Wikitech-l April 2022

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Gerrit & CI maintenance April 7th at 7:00 UTC
by Antoine Musso 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hello, I will restart the Gerrit and CI services tomorrow Thursday April 7th at 7:00 UTC. The services will be unavailable for up to half an hour while the maintenance is being conducted. I have shifted the morning UTC backport and config window by half an hour. The MediaWiki train for 1.39.0-wmf.36 scheduled for 8:00 UTC might be delayed a bit depending on how many config and backports we have to process. Synchronization will be on Libera.chat IRC channel #wikimedia-operations cheers, -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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🚂🧪Trainsperiment Survey (Due April 8th)
by Tyler Cipriani 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

The Trainsperiment is complete! Thank you to all the folks who commented and helped solve blockers— *together* *we deployed four trains in one week!* We have another favor to ask: we want to hear what you thought of the experiment. _____ *Trainsperiment survey* If you have the mental space to take a survey, we'd appreciate it. - Link: https://forms.gle/8P8BDuUrT1JKtCu36 - Deadline: We'll leave the survey open until *Friday, April 8th* We'll share what we learn (anonymously) shortly after that! ___ Thanks all! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022
by Trey Jones 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '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 (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, April 6th, 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

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Give WMF Feedback on Model Cards
by Hal Triedman 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hi all, The WMF Privacy and Machine Learning Platform teams are developing model cards to increase visibility, transparency, and accountability of algorithmic decision-making on WMF platforms. A model card <https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993> is a document about a machine learning model that seeks to answer basic questions about the model in a clear and concise manner. The broad goal of this project is for every ML model hosted by WMF to have a model card for the community and public to understand, discuss, and govern that model. We would love for you to give some feedback on the talk page of our prototype: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:HTriedman_(WMF)/Language_Agnostic_Link… We're specifically looking to answer the following questions: - What aspects of the model card are useful, informative, or helpful? - What aspects of the model card are confusing or unhelpful? - Are there any features or sections that aren't on the model card that you would like to see? Thanks so much! Hal

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Requesting ownership for the HidePrefix extension
by Zoran Dori 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Hi all, I made a task on the Phabricator[0], where I've requested ownership for the HidePrefix extension. Be free to place comments, and any questions for me if you have. [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305317 Best regards, Zoran

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🚀 SD0001 receives Web Perf Hero award!
by Krinkle 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

I'm happy to share that the next Web Perf Hero award goes to SD0001, in recognition of their many contributions and positive impact on the performance of Wikimedia software. I'll share two major examples. SD0001 implemented Package files <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Package_files> for Gadgets <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets> (T198758 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198758>). This enables gadget maintainers to bundle JSON files, unpacked via `require()`. This improves performance by avoiding delays from extra web requests. It also improves security by allowing safe contributions to JSON pages, as pure data with validated syntax on-edit. Previously, admins on Wikimedia wikis for example, would need script editing access for this and rely on copy-paste instructions from another person via the talk page. SD0001 also introduced `Module::getSkins` in ResourceLoader, and used it in the startup module <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Architecture#Front-end> to optimise away unneeded module registrations <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2019/09/19/wikipedias-javascript-initialisat…>. We just shipped the first adoption of this for Gadgets (T236603 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236603>). In the future, we'll use this to optimise MediaWiki's own skin modules as well. This award is given once a quarter, and manifests as a Phabricator badge. More information and past recipients: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Performance_Team/Web_Perf_Hero_awa… Phabricator badge: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/view/17/ -- Timo Tijhof, on behalf of WMF Performance Team.

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2022-03
by aklapper＠wikimedia.org 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2022-03): 375 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2022-03): 1069 Task authors in (2022-03): 557 Users who have closed tasks in (2022-03): 277 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2022-03): 330 Tasks created in (2022-03): 2456 Tasks closed in (2022-03): 2265 Open and stalled tasks in total: 49125 * Only open tasks in total: 48227 * Only stalled tasks in total: 898 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 12 Needs Triage: 758 High: 1155 Normal: 1648 Low: 2306 Lowest: 2376 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2022-03): 13 To see the names of the most active task authors: * Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/ * Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar * Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs * See the author names in the "Submitters" panel TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 . Yours sincerely, Fab Rick Aytor (via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Fri 01 Apr 2022 12:00:21 AM UTC)

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