Re: [Wikitech-l] Patents on MediaWiki search and WMF v. WordLogic

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

Hi Federico,


On 18 March 2020 17:47:23 GMT+05:30, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" 
 wrote:
>
>The case is doing the rounds and I've not seen it on CourtListener 
>(don't all WMF lawyers use RECAP? :-) ), so I've uploaded the WMF 
>complaint to
>
>

Thanks a lot for sharing this. The complaint was a rather interesting one.

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[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-03-18

[Alexandra Paskulin]

Hi all,

Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting:

* Approved: RFC Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for
use with MediaWiki 

* Discussed: RFC The Great Namespaceization and Reorg


* No public discussion scheduled for next week.

You can also find our meeting minutes at


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- Alex

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[Wikitech-l] Scrum of scrums/2020-03-18

[Željko Filipin]

Hi,

for HTML version see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-03-18

This was the last in-person Scrum of scrums meeting. Going forward we will
just update the etherpad.

Željko

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= 2020-03-18 =

== Callouts ==
* Release Engineering
** Deployments/Covid-19 [[wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19]]
** [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has
any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done:
[[phab:tag/MW-1.35-release]]
* Structured Data needs review from Security on proposed new data dump for
MachineVision: [[phab:T236431#5900726]]

== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
** This was the last in-person SoS meeting. Going forward we will just
update the etherpad.

== Product ==

=== Editing ===
* Updates:
** No Updates, we are shifting or focus but hoping to turn on Replying 1.0
on Beta

=== iOS native app ===
* Updates:
** Wrapping up development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration)...Beta
soon[[phab:project/view/4273]]

=== Android native app ===
* Updates:
** Release of mobile_html ready for Beta, pending final testing.
** Release of Suggested Edits v4 (image tagging) pending user testing /
polishing updates.

=== Web ===
* Updates:
** Working on Logo and Header for Desktop Refresh

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
** Security on review of proposed new data dump: [[phab:T236431#5900726]]
* Updates:
** will miss the meeting because of a clash - back next week
** units for quantities, improved geo-coordinates, date, and monolingual
text input types all live
** constraints violations code merged should be live when train rolls
** some CAT improvements on the way

== Technology ==

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Updates:
** Deployed NL bank transfer capability for backup processor, working on
making it possible to accept recurring bank donations there
** Investigating new ways to manage PayPal recurring donations
** Testing migrating recurring donations from main card processor's old API
integration to their new integration
** Getting started making an autocomplete dropdown of employers offering
matching gifts

=== Core Platform ===
* Blocking:
** Wikimedia DE/Wikidata:  would appreciate someone advising on
[[phab:T225814]].
** Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes
[[phab:T224425]]
* Updates:
** Continued work on jobrunner, changeprops
** Core REST API next version coming soon
** API Gateway
** Developer Portal prototype
[[Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/API_Gateway/Documentation_Plan]]
** Process of adopting or co-parenting CentralNotice

=== Engineering Productivity ===

 Release Engineering 
* Blocking:
** Wikimedia DE/Wikidata: would appreciate someone chiming in on
[[phab:T245826]]
* Updates:
** [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has
any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done:
[[phab:tag/MW-1.35-release]]
** Train Health
*** This week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - [[phab:T233872]]
*** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - [[phab:T233873]]

=== Scoring Platform ===
* Updates:
** Pile of volunteers: chtnnh, haksoat, clemons, nikhil, (+2 more on the
way to IRC/phab)
** Jade
*** Did first round of user-testing on Beta.
*** We got the Jade Diff view to work.
https://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Jade:Diff/4
 Considered native OOUI element for Diff.  Needs PHP.  Crusty.
 Struggling to get date format strings to the client side
** Released revscoring 2.6.9 which includes section-based features (e.g.
text complexity measures)
** Implemented improved feature extraction for idioms and images (re.
articlequality)

=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
** Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes
[[phab:T224425]]
* Updates:
** Copy English Wikipedia drafttopic scores to other wikis somewhere in the
CirrusSearch pipeline [[phab:T241015]]
** Once the ORES articletopic - ElasticSearch pipeline is set up, update
data about all articles [[phab:T243357]]

=== Security ===
* Blocking:
** Structured Data: review of proposed new data dump:
[[phab:T236431#5900726]]

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocking:
** Product Infrastructure on creations of k8s namespaces/tokens for proton,
mobileapps. Working on it
** Research  on creation of k8s namespaces/tokens for recommendation-api.
Working on it.

== Wikimedia DE ==

=== Wikidata ===
* Blocked by:
** Release Engineering: We would appreciate someone chiming in on
[[phab:T245826]]
** Not sure who - Core Platform: We would appreciate someone advising on
[[phab:T225814]].
* Updates:
** wb_terms table (the old term store) is not being read or updated
anymore. [[phab:T208425]]
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[Wikitech-l] Patents on MediaWiki search and WMF v. WordLogic

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

WMF and IA are suing a patent troll which claims to hold a patent 
relevant for MediaWiki search autocomplete:

https://www.infodocket.com/2020/03/13/report-wikimedia-internet-archive-want-patent-infringement-claims-kicked-out/

The case is doing the rounds and I've not seen it on CourtListener 
(don't all WMF lawyers use RECAP? :-) ), so I've uploaded the WMF 
complaint to



Federico

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] [Train] 1.35.0-wmf.23 and wmf.24 status update (both blocked)

[Antoine Musso]

On 17/03/2020 20:14, Brennen Bearnes wrote:
> The 1.35.0-wmf.23 version of MediaWiki is still blocked[0].
> 
> Neither this version nor the subsequent 1.35.0-wmf.24 can proceed until
> this issue is resolved:
> 
> * T247562: Warning: Memcached::setMulti(): failed to set key
> global:segment:...
> - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247562
> 
> Thanks to the many folks who have contributed debugging on T247562 so
> far.  If anyone else has any insight, further input would be certainly
> be appreciated.
> 
> -- Your erratic train enabler
> 
> [0]. 

Hello,

Eventually we have found the root cause of the issue. The local cache
was being invalidated when different wikis tried to use it which caused
MediaWiki processes to fetch a large key from the same memcached server
and overloading it.

The hotfix is deployed. I will push 1.35.0-wmf.23 to all wikis this
afternoon at or slightly after 13:00 UTC.


-- 
Antoine "hashar" Musso

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