Wikitech-l January 2023

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JSON of Lint errors list
by Martin Domdey 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Hi! Is it possible to parse a JSON of this Lint errors list, maybe by API or anyhow? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LintErrors/obsolete-tag&… Thank you Martin ...

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Avoid invisible characters in page titles
by Martin Domdey 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

Hi, isn't it better to avoid invisible characters in page titles while creating the pages? Please look here, there has been problems with invisible characters working with it when parsing or page linking those page titles with invisible unicode characters: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Wurgl#Liste_der_Biografie… Instead of this there will never be a problem when invisible characters within the page title name will be deleted when creating the page. What do you think about it and what technical approaches do already exist? How are LTR and RTL marks dealt if creating pages with them? Thank you very much and kind regards Martin aka user:Doc_Taxon

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OOUI window manager
by Igal Khitron 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Hello. Could you tell me, please, is there a way to check if a window exists in manager by its symbolic name? hasWindow() does not except such a name. getWindow() returns empty window if it was not exists before. getWindow()...isInitialized() is always true. All I need is to check if the window "win1" exists, and if it's not, create it. Thank you. Igal (User:IKhitron)

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Cloud VPS users, please claim your projects
by Andrew Bogott 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Hello cloud-vps users! It's time for our annual cleanup of unused projects and resources. Every year or so the Cloud Services team tries to identify and clean up unused projects and VMs. We do this via an opt-in process: anyone can mark a project as 'in use,' and that project will be preserved for another year. I've created a wiki page that lists all existing projects, here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2022_Purge If you are a VPS user, please visit that page and mark any projects that you use as {{Used}}. Note that it's not necessary for you to be a project admin to mark something -- if you know that you're currently using a resource and want to keep using it, go ahead and mark it accordingly. If you /are/ a project admin, please take a moment to mark which VMs are or aren't used in your projects. When February arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming resources from unused projects. If you think you use a VPS project but aren't sure which, I encourage you to poke around on https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ to see what looks familiar. Worst case, just email cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org with a description of your use case and we'll sort it out there. Exclusive toolforge users are free to ignore this email. Thank you! -Andrew and the WMCS team

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major upgrade of PageProperties extension (a proof of concept for the use of SLOTS)
by tdvit＠mail.com 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

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help mediawiki extension
by Tim Moody 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

On MW 1.39.0 and .1 and PHP 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.9, I am trying to revise a parserhook extension to mediawiki that uses wfParseUrl(). https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/GlobalFunctions_8php.ht… says that is deprecated and I should use UrlUtils::parse(). The former looks like a function and the latter looks like a class, perhaps a subclass of Utils. My first question is what if any use statement do I need. The extension already has use Html, but use UrlUtils gives an error because it can't be found. Do I need to instantiate Utils or UrlUtils and invoke the urlparser as $urlUtils -> parse()? When I invoke UrlUtils::parse I get a complaint about calling a non-static method statically. The old code was $url_parts = wfParseUrl( $graph_url ); and the new $url_parts = UrlUtils::parse( $graph_url ); Any help would be appreciated. Tim

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Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023
by Guillaume Lederrey 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Hello all! The Search Platform Team 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, January 11, 2023 Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET 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 Have fun and see you soon! -- *Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him) Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Unsubscribe from mail list
by Arpit Maheshwari 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

This is a request to please kindly unsubscribe me from your mailing list

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List related to repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer
by Zoran Dori 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

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! :)

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Repository ownership of the Lingo extension
by Zoran Dori 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

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

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