Hello everyone,
I'm excited to announce that we've released OOUI v0.32.0 yesterday.
Key highlights of this release (summarizing since v0.31.0):
- DropdownInputWidgets now provide native OS menus on mobile.
- Tabs are now also available in 'frameless' flavor and mobile
behaviour has been improved.
Thanks to Ed Sanders for the work on that.
- Several highly used icons saw another size-reduction effort by Thiemo Kreuz.
Saving big in scale of our projects. Thanks Thiemo.
- SelectFileWidget has seen a dozen improvements (a.o. supports
multiple file uploads and is available in PHP)
The demos have seen both, usability and navigation improvements as
result of work focus at Hackathon. Check them out![0]
Apart from above, there are also possible breaking changes in this release:
Please carefully consider if they affect your code.
- SelectWidget: Drop depressed CSS class, which got deprecated in v0.30.4.
- Toolbar: Remove support for non-tool buttons.
- Drop `web` icon, deprecated in v0.30.4, in this release
removed completely. Use 'browser' instead.
You can find details on additional new features, code-level and accessibility
changes, styling and interaction design amendments, and all
improvements since v0.31.0 in the full changelog[1].
If you have any further queries or need help dealing with breaking
changes, please let me know.
As always, interactive demos[0] and library documentation is available
on mediawiki.org[2], there is comprehensive generated code-level
documentation and interactive demos and tutorials hosted on
doc.wikimedia.org[3].
OOUI version: 0.32.0
MediaWiki version: 1.34.0-wmf.8
Date of deployment to production: Regular train, starting Tuesday 04 June
[0] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/#widgets-mediawiki-vector-ltr
[1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md
[2] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI
[3] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/
Best,
Volker
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Senior UX Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
volker.e(a)wikimedia.org | @Volker_E
I was happy to read this announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-May/092570.html> by
Amir regarding improvements for typing in African languages on Wikimedia
projects. (I hope that the translation of the subject of this week's email
is correct.)
I thought that this
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-May/092083.html> was
an interesting WMF Tech Talk regarding WMF and W3C. I felt that it was
encouraging that WMF staff on the call wanted to support the needs and
wishes of Wikimedia readers and contributors. Thank you to WMF for
publicizing this meeting and for collaborating with W3C.
Thank you to engineering and technical staff who take initiative to respond
to problems in a timely and constructive way. Someone who comes to mind is
James Forrester, who has endured years of complaints regarding
VisualEditor. Over time WMF has polished the tool's rough edges, greatly
improved its performance, and added significant functionality. I know that
hearing a barrage of complaints can be difficult, such as happens in this video
clip <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrK7mqceBs> from *Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine* that is hosted on Youtube. (Yes, another *Star Trek* video. The
title of the episode is shown at the start of the video, which is why it
displays "Honor Among Thieves".) I appreciate James' calm demeanor,
willingness to listen, responsiveness, patience, and perseverance.
What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hi,
for HTML version, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-05-29
Thank you for feedback. As an experiment, this week's notes don't have any
empty sections. That should make them shorter and easier to read.
To make meeting notes even easier to read, is there a tool that would
convert links to wikitext?
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221177 to [[phab:T221177]]
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/ to
[[gerrit:#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/]]
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_homep…
to [[Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer homepage]]
Željko
--
= 2019-05-29 =
== Callouts ==
* SRE offsite on the week on Jun 9. Probably a code freeze
* Language still blocked on SRE:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/
== Audiences ==
=== Contributors ===
==== Community Tech ====
* Updates:
** Work on Dark Mode is delayed to ensure we are doing the right work with
the right collaboration. We are currently updating all the Tool Labs tools
we own to prepare for the Actor migration. If users or devs have issues
with these tools, let us know. The work is moving quickly but due to some
missing indices on the new tables in the replicas, our queries are much too
slow. This is causing occasional application errors for users as the
queries time out.
==== Anti-Harassment Tools ====
* Updates:
** We are near completion of the refactor of Block. There will be changes
to the ways developers use Blocks. The work is done in this task primarily:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222737. We will be sending an email to
wikitech-l with details and examples. Most of the documentation is already
updated or will be updated soon.
==== Editing ====
* Updates:
** Offsite June 3-7
** Instrumenting Mobile Edit Cards
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor_on_mobile/Edit_car…
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222999
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223651
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221855
==== Growth ====
* Updates:
** Mobile page of Newcomer Homepage
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_homep…
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220831
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219435
==== Language ====
* Blocked by:
** SRE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/
* Blocking:
** CentralNotice banner save timeouts:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224598
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Updates:
** Continuing development on v6.3 - user testing last week
*** Talk page MCS endpoint - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221148
*** Talk page native work - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215928
*** Link wizard in Editor - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213979
*** Media wizard in Editor - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209398
==== Android native app ====
* Updates:
** Released minor update last week with bug fixes / minor navigation
improvements.
** Continuing to build structured image caption editing.
==== Readers Web ====
* Updates:
** Summary: still trying to fix the browser tests, design and technical
planning for the architecture and desktop refresh projects, and continuing
ongoing development for the advanced mobile contributions and the
MobileFrontend architecture investment projects.
** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Related Articles):
*** Advanced mobile contributions
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
**** Style the history page for AMC users T219895
**** PageActions Menu should use Builder pattern and reuse existing Menu
elements T221792
**** Updates to user page treatment (apply for IP address and always show
toolbar) T220114
*** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro…
**** BetaOptInPanel should use ES6 classes NOT mfExtend T220847
*** Browser tests
**** Minerva Node.js browser tests failing and not running against commits
T223676
*** Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T221624
** Desktop website (Popups)
*** Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
**** WMDE reference previews review and support
** Planning
*** Design and MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture and
desktop refresh planning for next fiscal year
==== Readers Infrastructure ====
* Updates:
** Work continues on PCS abstraction layer. Will remain in pagelib but have
its own webpack output (*-pcs).
** CirrusSearch suggestion generation for suggested edits is rolling out
this week
** Patch for passing Accept-Language header for all MW API requests
(language variant support in MCS/PCS)
** Planning for next FY projects ongoing.
==== Multimedia ====
* Updates:
** releasing qualifiers for depicts statements next week
** other statements release in June
==== Parsing ====
* Blocked by:
** Can RelEng team take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221872
? We seem to be babysitting merges a lot more than we would like to because
of having to "recheck" patches frequently.
* Updates:
** HTML -> WT is now under testing.
** WT -> HTML: Last of the core infrastructure components are now being
merged. This unblocks the porting of the remaining extensions and token
handlers.
==== UI Standardization ====
* Updates:
** OOUI v0.32.0 release with a few possible breaking changes y'day
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md
*** SelectWidget: Drop depressed class, deprecated since 0.30.4
*** Toolbar: Remove support for non-tool buttons. Additionally features and
improvements:
*** Implement frameless mode for TabSelectWidget
*** DropdownInputWidget: Use native `select` when `isMobile` is true
*** DropdownWidget: Better ARIA roles and attributes approach used
*** The demos got an overhaul, check it at
https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/#widgets-mediawiki-vector-ltr
== Technology ==
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
** Release Engineering: Need to update CiviCRM tests to PHP7:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223348
* Updates:
** CentralNotice banner save timeouts: need language / MW core coders help
witih this one: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224598
** Meeting with Thiemo about perf team contributions to CentralNotice
** Starting work on an 'upgrade to recurring' dialog box
** Planning tasks for accepting donations in India
** Bug fixes and improvement to third party bulk emailer integration
** CiviCRM dedupe workflow improvements
=== Core Platform ===
* Blocking:
** Fundraising Tech: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224598
** Release Engineering (low priority):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of
CodeReview.
* Updates:
** Session storage, discussion of TTLs
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222907
** RESTBase storage updated and deployed
** RESTBase blubber config
** RESTBagOStuff merged to master
** REST-in-MediaWiki parameter validation discussion
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223239
** Spec'ing and advancing phester for REST testing
=== Performance ===
* Updates:
** Performance team offsite next week (week 23)
** Increased FPS to 30 for the video on WebPageTest to catch smaller
regression (no impact on metrics)
=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** Core Platform Team (low priority):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of
CodeReview.
** SRE Traffic Team (low priority):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of
Wikipedia Zero.
* Blocking:
** Parsing - Can RelEng team take a look at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221872 ? We seem to be babysitting
merges a lot more than we would like to because of having to "recheck"
patches frequently.
** Fundraising Tech - Need to update Fundraising Tech CiviCRM tests to
PHP7: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223348
* Updates:
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.6 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220731
*** This week: 1.34.0-wmf.7 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220732
**** No problemo 🎉
*** Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.8 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220733
=== Search Platform ===
* Updates:
** Hackathon & Search Platform offsite for most of the team
** Support of Eastern Arabic numerals for search now implemented:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117217
*** Some updates may take some time to be indexed properly on wiki
** Refactored fallback methods for search:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221621
** Fixed ES nodes overloading: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220901
** Made cloudelastic reachable from wmf cloud:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223519
** Improvement for Special:Search completion on Wikidata to display
description checked in, enabling after train deployment:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55652
** Fixed WDQS bug with nested label service clause:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153353
** Fixed LDF server bug with JSON-LD:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222471
** Fixed URL Shortener widget in WDQS being hard to work with:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221127
** Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625
** Working on creating RDF export for SDC/MediaInfo:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221917
** Working on supporting ChronologyProtector in WDQS Updater:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212550
=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocking:
** Language still blocked on
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/
** CPT on sessionstore deployment. Moving forward with it
** Wikidata on termbox deployment. Moving forward with it.
** Release Engineering - Traffic Team (low priority):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of
Wikipedia Zero.
* Updates:
** ATS deployment ongoing
** SRE offsite on the week on Jun 9.
== TechComm ==
* Updates:
** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221177 Route Handler Interface: his
RFC is about defining the extension interface for the new REST router
component for MediaWiki core. (IRC Meeting in #wikimedia-office to discuss
this on Wednesday May 29 at 21:00 UTC/23:00 CEST/14:00 PDT)
== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
** short meeting notes 📝
*** teams that don't have any updates will be removed 💣
*** please keep your team's notes as short as possible, without missing
anything important 😉
** please use wikitext sytax ❤️
*** don't use etherpad lists 📜
*** don't use leading whitespace (etherpad inserts it by default) 🙄
** to make meeting notes easier to read, is there a tool that would convert
Phabricator/Gerrit/MediaWiki links to wikitext?
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221177 to [[phab:T221177]]
*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/ to
[[gerrit:#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/]]
***
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_homep…
to [[Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer homepage]]
Hey,
You probably know about the tag, it has been added automatically to
phabricator tickets when someone makes a patch to gerrit and mentions the
pabricator ticket (For example [0]). The problem is when the patch gets
merged the tag doesn't get removed automatically because there might be
other outstanding patches, etc.
Now, lots of time of our developers is being spent on removing those tags
when they don't apply which is tedious and with lots of tasks incorrectly
having the tag, the tag itself is useless. So I wrote a bot to clean those
tags.
In order to make sure I don't remove anything by mistake, the bot doesn't
touch the ticket if any of these conditions apply:
* If the tag is added by someone else than the gerrit bot
* If there's a link to github.com anywhere
* If there are still patches that are not merged (ta-duh)
* If gerritbot in any way acts out of ordinary (for example, comments twice
for adding one patch)
It's going to spam your inbox. Sorry :( I'm working on it to find a less
spammy way and will definitely run it with slow pace.
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155878#5190647
--
Amir (he/him)
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
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.
Respected Sir/Ma'am
I would like to contribute to your community as I believe I have the
required skill set to contribute and hence would like to be a part of your
community.
Please do let me know about your GitHub profile or any version control
where your code is available and I can start understanding the code and
then start contributing.
I have a past experience with GirlScript Summer of code 2019 and have
contributed to Open Genus IQ
https://iq.opengenus.org/author/harshita/
My GitHub profile : https://github.com/HarshitaSahai
Hoping for a positive response.
Thank You.
Harshita Sahai
Hi Everyone,
It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019 Episode 4! This month's talk will
take place *May 23, 2019 at 3:00 PM UTC*.
*Topic:* Wikimedia and the W3C
*Speaker:* Evan Prodromou, Product Manager and Gilles Dubuc, Senior
Software Engineer
*Summary: *
The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the W3C, as of April. We will
walk you through how you can join working groups, what to expect of W3C
participation, what we hope Wikimedia staff can achieve through W3C and we
will share our own experiences as W3C members.
*YouTube stream for viewers:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pZrLwC5to4
During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office
You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
As always, feel free to reach out to me with any questions!
Kind regards,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hello,
When promoting group1 to MediaWiki 1.34.0-wmf.6, cawikinews has been
unreachable for roughly half an hour.
The reason is that very early in the process of loading the wiki, a PHP
fatal error occurred. I thus roll backed cawikinews to 1.34.0-wmf.5
which fixed it:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224116
Then eventually other wikis have been found to be missing localisation
strings indicating FlaggedRevs has other issues:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224124
I am thus rolling back group1 to 1.34.0-wmf.5 until FlaggedRevs is fixed.
The root cause is the conversion of MediaWiki extension FlaggedRevs to
the extension registry system. Apparently some settings are loaded later
than they used to and cause a Fatal when trying to interact with an
unset variable.
The task is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224116 If you are
familiar with operations/mediawiki-config load order and extension
registry loading, your help will be more than appreciated.
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso