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RFC Discussion 5th September: ParallelMaintenance helper class for multi-process maintenance scripts (Kate Chapman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 15:48:33 -0500 From: Chris Koerner &lt;ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org&gt; To: A public mailing list about Wikimedia Search and Discovery projects &lt;discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-08-27 Message-ID: &lt;CAKW0rmFEToLHyTrZ2BkrwmFkUQADwKbhsW+GhLUvNqusV6X2ig(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-08-27. A short update this week. Use the extra bits for something good. :) As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) === * Installing new disks for diskspace extension in public cluster, longer lags possible, please bear with it. * Categories are updated from daily diffs in internal cluster now, enabling public cluster after all disks are installed. ---- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R Yours, Chris Koerner Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 15:55:19 -0500 From: Chris Koerner &lt;ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org&gt; To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, mobile-l &lt;mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: [Wikitech-l] Readers Monthly update for August 2018 Message-ID: &lt;CAKW0rmEELjoJLcKzpvYe7dZ7M1LwLZt5p4csuJX=n07NmGQVng(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello all, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for August 2018. Feedback and questions are encouraged. ==Discussions== === Apps=== * The Android team has been hard at work on a limited beta test of a subset of echo notifications in the app, designed to encourage repeat contributions. [0] Check out the full update on our |project page. [1] * iOS released a major redesign of the app's Explore feed, adding the ability to customize the content on your home screen and make it easier to mix content from across languages. [2] A small follow-up bug fix update will be released early next week. iOS also made progress on design research on Wikitext editing: Watch our project page for updates soon.[3] === Web === * Web team have begun compiling a list of common problems that they wrestle with trying to make our content mobile friendly. The end result is Recommendations for mobile friendly articles. [4] These are recommendations not guidelines and some are more feasible/easy to change then others. We ask that you raise awareness and contribute to the talk page with any questions, suggestions you have. *Web has updated the Advanced mobile contributions project page and shared outcomes from Wikimania interviews. [4] * We are close to running an A/B test for mobile friendly page issues - you can get a sneak preview on our staging instance which will present the new treatment 50% of the time. [5] === Reading Infrastructure === * Maps ** Upgrading OS to Stretch (continued) ** Added Stretch testing instance (deployment-maps04) to the Beta Cluster ** Upgrading node-mapnik to 3.7.2 (mapnik 3.0.20) ** Posted the August 14, 2018 update on Status of map styles [6] ** Start regenerating low-zoom levels monthly ** Improving tooling for invalidating cached map tiles *Services ** Ran Android announcement for the new multi-language search and feed issue in multiple languages ** PCS media endpoint: *** Updated to be ready for <audio> tags (Previously Parsoid used <video> tags for audio) *** Added language code for descriptions and artists ** PCS mobile-html endpoint: *** Made some improvements in the presentation of the content, but still more to come *** Making change to CSS in page library to fix an infobox issue, also present in the native apps due to infobox collapsing. [7] [8] ** REST Mobile endpoints have been removed from non-Wikipedia projects (T201103#4490994) [9] (Platform team) * Other ** (with MediaWiki Platform team) Added support for skin-specific selector to TemplateStyles === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [10] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Android_editing_features#17_August_2018 [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions [5] https://reading-web-staging.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Pharmacovigilance… [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/Status_of_map_styles [7] https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-page-library/pull/158 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201381 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201103#4490994 [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates --- Subscribe to receive theses updates as on-wiki notifications or opt-in email. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Readers_Monthly The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Status_updates Yours, Chris Koerner Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 21:01:04 -0700 From: Kate Chapman &lt;kate(a)cascadiatm.com&gt; To: Wikimedia developers &lt;wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: [Wikitech-l] RFC Discussion 5th September: ParallelMaintenance helper class for multi-process maintenance scripts Message-ID: &lt;266f3aa9-b73b-a17a-7c0b-f783caed9304(a)cascadiatm.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi All, A friendly reminder that TechCom is hosting a RFC discussion on RfC: ParallelMaintenance helper class for multi-process maintenance scripts <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201970>. This RFC aims to parallelize long running maintenance scripts to allow them to be spread out across multiple CPUs. The meeting is scheduled for 5 September at 2pm PST(21:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office. If you haven't joined a #wikimediaoffice meeting before more information can be found here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate> More information regarding the TechCom RFC process is available here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Processes#RFC_process> Thanks, Kate -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor) ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ------------------------------ End of Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 182, Issue 4 ******************************************