Hello all,
This is an important announcement for all the tool builders and maintainers
who access Wikidata’s data by *querying directly Labs database replicas*.
In May-June 2019, the Wikidata development team will drop the wb_terms
table from the database in favor of a new optimized schema. Over years,
this table has become too big, causing various issues.
This change requires the tools using wb_terms to be updated. Developers and
maintainers will need to *adapt their code* to the new schema before the
migration starts and switch to the new code when the migration starts.
The migration will start on *May 29th*. On May 15th, a test system will be
available for you to test your code.
The table being used by plenty of external tools, we are setting up a
process to make sure that the change can be done together with the
developers and maintainers, without causing issues and broken tools. Most
of the documentation and updates will take place on Phabricator:
- In this Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>,
you can find a description of the changes and the process, and you can ask
for more details or for help in the comments. This is also where updates
will be announced if necessary.
- On the Tool Builders Migration board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wb_terms_-_tool_builders_migration>
you will find all the details about the migration, how to update your
tool <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221765>, and you can add your
own tasks.
- If you need to discuss with the Wikidata developers or get more
specific help, we set up two dedicated IRC meetings and a session at the
Wikimedia hackathon. More information in this task
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>.
We are aware that this change will ask you to make some important changes
in your code, and we are willing to help you as much as our resources allow
us to. We hope that you will understand that this change is made to avoid
bigger issues in the near future.
Note that this change is not impacting Wikibase instances outside of
Wikidata. A dedicated migration plan and announcement will follow.
We strongly encourage you to not wait until last minute to make the changes
in your code. If you have any question or issue, we will be happy to help.
In order to keep the discussions in one place, please ask questions or
raise issues directly in the Phabricator task and board.
Thanks for your understanding,
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
Question can be asked in English & Hebrew!
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer
developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help
you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This
can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best
contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew)
--
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Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
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Hello ambassadors.
I can't find relevant info in the documentation so I've come to ask here -
Is it possible to run a keyword search in deleted page content?
I've got this situation where a few pages were deleted by mistake, and
redirects to those pages were speedily deleted by other admins. Now there
are no searchable traces of what redirects we should restore, and admins
don't know where in the deletion log to look. Any advice?
Deryck
*(apologies for crost-posting - feel free to share this announcement in
your communities)*
Hello all,
Having a service providing short links exclusively for the Wikimedia
projects is a community request that came up regularly on Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085> or in community discussions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Crea…>.
After a common work of developers from the Wikimedia Foundation and
Wikimedia Germany, we are now able to provide such a feature, it will be
enabled on April 11th on Meta.
*What is the URL Shortener doing?*
The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short
URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order
to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks or on wikis.
The feature can be accessed from Meta wiki on the special page
m:Special:URLShortener
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:URLShortener> (will be enabled on
April 11th). On this page, you will be able to enter any web address from a
service hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, to generate a short URL, and to
copy it and reuse it anywhere.
The format of the URL is w.wiki/ followed by a string of letters and
numbers. You can already test an example: w.wiki/3 redirects to
wikimedia.org.
*What are the limitations and security measures?*
In order to assure the security of the links, and to avoid shortlinks
pointing to external or dangerous websites, the URL shortener is restricted
to services hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. This includes for example:
all Wikimedia projects, Meta, Mediawiki, the Wikidata Query Service,
Phabricator. (see the full list here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>)
In order to avoid abuse of the tool, there is a rate limit: logged-in users
can create up to 50 links every 2 minutes, and the IPs are limited to 10
creations per 2 minutes.
*Where will this feature be available?*
In order to enforce the rate limit described above, the page
Special:URLShortener will only be enabled on Meta. You can of course create
links or redirects to this page from your home wiki.
The next step we’re working on is to integrate the feature directly in the
interface of the Wikidata Query Service, where bit.ly is currently used to
generate short links for the results of the queries. For now, you will have
to copy and paste the link of your query in the Meta page.
*Documentation and requests*
- If you have any question or requests, feel free to leave a comment
under this Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085>
- The user documentation is available here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>:
please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener>
Thanks a lot to all the developers and volunteers who helped moving forward
with this feature, and making it available today for everyone in the
Wikimedia projects!
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
The 1.33.0-wmf.24 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0].
The new version is deployed to group0[1], but can proceed no further until
these issues are resolved:
* Citoid should only usurp "<ref" / ctrl+shift+k shortcuts if full
configured - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219510
* RefreshLinksJob::runForTitle: transaction round 'RefreshLinksJob::run'
already started on commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220037
The first issue was deemed noncritical for group1 but the second caused a
large spike in DBTransactionError rates. The second issue already has a
proposed fix but had not yet merged at the closing of the train deployment
window.
If both issues are resolved by tomorrow's train window, group1 and group2
will be promoted in succession at that time (barring further issues).
Thank you for your help resolving these issues!
Your humble train toiler,
Dan
[0]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206678
[1]. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/>
--
Dan Duvall
Software Engineer, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org>
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
Question can be asked in English, Persian, Hindi & Kannada!
⏰ Please note: due to European summer time change the meetings now start at
3 pm UTC! ⏰
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer
developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help
you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This
can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best
contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit
teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.