This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of
1.39.0-wmf.13
- Conductor: Ahmon Dancy (That's my name, don't wear it out)
- Backup Conductor: Jaime Nuche
- Blocker Task: T305219 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305219>
- Status: Rolled out to all wikis on May 26, 2022
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🎉 Trainbow Love ✨Thanks to folks who reported or resolved blockers:
- Bartosz Dziewoński
- Zabe
- Abijeet Patro
- James D. Forrester
- Jon Robson
At the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 that ended yesterday I have showed a program in the Showcase that can convert blocks from visual-programming-language Snap! to source code. This is the link to the folder where the program is located in. https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:Hog%C3%BC-456/BlocktoCode/ The program reads an XML-File with the definition of a program and gives the source code as an output. The platform for creating the blocks I used is called Snap!. This is an further development of Scratch. Scratch is an visual programming language based on blocks, that can be combined to create a program. A block is a small sentence with gaps for the variables. In Snap! it is possible to create own blocks and it includes an feature to directly convert blocks to code. I dont know how far this is developed and after I havent understand how to export the result with the code I have written a own program to do that.
What do you think are potential use cases for low code platforms like Snap! within the Wikimedia Projects. From my point of view such platforms offer a chance to make programming accessible to more people. It is from my point of view easier with such a platform to write small programs as without such an support. I am interested in use cases where the built-in codification feature or my program can be used to generate code that will be then useful within the Wikimedia projects.
Have a nice day and I am interested in your thoughts.
Hogü-456
Hey all,
Just a brief notice that we're planning to take gitlab.wikimedia.org
down for around 2 hours this Thursday, June 2nd, at 15:00 UTC for a
migration to new physical hardware.
You can follow this work in Phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307142
We're also available in #wikimedia-gitlab on libera.chat for any questions.
Thanks,
--
Brennen Bearnes
Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
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, June 1st, 2022
Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 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 in a couple of days!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Staff Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC–4 / EDT
Hi all!
I am Lalit from India. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in IT,
currently working as a Software Developer at Redhunt Labs.
I will be working on Extending the WikidataComplete plugin to enable data
donations, recommendations, and gamification. My primary focus would be
implementing a web service interface for data donations to help extend the
Wikidata knowledge base.
My mentors for the project are Dennis Diefenbach, Andreas Both, Aleksandr
Perevalov, and Kunpeng GUO.
I have learned a lot by interacting and contributing to the Wikimedia
community, feeling special to get a chance to give something back to it.
Thanks to my mentors and coordinators from Wikimedia for their continuos to
support. Looking forward to a productive summer ahead ^_^
Thanks,
Lalit
On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 20:22, Lalit Suthar <sutharlalit.97(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I am Lalit from India. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in IT,
> currently working as a Software Developer at Redhunt Labs.
>
> I will be working on Extending the WikidataComplete plugin to enable data
> donations, recommendations, and gamification. My primary focus would be
> implementing a web service interface for data donations to help extend the
> Wikidata knowledge base.
>
> My mentors for the project are Dennis Diefenbach, Andreas Both, Aleksandr
> Perevalov, and Kunpeng GUO.
>
> I have learned a lot by interacting and contributing to the Wikimedia
> community, feeling special to get a chance to give something back to it.
> Thanks to my mentors and coordinators from Wikimedia for their continuos to
> support. Looking forward to a productive summer ahead ^_^
>
> Thanks,
> Lalit
>
> On Sat, 28 May 2022 at 14:33, Roberto Garcia <garciamtz00(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone!
>>
>> My name is Roberto from Mexico, currently living in the UK. I am an
>> undergraduate Computer Science and Philosophy student. I will be working
>> alongside Mike, Andy, and Feliciss on the "What's in a Name?" Outreachy
>> project. This will allow for names from scientific articles to be
>> automatically detected and added to Wikidata.
>>
>> I have genuinely fallen in love with Wikidata throughout the contribution
>> period, and I am so excited to work with the team to make this project come
>> to life!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Roberto
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 8:51 AM Vaidehi b19 208 <
>> b19208(a)students.iitmandi.ac.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> This is Vaidehi from India. I am currently an undergraduate Engineering
>>> student. I will be contributing to the Programs and Events Dashboard by
>>> making it capable of tracking edits to various namespaces. This would
>>> basically improve dashboard's flexibility by allowing organizers to get
>>> statistics for particular namespaces.
>>>
>>> I am thankful to my mentor Sage Ross for guiding me till now. Also
>>> enjoyed interacting with other people on the team.
>>>
>>> Really excited and looking forward to a great time ahead.
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> Vaidehi
>>>
>>> On Wed, 25 May, 2022, 11:10 pm Vasanth Gopa, <gopavasanth1999(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Folks,
>>>>
>>>> Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
>>>> Summer of Code 2022 and Outreachy Round 24!
>>>>
>>>> *Google Summer of Code 2022*
>>>>
>>>> 1. Nivas Ramisetty, India, Campaigns Retention Metrics Dashboard
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304826>
>>>> Mentors: KCVelaga, Jayprakash12345.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Ayan Sarkar, India, Improve the picture selector of the
>>>> Commons Android app
>>>> <https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/4764>
>>>> Mentors: Syced, Aditya.
>>>>
>>>> 3. Lalit Suthar, India, Extending the WikidataComplete plugin for
>>>> enabling data donations, recommendations, and gamification
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301613>
>>>> Mentors: Gabinguo
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gabinguo>, Aleksandr Perevalov
>>>> <https://github.com/Perevalov>
>>>>
>>>> 4. Ankit Gupta, India, Edit Request Wizard
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300454>
>>>> Mentors: Enterprisey
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Enterprisey>, SD0001
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SD0001>.
>>>>
>>>> 5. Shashwat Khanna
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shashwat312>, India, Modernize
>>>> JavaScript build process and dependencies for Wiki Education Dashboard
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301731>,
>>>> Mentors: Sage (Wiki Ed)
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sage_(Wiki_Ed)> .
>>>>
>>>> 6. Lennard Hofmann
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:LennardHofmann>, Germany, Rewrite
>>>> the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302098>,
>>>> Mentors: Mike Peel
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>.
>>>>
>>>> 7. Amal Paul, India, Command-line interface for Canasta
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301893>,
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279998>
>>>> Mentors: Jeffrey Wang
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MyWikis-JeffreyWang>, Yaron Koren
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yaron_Koren>
>>>>
>>>> *Outreachy Round 24*
>>>>
>>>> 1. Vaidehi Atpadkar, Add support for tracking specific namespaces
>>>> to Programs & Events Dashboard
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301732>
>>>> Mentors: Sage Ross.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Nazia Tasnim, Build Python library to work with html-dumps
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302237>
>>>> Mentors: Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson.
>>>>
>>>> 3. Feliciss, What's in a name? Automatically identifying first
>>>> and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207>
>>>> Mentors: Mike Peel
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>, Pigsonthewing
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>.
>>>>
>>>> 4. Luis Roberto, What's in a name? Automatically identifying
>>>> first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata
>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207>
>>>> Mentors: Mike Peel
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>, Pigsonthewing
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>.
>>>>
>>>> We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves
>>>> on
>>>> this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief
>>>> overview of the project they will be working on.
>>>>
>>>> We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our
>>>> community,
>>>> and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over
>>>> the
>>>> summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their
>>>> enthusiasm
>>>> and commitment!
>>>>
>>>> Thank you to Srishti, Jay Prakash
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345> and Aisha Khatun
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aisha_Khatun> for coordinating
>>>> this round along with me!
>>>>
>>>> [1] Google Summer of Code 2022:
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2022
>>>> [2] Outreachy Round 24:
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_24
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Gopa Vasanth <https://gopavasanth.me>
>>>> Twitter <https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999> | LinkedIn
>>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopa-vasanth/> | GitHub
>>>> <https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit
>>>> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth>
>>>>
>>>> “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or
>>>> lose.”
>>>>
>>>>
I'm happy to share that the first Web Perf Hero award of 2022 goes to Amir Sarabadani!
This award is in recognition of Amir's work (@Ladsgroup) over the past six months, in which he demonstrated deep expertise of the MediaWiki platform and significantly sped up the process of saving edits in MediaWiki. This improved both the potential of MediaWiki core, and as experienced concretely on WMF wikis, especially on Wikidata.org.
Refer to the below medawiki.org page to read about what it took to *cut latencies by half*:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Performance_Team/Web_Perf_Hero_awa…
This award is given on a quarterly basis, and manifests as a Phabricator badge:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/view/17/
-- Timo Tijhof, on behalf of WMF Performance Team.
A few years ago, I wrote a "yet another" client library for the MediaWiki
action API, and went to the official list on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code , expecting to add my
library. Instead, I found instructions on that page asking that new
libraries be added to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/All
and describing a review process for periodically checking that libraries
meet some basic standards, before copying them over to the main list.
As happens with wiki workflows, this excellent concept fell into disrepair
and with nobody pushing it forward, there seems to be no new review
activity. Without active curation, I think it's unhelpful to have two
separate pages for "reviewed" and unreviewed libraries. My suggestion is
to merge the two pages and add a column for review status, so the
information is all in one place. I imagine this will reduce the work
needed to maintain this list.
Regards,
[[mw:User:Adamw]]
Hi all,
excited to share that we've released OOUI v0.44.0. It already happened
last Tuesday. ;)
Due to activities around Global Accessibility Awareness Day[0] and
Wikimedia Hackathon[1] (hope the ones participating had all fun!) the
release email is coming now.
It is rolling out on the normal train today, Tuesday, 24 May 2022.
Highlights in this release since v0.43.0:
- Dropped support for IE<10, FF<38, Android<4.4 in sync with updated
MediaWiki and Wikimedia's browser matrix. This removes a significant
amount of CSS rules and hacks specifically for those browsers[2]
-- This also enables us to use modern CSS techniques like Flexbox,
here resulting in a fix for a 6 year old bug on Firefox by Ed Sanders.
You can find details on additional new features, code-level, styling
and interaction design amendments, and all improvements since v0.43.0
in the full changelog[3].
Thanks to all code contributors, and to James D. Forrester and Bartosz
Dziewoński for their consistently excellent help – on this release
again.
If you have any further queries or need help dealing with breaking
changes, please let me know.
As always, interactive demos and library documentation is available on
mediawiki.org[4], there is comprehensive generated code-level
documentation and interactive demos and tutorials hosted on
doc.wikimedia.org[5].
OOUI version: 0.44.0
MediaWiki version: 1.39.0-wmf.13[6]
Date of deployment to production: Regular train, starting Tuesday 24 May 2022
[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accessibility/Global_Accessibility_Awarenes…
[1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/
[2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306486
[3] - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/oojs/ui/+/v0.44.0/History.md
[4] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI
[5] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/?page=icons&theme=wikimediau…
[6] - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Tuesday,_May_24
Best,
Volker
Hi Everyone,
On behalf of the 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon Committee, we would like to thank
you for coming to the Wikimedia Hackathon!
Please consider giving us feedback on the Hackathon and your suggestions
for improvement.
There are two ways to give feedback:
1. Fill out the Wikimedia Hackathon Survey <
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGbCKj4xyP0H3wi >. For more
information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_Post-Event_Survey…>.
The
survey will remain open until May 29, 2022.
2. If you would like to share feedback but do not wish to take the
Qualtrics survey, you can leave feedback on the Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022_Feedback>.
Finally, check out the badges
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/How_to#Joining_a_se…>
the committee made. You can put them on your userpages to show your
participation.
Thank you again for joining us! It was so much fun to meet everyone and
hack together.
See you at the Wikimania Hackathon in August!
Haley, on behalf of the
2022 Wikimedia Hackathon Team