Wikitech-l March 2018

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What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 March 2018)

by Pine W

There was thoughtful, robust, and civil conversations on Wikimedia-l last week about multiple topics including translation and Wikimedia's relationship with Facebook. Translation of Phabricator's interface is now possible. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225. Regex searches for the titles of articles will soon be possible. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156474. New stewards were elected. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2018. There were some interesting research reviews that were published in the February 28, 2018 Wikimedia Research Newsletter. See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/28/research-newsletter-february-2018/. Global preferences became available for beta testing. See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089562.html. WMF's new Deputy General Counsel was introduced on the Wikimedia Blog. See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/02/tony-sebro-deputy-general-counsel/. What's making you happy this week? Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

6 years, 2 months

Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-02-26

by Chris Koerner

Good day, I have a quick update from the Search Platform team this week. As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * We've added the possibility to do regex search on titles and it'll be in production (with documentation) once we reindex. [0] * Erik worked on various experiments with varying MLR training using hyperparameter — it ended up having only some minor optimizations when done [1] === Maps === * The Collaboration team will be improving maps with an engagement lasting until June 2018. [2] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156474 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186134 [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089564.html --- 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 Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

6 years, 2 months

Readers Monthly update for February 2018

by Chris Koerner

Hello, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for February 2018. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Discussions== === Web === * TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task. [0] [1] [2] * An update to user preferences on mobile web was deployed. The feature allows users to better understand the settings - partially the Beta settings. [3] [4] === Reading Infrastructure === * Released /page/summary 1.3. While the version change sounds like a simple update it's a different implementation. Instead of TextExtracts it's using the lead paragraph from Parsoid and does some things to it to shorten it. There are also more fields. [5] For more details look at the spec. [6] This is used by the apps link previews and on the web by Page Previews. === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [7] === Multimedia === * The feature to upload 3D files to Commons has been deployed. [8] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176082 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:TemplateStyles [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Temp… [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089506.html [4] http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Settings [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/Summary/1.3.0 [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/API_Specification [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2018-February/007972.html --- 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 Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

6 years, 2 months

Wikimedia Hackathon 2019: Looking for Proposals

by Rachel Farrand

*Hello!Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2019 Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for proposals! Details about the decision process can be found here: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2019_Decision_Process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2019_Decision_Process>- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_l… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_l…>Details about what it takes to organize a hackathon can be found here: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook>- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons>CHANGES FOR 2019 - We are open & encouraging to bids from anywhere, but locations outside of Europe will be given extra weight as we are also holding a hackathon at Wikimania in Sweden in 2019. - Focus areas will be defined much further in advance, however participants can work on whatever they like related to Wikimedia Tech / Development. - This hackathon will be less heavily focused on newcomer onboarding, which is much more effectively done on a smaller local level. Instead,it is meant to be a well-facilitated and organized meeting space for groups and most active volunteers in the developer community to collaborate face to face, with appropriate representation of Foundation, affiliates and volunteers to discuss the future of Wikimedia technologies in depth. We will still aim for newcomer support and onboarding for the local region where the event is held. Ideally we will announce the host for 2019 by the end of April. If multiple chapters or organizations are interested, we hope to work together to figure out the the best solution.Any organizations interested in hosting should please create a Phabricator ticket and associate it with the Developer-Relations project. Srishti and I are happy to assist in creating the ticket if needed.Examples: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162836 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162836>, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826>, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050>Include as much information as possible from: proposing a hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon>Please email me at rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> with any questions or concerns. The decision committee will comment directly on the Phabricator task if any questions come up. I am not on the chapters@ list, so if there is anything that I should respond to, make sure to keep me on CC. Also please forward this email anywhere you think it might be useful. Looking forward to hearing from you!* -- Rachel Farrand Events Program Manager Technical Collaboration Team Wikimedia Foundation

6 years, 2 months

How to get all the page titles of a category from wiktionary?

by Shrinivasan T

I was looking for a list of all Tamil nouns for long time. Found that wiktionary has a huge collection of all nouns. https://ta.wiktionary.org/s/30v this page lists 24,750 nouns and https://ta.wiktionary.org/s/4aa9 this page lists 60,553 nouns How can get all the page names using quarry service? I can not get all them using api as it has a limit of 500 for normal user and 5000 for bot user. Hope querry can be used for this. I need the list of page names in the category பெயர்ச்சொற்கள் in https://ta.wiktionary.org Please help on this. Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com

6 years, 2 months

codesearch might have returned incorrect results in the past 2ish days

by Kunal Mehta

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi, For about the past two days codesearch.wmflabs.org ran out of disk space[1] and has been not searching some repositories[2]. This has been fixed now, thanks to bd808 and others in #wikimedia-cloud for their help :) People who were looking for things they knew existed noticed and filed bugs (thanks!) but if you were looking to check if something was unused, you might want to double check your search again. [1] Specifically, it ran out of inodes, which took a few days to figure out. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188477 - -- Legoktm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJLBAEBCgA1FiEE+h6fmkHn9DUCyl1jUvyOe+23/KIFAlqY5BkXHGxlZ29rdG1A bWVtYmVyLmZzZi5vcmcACgkQUvyOe+23/KISlA//VlEp50AOWboE97+YTCoeVhiQ 3AMIYe9W36UAb7XGWJemXhlDxtnnM2+kX7Kjrd2GqBY3PuDf7vxYGD4skb3zzMyL Qdt9qWeXQK7yDdErjrRPTUBZY5J9iAxf8v/FzluLWZfVLk7+fYgQNxFl2W9IDGgg v8YMNxbhfhBAPyQ4+XXUZ1+Cm1R+e/gL0yyLnMuqxbKxqyk/52e+GXYz4PQ28doD x2NdznOSJXqpTOoTzmQvUd1hbZ0bK1ExeB8Dv9rfNy+93ZZRHNl2dmDL3CHl4+2T fF8OKcKvEydInWalBmgBZiLhjdOq3rZl0oEq+rAMuu8YEIf0ctfnOFRE2cEK4tQr YrzmRSfEQtJjZGSye5Th6O+SBq+jKQv/cD4G50S0aRfLshX13TdOR6fp6FN/8HSm NeBDkEVrf3ReWJvDkGs96fD0AumEp+6cEOKkEcv6pYaxgEXUY5VBo9XkKO3fKiCM v+3MRsUl2dVCCd80KPAEI/S1eEVB5g32JGsMKP8d8sTud7NRLuuLLMo2JCKY6P0j IyWGQGNGgwWyeA2pMSsICQ5+kWRSUpcElXKh9tnCAfKcyNDrbBIEKUai4FjiwyZd QnMzQSv+UBFEd6JUOWyWKG6rM/7Wb/MbqZpr4qgFHWV/RnYpGX7ZPMqnXllSDNH/ aPYkcCXD63pFgIbNpuo= =m+Kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

6 years, 2 months

TechCom Radar, 2018-02-28

by Kate Chapman

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's meeting: * RFC IRC Meeting: Make some aspects of Tidy's whitespace stripping behavior part of wikitext parsing "spec" <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157418> Meeting Minutes: <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.20…> * RFC IRC Meeting 2018-03-07 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET): Normalize change tag schema <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185355> * RFC Discussed and Declined as not needed at this time: RFC associated user accounts <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188197> * Actor table merged and available in Mediawiki core: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167246> * Refactor of profiler code in beta: Profiling for X-Wikimedia-Debug seems to start fairly late <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180183> * Singapore/Eqsin data center coming online * Request from Legal to collaborate on a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT). If anybody has familiarity with creating a VPAT, please reach out to Cindy Cicalese You can also find our meeting minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes> See also the TechCom RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)

6 years, 2 months

1.31.0-wmf.23 MediaWiki train rollback

by Tyler Cipriani

Hi all! Wednesday Train update: we're currently running 1.31.0-wmf.23 on group0 only, so we're a day behind schedule. I decided to rollback based on a particularly noisy notice[0]. The right folks are already aware and working on it (thanks all!). Reminder that we have a task for each train rollout to track (potential) blockers[1]. You can follow that task to track future progress. Additional reminder that you can use the "Wikimedia MediaWiki versions"[2] tool on Toolforge to know which wikis have which version at any time. Choo Choo, -- Tyler [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188555> [1]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183962> [2]. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/>

6 years, 2 months

Phabricator monthly statistics - 2018-02

by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2018-02): 345 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2018-02): 909 Task authors in (2018-02): 485 Users who have closed tasks in (2018-02): 294 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2018-02): 286 Tasks created in (2018-02): 2395 Tasks closed in (2018-02): 1950 Open and stalled tasks in total: 37760 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 5 Needs Triage: 382 High: 639 Normal: 875 Low: 1139 Lowest: 1093 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2018-02): 23 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 phab1001 at Thu Mar 1 00:00:25 UTC 2018)

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