Wikitech-l June 2023

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No train the week of 2023-06-19
by Tyler Cipriani 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Hi All! There will be *no deployment train the week of 2023-06-19 (Mon, 19 Jun – Fri, 23 Jun).* Mon, 19 Jun is the US holiday Juneteenth[0]—it is a no-deploy day. Release Engineering will have a team-focused work week for the remainder of the week. Backport and config deployments should continue as planned. A long-term calendar of upcoming known deployment disruptions is available on Wikitech[1]. Thank you! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth> [1]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>

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Automatic import of users to /repos/mediawiki on GitLab
by Ahmon Dancy 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Hey all, On Monday June 5th, 2023 at 15:00 UTC (8am US/Pacific) we (the Release Engineering Team) will run scripts[0] to add a bunch of users to the /repos/mediawiki group[1] on GitLab. You may see mail from GitLab as a result. We're adding accounts from the wmf and ops LDAP groups, to be synchronized regularly. We'll also be doing a one-time import of the mediawiki group defined in Gerrit. Users will initially be added with a GitLab role of "Developer". If a user has not yet logged into GitLab with their developer account, this process will first create a GitLab account for them. While there's a lot to be done yet, this is one step in migrating MediaWiki development to GitLab. You can track our progress on this at T335921[2], and review a draft of the proposed namespace layout and permissions policy on mw.org[3]. Thanks! -- Release Engineering [0]. https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-settings/-/tree/main/group… [1]. https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/mediawiki/ [2]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335921 [3]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Policy#MediaWiki_namespace

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Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—June 7, 2023
by Guillaume Lederrey 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '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, May 3, 2023 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 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 Have fun and see you soon! Guillaume -- *Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him) Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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PCS style cache TTL
by Marcin Szwarc 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Hi! I've edited MediaWiki:Common.css on Polish Wikipedia with an intent to hide some template's error messages in the mobile app. After two hours, the app version of an article is still being served with an outdated version of the stylesheet. (https://pl.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Trz%C4%99sienie_ziemi… - these red "ODN: brak numeru strony " shouldn't be visible). How long are stylesheets cached in that API? User:Msz2001

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quarry.wmcloud.org is broken? superset.wmcloud.org is limited.
by Dušan Kreheľ 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Hi, if i wanna run the SQL query on the cswiki, i don't can do. On https://quarry.wmcloud.org are the new queries only stoped (https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/runs/all) and superset.wmcloud.org doesn't have the cswiki (only commonswiki_p, enwiki_p, eowikisource_p, frwiki_p, hewiki_p, mlwiki_p, ptwiki_p, ruwiki_p, thwiki_p and wikidatawiki_p). So what now? Dušan Kreheľ

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Proposal: namespace Archived for mediawiki.org
by Derk-Jan Hartman 01 Jun '23

01 Jun '23

I'm proposing we introduce a new namespace on mediawiki.org. The namespace name will be Archived (numerical id to be determined) and its purpose will be to hold pages like "Subversion" that have the template "historical" applied to it. These pages would move info that namespace and you would get Archived:Subversion, Archived:Manual:Small padlock icon, Archived:Help:Extension:WebFonts etc. This will give us a place outside of the main content namespaces to keep information about configurations, manuals, extensions and skins that we want to keep, but where it will no longer pollute our set of currently relevant information. The namespace will not be part of $wgContentNamespaces and $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault namespaces. Hopefully this will allow for a more searchable and better functioning mediawiki.org when it comes to documentation for new users, while preserving history in the spirit of wikis. I've discussed this with various people at various points in time who all seemed to think this was a good idea, but we've never really had an open discussion about it that could result into action.

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Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023 🧑‍💻📊
by Tyler Cipriani 01 Jun '23

01 Jun '23

Hello! Please take our annual* *Developer Satisfaction Survey*! Link: https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/484133 The survey is open until Fri, 17 Feb 2023—two weeks from today. ____ This survey is for members of the *Wikimedia Developer Community* and covers the following topics: - Code review tooling and process - Code quality - Phabricator - Continuous Integration - MediaWiki development environments - Beta cluster / Staging Please take the survey if you’ve used the above tools as part of your role developing software for the Wikimedia community. We’re soliciting your feedback to: - Measure developer satisfaction, and - determine where to invest resources in the future We will anonymize, explore, and report the data we gather on mediawiki.org. View previous years' survey results: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey Privacy statement: This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:2023_Developer_Satisfaction_Sur…> . Thank you! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ____ *: “annual,” except we missed 2022 🙁

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gotointerwiki-external
by Bináris 01 Jun '23

01 Jun '23

Sorry for disturbing, but I did not find the answer in the docs. I installed a MW 1.39.3 with an automated tool. Then I inserted a row into the interwiki table to make 'hu:' interwiki to recognize huwiki. Now I write hu:anything into the search box, and get a message that I want to leave my wiki. Of course, I know, that's why I did it. What I could dig from translatewiki that the name of this message is 'gotointerwiki-external'. How could I switch this feature off and make my wiki just to go to the desired link? -- Bináris

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Replag
by Martin Domdey 01 Jun '23

01 Jun '23

Hi, it looks like there is a very big replication lag in dewiki. Is a debugging already in progress? Kind regards, Martin ...

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2023-05
by aklapper＠wikimedia.org 31 May '23

31 May '23

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2023-05): 320 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2023-05): 1140 Task authors in (2023-05): 606 Users who have closed tasks in (2023-05): 317 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2023-05): 308 Tasks created in (2023-05): 2244 Tasks closed in (2023-05): 2301 Open and stalled tasks in total: 52896 * Only open tasks in total: 51873 * Only stalled tasks in total: 1023 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 7 Needs Triage: 848 High: 1113 Normal: 1854 Low: 2522 Lowest: 2737 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2023-05): 4 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 phab1004 at Thu 01 Jun 2023 12:00:25 AM UTC)

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