Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue on Redis initial test deploy today
On 16/04/13 12:02, MZMcBride wrote: Greg Grossmeier wrote: quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2013-04-10 time=12:49:25 -0700 If all goes well with the testing, we should be able to switch over fully by this coming Monday. All went well, we're now fully on Redis. You can rejoice now. Hi Greg. I looked at your original e-mail and this e-mail, but I'm still not sure what Redis is or how it relates to the MediaWiki job queue. Redis http://redis.io/ is an in-memory key/value store, a bit like memcached except with more features. We've been using it as a memcached replacement for session storage since the eqiad switchover in January, because it has a replication feature which can be used to synchronise data between the two data centres. It allowed us to switch from Tampa to Ashburn without logging everyone out. It's designed more as a persistent store than a cache. Memcached still wins for simple unreliable object caching, so we're still using memcached for that. We previously stored the MW job queue in MySQL. This gave us lots of useful features, like replication and indexing for duplicate removal, but it has often been hard to manage the performance implications of the high insert rate. Among its many features, Redis embeds a Lua interpreter on the server side. The new Redis job queue class provides a rich feature set superior to the MySQL job queue, primarily by the use of several server-side Lua scripts which provide high-level job queue functions. -- Tim Starling ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue on Redis initial test deploy today
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: We've been using it as a memcached replacement for session storage since the eqiad switchover in January, because it has a replication feature which can be used to synchronise data between the two data centres. It allowed us to switch from Tampa to Ashburn without logging everyone out. It's designed more as a persistent store than a cache. Memcached still wins for simple unreliable object caching, so we're still using memcached for that. We previously stored the MW job queue in MySQL. This gave us lots of useful features, like replication and indexing for duplicate removal, but it has often been hard to manage the performance implications of the high insert rate. Among its many features, Redis embeds a Lua interpreter on the server side. The new Redis job queue class provides a rich feature set superior to the MySQL job queue, primarily by the use of several server-side Lua scripts which provide high-level job queue functions. I've taken the liberty of adapting this explanation and my own additions for the Redis page on MediaWiki.org Steven ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Advice for an interlang anotation extension tool?
Hello, This night as was thinking about some tools which may be useful to help me improve some wikipedia article. Lately I began to participate in a discussion aiming to improve the french philosophie article plan[1]. So to achieve our goal, I began to look at how other chapters use it, to establish a differential overview, and hopefuly produce a better plan than what the current french article provide. In this project, I've been helped by the fact that interlang links come with a star when the article was elected featured article. Of course I don't speak all this languages, but translation software are often enough for my purpose of comparating tables of content. Now I think that would be intereting to have: * an opt-in feature to display more information along interlang links, like size (in octet or number of symbols), view count, edit count, etc. * a tool which gather article plans of (selected) interlang relative articles, auto-translate them to a target language and display the result. You may look at [2] to get an idea of what the result of such a tool may look like (but design brain storm is welcome), although I didn't performed translations yet. So I post here so I may have some critical feedback, and hint on which way would probably make more sense to implement this tools. As I see it, I have now three (non-exclusive) way to develop something which integrate in the mediawiki ecosystem: php extension, javascript gadget, lua template. Thank you in advance for your comments. [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophie Which is about philosophy, you wouldn't have guess, would you? [2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion:Philosophie#Plans_utilis.C3.A9s_sur_les_autres_chapitres -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Advice for an interlang anotation extension tool?
On 16/04/13 10:12, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: This night as was thinking about some tools which may be useful to help me improve some wikipedia article. Lately I began to participate in a discussion aiming to improve the french philosophie article plan[1]. So to achieve our goal, I began to look at how other chapters use it, to establish a differential overview, and hopefuly produce a better plan than what the current french article provide. In this project, I've been helped by the fact that interlang links come with a star when the article was elected featured article. Of course I don't speak all this languages, but translation software are often enough for my purpose of comparating tables of content. I was thinking about this too. It would be useful not only to editors but to multilingual readers as well, since they could decide which version of the article they want to read. Now I think that would be intereting to have: * an opt-in feature to display more information along interlang links, like size (in octet or number of symbols), view count, edit count, etc. It should be possible to make a tool that does this on the Toolserver. I don't think it could be done so that this information is displayed for every article since it would be very slow. Maybe in future information about article size, view count etc. could be on Wikidata, that should allow for faster tools. Article size should be adjusted for differences between languages, and I am not sure how to do that. It should probably be good enough to compare the sizes of a freshly-translated large article on two Wikipedias and use that for approximation of all articles, but I don't think anyone has done that and made a list of compared sizes. View/edit count could be obtained from stats.grok.se and would probably only be relevant in relation to overal view/edit count of the Wikipedia. * a tool which gather article plans of (selected) interlang relative articles, auto-translate them to a target language and display the result. I even made something like this: http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8/InterlanguageTranslate.js It displayed a link to Google Translate next to every interlanguage link, so you could easily see translated articles. Apparently it no longer works, but I guess someone could adjust it to the new JS framework. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Starter kit ?
Le 2013-04-15 20:09, Quim Gil a écrit : Hello Mathieu, welcome! These days we are getting many new potential contributors thanks to Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women. We want to know what can we do better for you! Well, I'm not a student nor a woman, but I appreciate all the feedback which is given to me on this thread. So thank you to all of you. For now it looks like to me that I will have to just sit down and read as it seems there a lot of documentation I should be accustomed to. At some point I'll reach the page which is talking about getting into action, closing a bug or something like that. Sorry I missed the bug triage yesterday. On 04/13/2013 07:45 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute are two good places to begin. Thank you, it seems to be exactly what I need. :) This is very good to hear! Still, we welcome improvements to this Starter kit (well put). Just recently we have started a selection of essential resources for new contributors, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:New_contributors And we are discussing many other ideas at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors Ok, I'll add that to my TO READ list ;) -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Starter kit ?
Hi, On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:28 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: Sorry I missed the bug triage yesterday. We have bugdays every other week if you're interested: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Starter kit ?
Le 2013-04-16 11:42, Andre Klapper a écrit : Hi, On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:28 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: Sorry I missed the bug triage yesterday. We have bugdays every other week if you're interested: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage andre I'll try to participate to the next event if it match with my schedule. -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Survey: best times for volunteering
Is this for these specific dates or in general? DeltaQuad English Wikipedia Administrator and Checkuser On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, please find 5 minutes for this survey: http://www.doodle.com/**minqnd6ngz9npfdvhttp://www.doodle.com/minqnd6ngz9npfdv In an *average* week, when are you more available to volunteer a couple of hours? Multiple choices are good. No registration required. VERY IMPORTANT: select your timezone! Deadline: end of Sunday, May 21. We want to organize activities for technical volunteers at the times that suit you best. But we have contributors with different habits in different parts of the World. This survey will help us covering better everybody's preferences. Thank you! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil __**_ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Survey: best times for volunteering
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:49 PM, DeltaQuad Wikipedia deltaquadw...@gmail.com wrote: Is this for these specific dates or in general? The doodle itself says: In an *average* week, when are you more available to volunteer a couple of hours? Multiple choices are good. Examples of activities: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar VERY IMPORTANT: select your timezone! -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] GSoC and OPW Participation
Hi, I am Jiabao Wu, 1st year postgraduate student in Australian National University. At the end of last year, I graduated in B.IT in ANU with double major of Software Development and IT in New Media Arts. I am currently studying a course of free and opensource software development. This has boosted my passion to contribute to the FOSS community. I am going to apply GSoC and OPW. In the mean time, I would like to contribute to MediaWiki. I have finished landing instructions and installed mediawiki-vagrant. Could you give me some suggestions what I shall do next? For GSoC and OPW, I am interested in the following project ideas. - VisualEditor plugins - Proofread Page extension needs to be refactored - Prototyping inline comments - Bugzilla-MediaWiki extension - Allowing 3rd party wiki editors to run more CSS features They all look fun and within my ability to me. But not sure which one shall I actually pick... May I pick more than one when I apply? Any suggestions in picking the projects? Thanks a lot for reading. Cheers, Jiabao ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Project proposal for GSOC 2013
Hi, I am Gaurav Chawla (again :P). I will be applying for this year's GSOC. I have drafted a project proposal on my user page - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Grv99. The project aims to develop jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46647) I request you to go through it and give your feedbacks and/or suggestions for addition of more features, or any amendments required. Hoping for a good response. Thankyou. PS: If you are thinking about my previous proposal (Wikicards - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Grv99/Wikicards), I have dropped it as an application to this year's GSOC. But, I am glad to inform you, that I had already started working on it (with some less functionality), and its a work in progress. I will soon be uploading the source on github (blame classwork project submissions for the delays :P) and will provide the link to it here on wikitech-l. Also, I would like to work with wikidata team, if possible, for the same after the GSOC. Thanks for the feedback, you gave for wikicards. It helped me a lot. Regards Gaurav ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: 9996 open issues, from which 473 are Lowest (4.73%) From those 5476 bugs, from which 167 are Lowest (3.04%) 4520 enhancement requests, from which 306 are Lowest (6.76%) Hi Andre and Quim, could you add those numbers to the script that generates the weekly report? (I assume that it is generated by a script.) Željko ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] GLAM Wiki Toolset code review
Hi all, the GLAM Wiki Toolset-code is ready for its initial review. It can be found at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59405/ Please help us by taking a look at it. Cheers, Geer Oskam Europeana ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
Could someone with authority please process the 8 days long backlog at Labs Shell Access Requests?: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BCategory:Shell-20Access-20Requests-5D-5D-5B-5BIs-20Completed::false-5D-5D/-3FShell-20Justification/-3FModification-20date 39 requests pending. Thanks, Roger ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
Roger -- I just caught up on these. Sorry for the delay. -Andrew On 4/16/13 12:20 PM, rogerchris...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone with authority please process the 8 days long backlog at Labs Shell Access Requests?: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BCategory:Shell-20Access-20Requests-5D-5D-5B-5BIs-20Completed::false-5D-5D/-3FShell-20Justification/-3FModification-20date 39 requests pending. Thanks, Roger ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Fwd: MobileFrontend Autodetection on Third party wikis
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:53 PM Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: MobileFrontend bug 45622 To: mobile-l mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org I just received this mail from a user: ...I upgraded to Mediawiki 1.20 on me dev machine, and things seem to work fine. However using MF for MW 1.20 has no auto-detect, so it's not very useful to me :) Is there any chance you fix this on the master version as well (which has built it auto-detect)? It seems various other people are being confused with how mobile detection works [1], myself included so I have setup this basic stub of a page [2] to hopefully document this. Please share your knowledge here! [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension_talk:MobileFrontendoffset=20130416091705lqt_mustshow=26314#Howto_switch_to_mobile_Version_26314 [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/Configuring_Browser_Auto-Detection On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: Eek. I'm afraid getting this to work on an older MediaWiki/MobileFrontend extension is extremely problematic. So much has changed both in core and the MobileFrontend extension to this Are you sure migrating your wiki will be as problematic as you suspect? Best wishes and sorry to the be the bearer of bad news!! Jon On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:50 AM, ויקיפועל wikip...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, thank you for fixing this bug I opened. I appreciate it. However I'm using MW 1.18 and an older version of MobileFrontend without skins. I know it's a lot to ask for, but perhaps you'd be willing to see if such a small fix can also be applied for older versions of the extension? Migrating my entire wiki to 1.20 just for this is problematic Thank you https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend.git;a=commitdiff;h=fc5e90b7476801fe0d2b24bd67b1f135b5603a72 ___ Mobile-l mailing list mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:20 AM, rogerchris...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone with authority please process the 8 days long backlog at Labs Shell Access Requests?: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BCategory:Shell-20Access-20Requests-5D-5D-5B-5BIs-20Completed::false-5D-5D/-3FShell-20Justification/-3FModification-20date 39 requests pending. We have a lot of these coming in as of late (which is awesome!), so we're not doing a great job keeping up. Anyone want to help out with this process? We can give this specific right out to anyone willing to help. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC and OPW Participation
Hello Jiabao, On 04/16/2013 05:52 AM, Jiabao Wu wrote: I am currently studying a course of free and opensource software development. This has boosted my passion to contribute to the FOSS community. Then you landed at the right place. Welcome! I am going to apply GSoC and OPW. In the mean time, I would like to contribute to MediaWiki. I have finished landing instructions and installed mediawiki-vagrant. Could you give me some suggestions what I shall do next? I would focus on preparing a good GSoC/OPW project proposal supported by a mentor. If you have some time left then you can start exercising trying to fix annoying little bugs in the area of your project proposal: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs For GSoC and OPW, I am interested in the following project ideas. - VisualEditor plugins - Proofread Page extension needs to be refactored - Prototyping inline comments - Bugzilla-MediaWiki extension - Allowing 3rd party wiki editors to run more CSS features All these are featured projects so you can't go wrong with any of them. They all look fun and within my ability to me. But not sure which one shall I actually pick... May I pick more than one when I apply? Any suggestions in picking the projects? It is your choice. Maybe the mentors of these projects can help you deciding? As far as I'm aware, so far nobody has presented proposals about any of these areas. Note that VisualEditor plugins still requires that you choose a specific plugin you would work on. Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We have a lot of these coming in as of late (which is awesome!), so we're not doing a great job keeping up. Anyone want to help out with this process? We can give this specific right out to anyone willing to help. I'll be happy to help! -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
Same here ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We have a lot of these coming in as of late (which is awesome!), so we're not doing a great job keeping up. Anyone want to help out with this process? We can give this specific right out to anyone willing to help. I'll be happy to help! -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
On 16 April 2013 19:45, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We have a lot of these coming in as of late (which is awesome!), so we're not doing a great job keeping up. Anyone want to help out with this process? We can give this specific right out to anyone willing to help. Do we actually review the individual requests to look for anything in particular, or just grant access for all who request it? -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Moodle Wikiversity - new Moodle plugin interfaces with MediaWiki
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Newsletter/April_2013/Wikiversity_and_Moodle Moodle is a free and open source learning management system (LMS). James Neill has made some valuable contributions about how Moodle can be used in conjunction with Wikiversity as a platform for open education. To minimise the need for exporting/importing content from one learning management system (LMS) class site to another and then to another institution Wikiversity may be used as an open educational content repository. A moodle-plugin has been developed by Jan Luca (German Wikiversity) to include content into Moodle hosted on Wikiversity by using a simple tag: [Include-WV]URL[/Include-WV]. The plug-in can be tested on http://sandbox.wikiversity.wmflabs.org/moodle. For further information contact Jan Luca or Wvk. This move is part of an initiative to restart German Wikiversity that seeks to invite new contributors to the project. Thanks for working on this, Jan Luca and Wyk! I see the code is at https://github.com/JanLuca/Moodle_Wikiversity_plugin . Are you looking for help of any sort -- design, testing, localisation, etc.? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
What exactly is Labs Shell Access? Come to think of it, I really don't have much of an idea of what Labs is in the first place. I assumed it was some sort of testing environment, but I've never actually been on it. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.comwrote: On 16 April 2013 19:45, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We have a lot of these coming in as of late (which is awesome!), so we're not doing a great job keeping up. Anyone want to help out with this process? We can give this specific right out to anyone willing to help. Do we actually review the individual requests to look for anything in particular, or just grant access for all who request it? -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 April 2013 19:45, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We have a lot of these coming in as of late (which is awesome!), so we're not doing a great job keeping up. Anyone want to help out with this process? We can give this specific right out to anyone willing to help. Do we actually review the individual requests to look for anything in particular, or just grant access for all who request it? The default is to just give access. This is a mechanism to be able to remove shell from trolls and to avoid trolls just creating new accounts to bypass a block. If we have an issue with a troll, we'll let the shell admins know and we'll take action. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: What exactly is Labs Shell Access? Come to think of it, I really don't have much of an idea of what Labs is in the first place. I assumed it was some sort of testing environment, but I've never actually been on it. Labs is a virtualized environment that's meant for test, development and semi-production uses such as bots or tools. Shell access gives you the ability to ssh into instances (specifically the bastion). Without shell, it's impossible to ssh into any instances. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC and OPW Participation
On 04/16/2013 02:47 PM, Quim Gil wrote: It is your choice. Maybe the mentors of these projects can help you deciding? As far as I'm aware, so far nobody has presented proposals about any of these areas. Note that VisualEditor plugins still requires that you choose a specific plugin you would work on. Richa Jain has an in-progress proposal for Prototyping inline comments (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rjain/Gsoc-Prototyping-inline-comments). I have offered to mentor this project. Matt Flaschen ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] Announcing Pending Departure
Forwarding my earlier message to wikitech-l. Best, CT -- Forwarded message -- From: Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:44 AM Subject: [Wmfall] Announcing Pending Departure To: Staff (All) wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org All, It is never a good time or easy to leave the job you love. With regrets, it saddens me to announce that I'll be leaving the Foundation in about 3 months. The exact timing of my departure will depend on finding my replacement and the transition over to my successor. In my two and half years with the Foundation, we saw the growing and maturing of the TechOps department, resulting in significant improvement in both the technical infrastructure and service processes. The entire technology stack has been refreshed reducing much of our technical debt and we built and migrated to a new and better designed datacenter. In addition, the site performance and stability are ever best. I am so proud to be working with the highly capable and talented TechOps and the engineering teams . * * My future plans are still in the works. I might restart my previous not-for-profit education startup (teaching technology to kids) or seek another exciting adventure that is fulfilling. I do, however, know that I want to spend more time with my aging parents now and, of course, with my immediate family. I like to thank all of you for making my experience here so memorable, especially to my team who have been extremely wonderful to work with. Thank you so much! CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
On 04/16/2013 06:17 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: What exactly is Labs Shell Access? Come to think of it, I really don't have much of an idea of what Labs is in the first place. I assumed it was some sort of testing environment, but I've never actually been on it. Labs is a virtualized environment that's meant for test, development and semi-production uses such as bots or tools. Shell access gives you the ability to ssh into instances (specifically the bastion). Without shell, it's impossible to ssh into any instances. - Ryan https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs has more. Come join us! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue on Redis initial test deploy today
Steven Walling wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: We've been using it as a memcached replacement for session storage since the eqiad switchover in January, because it has a replication feature which can be used to synchronise data between the two data centres. It allowed us to switch from Tampa to Ashburn without logging everyone out. It's designed more as a persistent store than a cache. Memcached still wins for simple unreliable object caching, so we're still using memcached for that. We previously stored the MW job queue in MySQL. This gave us lots of useful features, like replication and indexing for duplicate removal, but it has often been hard to manage the performance implications of the high insert rate. Among its many features, Redis embeds a Lua interpreter on the server side. The new Redis job queue class provides a rich feature set superior to the MySQL job queue, primarily by the use of several server-side Lua scripts which provide high-level job queue functions. I've taken the liberty of adapting this explanation and my own additions for the Redis page on MediaWiki.org Thank you both. :-) I'll try to help out with that MediaWiki.org page as well (and perhaps add some pointers from Wikitech... two wikis blergh). I had no idea about Redis being used for user sessions. That's neat. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Article on API Characteristics
Found this interesting articles on designing an API for what it's worth. Thought some people my find it interesting. http://mathieu.fenniak.net/the-api-checklist/ *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending
Oh, interesting. I guess I'll look more into it and sign up. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 04/16/2013 06:17 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: What exactly is Labs Shell Access? Come to think of it, I really don't have much of an idea of what Labs is in the first place. I assumed it was some sort of testing environment, but I've never actually been on it. Labs is a virtualized environment that's meant for test, development and semi-production uses such as bots or tools. Shell access gives you the ability to ssh into instances (specifically the bastion). Without shell, it's impossible to ssh into any instances. - Ryan https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs has more. Come join us! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Article on API Characteristics
Thanks Tyler, some points are very interesting. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Found this interesting articles on designing an API for what it's worth. Thought some people my find it interesting. http://mathieu.fenniak.net/the-api-checklist/ *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
