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How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out!
## 📊 Month in numbers
* 6 documented incidents. [1] * 41 new Wikimedia-prod-error tasks created. [2] * 36 Wikimedia-prod-error tasks closed. [3]
The number of incidents in May of this year was comparable to previous years (6 in May 2019, 2 in May 2018, 5 in May 2017), and previous months (6 in May, 8 in April, 8 in March) – comparisons at < https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK%3E.
To read more about these incidents, their investigations, and pending actionables; check < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation#2019%3E.
As of writing, there are 201 open Wikimedia-prod-error tasks (up from 186 last month). [4]
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## 📉 Current problems
Take a look at the workboard and look for tasks that might need your help. The workboard lists known issues, grouped by the month in which they were first observed. → https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/
Or help someone that’s already started with their patch: → https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/pzVPXPeMfRIz/#R
Breakdown of recent months (past two weeks not included):
* November: 2 issues left (unchanged). * December: 1 issue got fixed. 3 issues left (down from 4). * January: 1 issue left (unchanged). * February: 2 issues left (unchanged). * March: 1 issue got fixed. 4 issues remaining (down from 5). * April: 2 issues got fixed. 12 issues remain unresolved (down from 14). * May: 10 new issues found last month survived the month of June, and remain unresolved.
By steward and software component, unresolved issues from April and May:
* Wikidata / Lexeme (API query fatal): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223995 * Wikidata / WikibaseRepo (API Fatal hasSlot): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225104 * Wikidata / WikibaseRepo (Diff link fatal): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224270 * Wikidata / WikibaseRepo (Edit undo fatal): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224030 * Growth / Echo (Notification storage): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217079 * Growth / Flow (Topic link fatal): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224098 * Growth / Page deletion (File pages): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222691 * Multimedia or CPT / API (Image info fatal): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221812 * CPT / PHP7 refactoring (File descriptions): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223728 * CPT / Title refactor (Block log fatal): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224811 * CPT / Title refactor (Pageview fatals): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224814 * ⚠️(Unstewarded) Page renaming: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223175, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205675
💡Ideas: To suggest an investigation to write about in a future edition, contact me by e-mail, or private message on IRC.
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## 🎉 Thanks!
Thank you to everyone who has helped by reporting, investigating, or resolving problems in Wikimedia production.
Until next time,
– Timo Tijhof
🎙“It’s not too shabby is it?”
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Footnotes:
[1] Incidents. – < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=Incident+docu...
[2] Tasks created. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/fHFqxAZwk1fW/#R
[3] Tasks closed. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/y2e1BxPmGlub/#R
[4] Open tasks. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/47MGY8BUDvRD/#R