Wikitech-l June 2023

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Database dumps
by Byrial Jensen 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Until some weeks ago http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html used to show 4 dumps in progress at the same time. That meant that new database dumps normally was available within about 3 weeks for all databases except for enwiki and maybe dewiki where the dump process due to size took longer time. However the 4 dumps processes at one time become 3 some weeks ago. And after massive failures at June 4, only one dump has been in progress at the same time. So at the current speed it will take several months to come thru all dumps. Is it possible to speed up the process again using several dump processes at the same time? Thank you, Byrial

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User-Agent:
by Domas Mituzas 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hi! from now on specific per-bot/per-software/per-client User-Agent header is mandatory for contacting Wikimedia sites. Domas

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Acquiring list of templates including external links
by Takashi OTA 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hoi, This is an inquiry from my friend in academia, researching about Wikipedia. He would like to know whether there's a way to acquire a list of templates including external links. Here are some examples including external links. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:JOI/doc https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Twitter/doc Such links are stored in externallinks.sql.gz, in an expanded form. When you want to check increase/decrease of linked domains in chronological order through edit history, you have to check pages-meta-history1.xml etc. In a such case, traditional links and links by templates are mixed, Therefore, the latter ones (links by templates) should be expanded to traditional link forms. Sorry if what I am saying does not make sense. Thanks in advance, --Takashi Ota [[U:Takot]]

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EBNF grammar project status?
by Steve Bennett 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

What's the status of the project to create a grammar for Wikitext in EBNF? There are two pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitext_Metasyntax http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec Nothing seems to have happened since January this year. Also the comments on the latter page seem to indicate a lack of clear goal: is this just a fun project, is it to improve the existing parser, or is it to facilititate a new parser? It's obviously a lot of work, so it needs to be of clear benefit. Brion requested the grammar IIRC (and there's a comment to that effect at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7 ), so I'm wondering what became of it. Is there still a goal of replacing the parser? Or is there some alternative plan? Steve

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Phabricator upstream shutdown
by Brian Wolff 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

It sounds like phabricator upstream is going away: https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_op… Just curious, are we planning to continue using it long term or move to something else? -- Brian

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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Announcing: Path review board
by Brian Wolff 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Yesterday there was a conversation about code review on irc and among other things, how sometimes patches can get "stuck". I had an idea for a way to improve things. I'm not sure if it is a good idea, but there's only one way to find out. So without further ado, announcing the Code Review Patch Board: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_review/patch_board In short - each person is allowed to list one of their patches on the board that they would really like to see reviewed. You can only list one patch at a time, and it should be a patch that you have been unable to get review for for at least a week through normal means. See the page for the full list of guidelines. I encourage people to give it a try. Add a patch you wrote that you cannot get a review for. Or if you have +2 rights, try giving some love to these underloved patches. I would also love to hear feedback on the general idea as well as the current guidelines. To repeat, the url is: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_review/patch_board Thanks, bawolff

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Announcing MediaWiki 1.40.0
by Sam Reed 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.40! This includes the security fixes announced in 1.35.11/1.38.7/1.39.4. Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidate and provided feedback, as well as the developers who worked hard to get several important fixes merged in time for the 1.40 final release. To see what's changed in 1.40, see the release notes below. MediaWiki 1.40 is the second release of MediaWiki 'born' with PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 support included. We anticipate there may be some as-yet undiscovered bugs with PHP 8.x support, of which we'd love to hear reports so they can be fixed. We plan to back-port fixes to 1.39, 1.38 and 1.35 to the extent possible. MediaWiki 1.40 is due to be supported until the end of June 2024. As a reminder, 1.35 LTS is due to become end-of-life in November 2023, and 1.38 became end-of-life today, 30 June 2023. === Changes since MediaWiki 1.40.0-rc.0 === * Localisation updates. * (T330464) Work around argument corruption bug in XMLReader::open. * build: Updating mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config to 0.12.1. * Fix frame and frameless rdfa depending on file existing. * (T329214) Pass whether current rev of file exists to Linker::makeBrokenImageLinkObj. * (T334659) Handle thumb errors when !$enableLegacyMediaDOM. * A manualthumb that doesn't exist should be considered a thumb error. * (T313157) IndexPager: Also protect against $offset being 0. * (T335612, CVE-2023-36674) SECURITY: Move badFile lookup to Linker. Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/6139/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.40-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-core-1.40.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-core-1.40.0.zip Patch to previous version (1.40.0-rc.0): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.patch.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-core-1.40.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-core-1.40.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.patch.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.patch.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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