Hello,
As part of work to make storage of external links in MediaWiki continue to
scale without risking site stability (T312666
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312666>), we are deprecating most of
the special functionalities around proto-relative URLs (URLs that start
with // instead of https:// or http://).
Proto-relative URLs were beneficial a decade ago, when Wikimedia projects
were being served in both encrypted and unencrypted traffic (http and
https). However, since 2015, all of our traffic has been served encrypted
only, and this functionality doesn’t provide much user benefit any more for
Wikimedia wikis. With HTTP/2, a similar circumstance applies to all
MediaWiki users.
As well as being low-value, our external links storage (the externallinks
table) has grown to be one of the biggest tables for each production wiki.
This is due to many duplications of URL information, added to serve
different use cases. With the changes, we are removing these duplications,
and some of the functionality. You can read more about the work in T312666
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312666>.
Storage of proto-relative URLs has changed to only store HTTPS URLs
Previously, if a proto-relative was added in an edit, MediaWiki internally
treated it as two links one with http:// and one with https://. From this
week forward, for all Wikimedia wikis, the storage will change to store
only https:// URLs. Once those wikis are switched to read the new database
schema, the links will be presented as https only in Special:LinkSearch and
their API counter-parts. This means effectively a proto-relative external
link will be treated like a HTTPS one. This change will also apply to
non-Wikimedia wikis using MediaWiki 1.41+.
expandurl option is deprecated and ignored in the exturlusage and extlinks
MediaWiki action API modules
This means “expandurl” argument in exturlusage and extlinks
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Extlinks> API modules will be ignored
and proto-relative URLs will be always expanded to HTTPS. This will happen
any time a wiki is switched to read from the new externallinks fields. (You
can track the progress in T335343
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335343>) This change will also apply to
non-Wikimedia wikis using MediaWiki 1.41+.
If your wiki heavily uses proto-relative URLs in articles' wikitext, we
recommend changing them to https instead which also improves storage as
every proto-relative URLs takes up two rows.
Thank you,
--
Amir Sarabadani, Staff Database Architect
James Forrester, Staff Software Engineer
Timo Tijhof, Principal Performance Engineer
Hey folks,
The maps and aticle image have been good additions to the multimedia
capabilities in Wikipedia in the last decade, widely used on my home wiki.
For now, in Wikipedia the maps are also rendered as images and become
interactive only when clicked on. This makes them potential candidates for
being displayed as article images in article without a photo.
I would like to find out how complicated it would technically be to make
the article image extension also capable of using map images? I know this
is probably nowhere on the roadmap, I'm only interested in the technical
part of the idea.
Thanks,
Strainu
Hi,
For about a week MediaWiki Codesearch was serving outdated and
incomplete results (and later partially down outright) because of a full
disk. This has been fixed now, you may wish to re-run searches as necessary.
The full disk was accidentally caused by switching between gerrit and
gerrit-replica (as previously discussed on this list)[1][2], so I
deleted all the old gerrit-replica repository copies and also added ~20G
more disk space to the instance. Monitoring did correctly pick up that
there was some issue once the disk was full, it just wasn't properly
examined because of hackathon travel / activities.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336710#8877525
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337263
-- Kunal / Legoktm
Hello. I tried to start an svg translation. Added just a couple of switch
statements, just to see how it works before the rest job. But it doesn't.
Could you tell me, please, what am I doing wrong? Thank you.
Igal (User:IKhitron)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AMoscow_metro_map_mul…
Hi! The default value of the installer's script path parameter was changed
in gerrit 133222 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/133222> to
make the installation process more intuitive. If you use the installer in
your scripts, you might want to make sure that script path is set
explicitly. (To keep the old behavior, add "--scriptpath wiki".)
Hello all,
The Code of Conduct Committee is a team of five trusted individuals (plus
five auxiliary members) with diverse affiliations responsible for general
enforcement of the Code of conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces.
Committee members are in charge of processing complaints, discussing with
the parties affected, agreeing on resolutions, and following up on their
enforcement. For more on their duties and roles, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee.
This is a call for community members interested in volunteering for
appointment to this committee. Volunteers serving in this role should be
experienced Wikimedians or have had experience serving in a similar
position before.
The current committee is doing the selection and will research and discuss
candidates. Six weeks before the beginning of the next Committee term,
meaning July 16, 2023, they will publish their candidate slate (a list of
candidates) on-wiki. The community can provide feedback on these
candidates, via private email to the group choosing the next Committee. The
feedback period will be two weeks. The current Committee will then either
finalize the slate, or update the candidate slate in response to concerns
raised. If the candidate slate changes, there will be another two week
feedback period covering the newly proposed members. After the selections
are finalized, there will be a training period, after which the new
Committee is appointed. The current Committee continues to serve until the
feedback, selection, and training process is complete.
If you are interested in serving on this committee or like to nominate a
candidate, please write an email to techconductcandidates AT wikimedia.org
with details of your experience on the projects, your thoughts on the code
of conduct and the committee and what you hope to bring to the role and
whether you have a preference in being auxiliary or main member of the
committee. The committee consists of five main members plus five auxiliary
members and they will serve for a year; all applications are appreciated
and will be carefully considered. The deadline for applications is *the end
of day on May 31 2023*.
Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think
may be qualified and interested.
Best,
Martin Urbanec, on behalf of the Code of Conduct Committee
The 1.41.0-wmf.9 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0].
The new version is currently deployed to group1, but can proceed no
further until these issues are resolved:
* T336962 - UnexpectedValueException: Unknown image suggestions API
kind: istype-depicts
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336962
* T336964 - InvalidArgumentException: Data for lt_namespace and lt_title
must be non-empty
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336964
Once these issues are resolved train can resume.
Thank you for any help resolving these issues!
-- Your disgruntled train drivers
[0]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330215
[1]. https://versions.toolforge.org/
