Re: [Wikitech-l] Datacenter switchover and switchback

[MA]

Hello:

>For the duration of the switchover (1 month), deployers are kindly
>requested to refrain from large db schema changes and avoid deploying
>any kind of new feature that requires creation of tables.
>There will be a train freeze in the week of Sept 10th and Oct 8th.

Does this also mean that we should not deploy new extensions to wikis such
as Babel, Echo, ShortUrl or Translate (to mention some examples) where we
also need to create the relevant extension tables on the wiki in question
for them to work?

I guess also no new wiki creations will be allowed in that timespan?

Thanks for the clarification.

Regards.
-- 
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[Wikitech-l] Vad gör dig lycklig den här veckan? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 26 August 2018)

[Pine W]

Wikimedia Sverige recived a $65,500 grant from the Swedish National Library
in support of the Library Data project:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2018-August/012351.html

WMDE has multiple open staff positions in software development, design,
fundraising, and legal services:
https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/de/vacancies

Stanford University Libraries and the Linked Data for Production project (
http://www.ld4p.org) are hiring a Wikimedian in Residence:
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/wikimedian-in-residence-3711

The WMF Readers team published a roadmap review. There is a lot of
information in here that will be of interest to veteran contributors
regarding WMF plans. I was especially glad to see that improvements are
planned for mobile web that should benefit contributors.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadmap_Review_-_2018-08-27.pdf

Outreachy round 17 is in the pipeline:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090742.html

The WMF education team is hosting office hours this week, and plans to host
"at least 2 office hours per month":
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2018-August/002061.html

WMDE's Techncal Wishes team has made significant improvements to wikitext
diff views:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090726.html

Two new user groups were approved by the Affiliations Committee. The groups
are Wikimedians for Offline Wikis and Wikimedians of Tamazight.

WMF's Community Tech is seeking comments regarding tools for program and
event organizers:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Tools_for_program_and_event_organizers

What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language.

Pine
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[Wikitech-l] 2018-08-29 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

[Grace Gellerman]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-08-29

= *2018-08-29* =

== Callouts ==
* SRE:

Switchover/Switchback dates reminder. It's in 2 Weeks.

Services: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 14:30 UTC
Media storage/Swift: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 15:00 UTC
Traffic: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 19:00 UTC
MediaWiki: Wednesday, September 12th 2018: 14:00 UTC

Switchback:

Traffic: Wednesday, October 10th 2018 09:00 UTC
MediaWiki: Wednesday, October 10th 2018: 14:00 UTC
Services: Thursday, October 11th 2018 14:30 UTC
Media storage/Swift: Thursday, October 11th 2018 15:00 UTC

IMPORTANT: For the duration of the switchover (1 month), please refrain
from large db schema changes and please avoid deploying any kind of new
feature that requires creation of tables.
IMPORTANT: There will be a train freeze in the week of Sept 10th and Oct
8th.
* Fundraising campaigns
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar*

* From RI: help wanted with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203029 from
those who know about Dashiki

   - [nuria] Dashiki just uses the files that are now not rendering from
   meta, it is really a seprate system that consumes those files

* wp10 models in ORES API are renamed to articlequality, if you're using
this model, please change
*  Wikidata would appreciate input/decision on way forward with two patches
in MW core, related to testing (thanks to Anotine and Timo for input so far)
** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/455176/
** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/446543/

== Audiences ==

=== Contributors ===
 Community Tech 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**

 Anti-Harassment Tools 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Continue work on Partial Blocking (Goal is to have a MVP ready by the
end of the sprint)
** Analytics on Harassment cases on A/NI

 Editing 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
** Updates:
**Improving event logging for better data analysis
**Mobile bug fixes to improve editing experience

 Growth 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**

 Language 
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** Work on ContentTranslation version 2 continues.

=== Readers ===
 iOS native app 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
 Android native app 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Finished polling Echo notifications (limited to certain types of
notifications initially)
** Waiting on user testing of navigation prototypes.

 Readers Web 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**


 Readers Infrastructure 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Bernd out rest of week, no PCS updates
** Maps:
*** Working on setting up map tile invalidation on resource change (via
ChangeProp)
*** maps-test cluster to be decommissioned; production maps cluster to be
updated to Stretch
** JsonConfig bug affecting Dashiki config pages on meta.wikimedia.org,
should be fixed but isn't.  Help wanted!
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203029
***
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/JsonConfig/+/455868 fixed
the issue on zero.wikimedia.org (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203006 ),
but not for Dashiki config pages

 Parsing 
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None, coordinating with VE on several updates such as
audio/video elements
* Updates: Offsite upcoming on 9/10-9/15
Continuing porting TokenTansformers subsystem to PHP as part of overall php
port

 Multimedia 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates
** SDoC: multi-lingual captions display and edit on File page
** SDoC: prototyping depicts search almost complete
** SDoC: design artwork


 UI Standardization 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**

== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Updating privacy policy of wikistats2 and other sites like
http://analytics.wikimedia.org to the new non-wiki policy per Legal’s
request.
**  Working with performance on making eventlogging a lot more limber so it
can be included in every page:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventLogging/+/453457/
** Changed all random identifiers in mediawiki codebase to have more
entropy, from 64 to 80 bits. This benefits eventlogging but also it is used
widely on mediawiki client code.:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/454460/
** Integrating archiva (java libraries dependency management depot) with
LDAP.
**Moving all our analytics infrastructure to Debian Stretch.  Along the
way, we will be moving (superset|turnilo|yarn|hue).wikimedia.org to new VMs
and upgrading them.

=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** More testing and bug fixes on main CC processor's new API integration
** CiviCRM UI enhancements
** Donor data export/erase bug fixes
** Testing new pipeline to get banner and landing page impressions into

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to the wikitext diff view

[Pine W]

Thank you!

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:20 AM Michael Schönitzer <
michael.schoenit...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Hi Pine and others,
>
> I made another before-after-screenshot for the mobile-version with the
> "Honeyguide"-Example also used for screenshots on desktop-version:
>
>- Mobil:
>-
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImprovedDiff_-_Example_1_-_before_mobile.png
>   -
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImprovedDiff_-_Example_1_-_after_mobile.png
>- Desktop:
>-
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImprovedDiff_-_Example_1_-_before2.png
>   -
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImprovedDiff_-_Example_1_-_after2.png
>
> You can also use our test-wikis to view the changes with more and more
> complex diffs, for example:
> Desktop, before:
>   https://wmde-wikidiff2-unpatched.wmflabs.org/core/
> index.php?title=Test1=revision=34=30
> Desktop, after:
>   https://wmde-wikidiff2-patched.wmflabs.org/core/
> index.php?title=Test1=revision=34=30
> Mobil, before:
>   https://wmde-wikidiff2-unpatched.wmflabs.org/core/
> index.php/Special:MobileDiff/30...34
> Mobil, after:
>   https://wmde-wikidiff2-mobile.wmflabs.org/core/index.php/
> Special:MobileDiff/30...34
>
> Cheers,
>  M
>
> Am 24. August 2018 um 13:27 schrieb Michael Schönitzer <
> michael.schoenit...@wikimedia.de>:
>
> > Thanks a lot for all the friendly feedback!
> >
> > @Pine: Today I have a travel day, but I'll make some more screenshots on
> > Monday and ping you then.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  M
> >
> > 2018-08-24 2:43 GMT+02:00 Dennis During :
> >
> >> This will make so many monitoring tasks much easier and lead to their
> >> being
> >> done better and more frequently.  It is hard to conceive of any drawback
> >> to
> >> it.  Even there turn out to be some bugs, this is a great improvement.
> >> Thanks.
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> >
> > --
> > Michael F. Schönitzer
> >
> >
> >
> > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
> > http://wikimedia.de
> >
> > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
> > Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
> > http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
> >
> > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
> > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
> unter
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> > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Michael F. Schönitzer
>
>
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
> http://wikimedia.de
>
> Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
> Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
> http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
>
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[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Updates for failed logins and OurMine

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

Pine
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-- Forwarded message -
From: John Bennett 
Date: Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 5:56 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Updates for failed logins and OurMine
To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org 


Hello,

The Security team will be putting together a brief summary of events
for both of these incidents and plan on sharing an overview by Sept
7th.

Thanks
John Bennett

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup

[Pine W]

Hi folks,

I would like to remind you about this invitation for tomorrow.

I anticipate that there will be few people who attend, and that's okay.

Currently, I am using the free version of Zoom which allows 40 minutes for
meetings, so I will be on Zoom starting at 17:00 UTC for 40 minutes. There
will be a 20 minute break between the end of the Café meetup and the start
of the WMF activities meeting.

If you are concerned about privacy but would like to attend, it's fine to
attend with voice only. The Zoom software allows people to disable their
video.

Example subjects that might come up for discussion include:

* Affiliate activities
* Growth strategies
* Finance
* Community health
* Legal issues
* Structured data on Commons
* "Between the Brackets" podcasts
* Quality and quantity of information on Wikipedia
* Design

There's no pressure to attend if you're not interested or have something
else that is important to do during the Café time tomorrow. This is a
social invitation.

Until next time,

Pine
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite
> people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics
> and Activities Meeting.
>
> There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that you
> would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and ideas
> from other Wikimedians.
>
> I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with software
> or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone number will be
> visible to other participants.
>
> The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would
> like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can
> facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are
> multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live
> interpretation also.
>
> Here is information about how to connect:
>
> Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210
>
> Or iPhone one-tap :
> Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210#
> Or Telephone:
> Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current
> location):
> Argentina: +54 341 512 2188
> Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088  or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149
> Canada: +1 647 558 0588
> Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088
> France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188  or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048
> Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188  or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800
> Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688
> Italy: +39 069 480 6488
> Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488  or +81 524 564 439
> Mexico: +52 229 910 0061  or +52 554 161 4288
> Spain: +34 84 368 5025  or +34 91 198 0188
> Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434  or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488
> Russia: +7 495 283 9788
> United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874  or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088
> US: +1 408 638 0986  or +1 646 558 8665
> Meeting ID: 136 978 210
> International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy
>
> The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC
> / 10:00 Pacific.
>
> Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this
> ,
> so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking.
> (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating,
> then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere
> else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like
> this 
> or this
> .
> I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you
> come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.
>
> Until next time,
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
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[Wikitech-l] Datacenter switchover and switchback

[Alexandros Kosiaris]

Hello everyone,

This is to inform you that there will be a datacenter switchover and
switchback on the next few weeks. The timeline's are

Services: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 14:30 UTC
Media storage/Swift: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 15:00 UTC
Traffic: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 19:00 UTC
MediaWiki: Wednesday, September 12th 2018: 14:00 UTC

Switchback:

Traffic: Wednesday, October 10th 2018 09:00 UTC
MediaWiki: Wednesday, October 10th 2018: 14:00 UTC
Services: Thursday, October 11th 2018 14:30 UTC
Media storage/Swift: Thursday, October 11th 2018 15:00 UTC

For the duration of the switchover (1 month), deployers are kindly
requested to refrain from large db schema changes and avoid deploying
any kind of new feature that requires creation of tables.
There will be a train freeze in the week of Sept 10th and Oct 8th.

The net effect of the switchover and switchback for volunteers is
expected to be some minutes of inability to save an edit. For readers,
everything will be as usual.

The tracking task for interested parties is
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199073

Regards,

-- 
Alexandros Kosiaris 

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