in maintaining it.
*Anticipated questions*
Q: What about Wikimedia sites: does this mean they will not get frequent
translation updates as they used to have?
A: We still think this is important, but we do not think the previous
solution can be restored. We would like to collaborate on new solutions.
One solution could be more frequent deployments.
-Niklas
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 (WDQS),
Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT
/ 17:00-18:00 CEST
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–4 / EDT
Hi everyone,
In 2019, the German-speaking wikis selected “Make working with templates
easier” as the focus area of Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes
project. Since then, our team has made improvements in different areas, to
help template creators as well as users of the wikitext editor and
VisualEditor. Our work on this focus area is coming to an end, so I’d like
to summarize what happened and lay out the next steps:
Two changes from our Templates project have been available on all* wikis
for a while already:
-
A new attribute “suggested values” was introduced to help you clarify
what values a parameter may expect. [1]
-
Line numbers are shown in the “Template” namespace when syntax
highlighting (CodeMirror extension) is turned on. [2] A few wikis have
these line numbers in _all_ namespaces. If you want this for your wiki as
well, please reach out to us.
Several other changes were deployed to a small group in the past months. A
big thanks to Catalan, Turkish, Greek, Malay, Twi, French, Hungarian,
Hebrew, Finnish, Dagbani and German Wikipedia, to English Wikivoyage and
Nauruan Wiktionary as well as Wikitech wiki for testing these changes and
giving feedback to help us improve these projects. These changes are now
coming to more wikis:
-
Finding and inserting templates will become easier with an improved
search (in the TemplateWizard & in the template dialog of VisualEditor and
New Wikitext mode). [3]
-
In VisualEditor, you’ll be able to remove a template from a page via the
context menu, just like removing a table or an image. [4]
-
In VisualEditor, the template dialog will become bigger and descriptions
will be more visible. [5]
-
When using syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension)*, matching
brackets will be highlighted [6] and the color scheme will be updated
for better readability [7].
The planned deployment date for all of these changes is March 9 (and March
16 on English Wikipedia).
A few weeks later, we’ll be deploying the last improvements from our
Templates project:
-
For syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), a colorblind-friendly
color scheme will be added. You’ll be able to activate it via a user
setting.
-
A range of fundamental changes to the VisualEditor template dialog will
be deployed. They will make it easier to understand what is expected from a
template, to navigate the template dialog, and to add parameters to a
template.
Feedback on all the projects is much appreciated on their respective talk
pages. Thanks a lot on behalf of the Technical Wishes team,
Johanna, Community Communications Technical Wishes
---
* All improvements in the CodeMirror extension, which provides syntax
highlighting, only apply to wikis that have the extension installed. This
is generally true for left-to-right language wikis, because unfortunately
the extension doesn’t work sufficiently for right-to-left languages yet
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Suggested_values_for_…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_f…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/VisualEditor_template…
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Bracket_Matching
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Improved_Color_Scheme…