[Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2021-03

[aklapper]

Hi Community Metrics team,

This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.

Accounts created in (2021-03): 514
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2021-03): 1247
Task authors in (2021-03): 585
Users who have closed tasks in (2021-03): 315

Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2021-03): 312

Tasks created in (2021-03): 3011
Tasks closed in (2021-03): 2701
Open and stalled tasks in total: 47404
* Only open tasks in total: 46510
* Only stalled tasks in total: 894

Median age in days of open tasks by priority:

Unbreak now: 7
Needs Triage: 628
High: 1001
Normal: 1374
Low: 1986
Lowest: 2059

(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)

Active Differential users (any activity) in (2021-03): 6

To see the names of the most active task authors:
* Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/
* Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar
* Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs
* See the author names in the "Submitters" panel

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 01 Apr 2021 12:00:17 AM UTC)

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[Wikitech-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

[Amir Sarabadani]

Hello,
After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and months
of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has been
officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of
https://mediawiki.org.

The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years ago.
This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing
diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.

However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had
several problems, including but not limited to:

   - It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
   - Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
   - Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
   adaptations

Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract form
following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid above
(and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js, React,
Apache Kafka and many more.

You can find the discussion of changing the logo in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020
. As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and
theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.

The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: each
petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an explicit
core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they are part
of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution never
stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each project,
the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone else to
grow.

The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice
abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can
adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on
docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo
guideline for MediaWiki now:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines

We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed related patches on
master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the new logo.
You can follow the work of rolling it out in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.

I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on the
main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the logos
in this category on Commons. The files are already protected against upload
vandalism. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020)

A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From designers,
community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively for
months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for transferring
the rights, clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many many more
people.

Best
-- 
Amir (he/him)
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[Wikitech-l] 2021-03-31 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

[Grace Gellerman]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-03-31

= 2021-03-31 =

== Callouts ==
* RelEng: 1.36.0-wmf.37 blockers:
** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278376 Constructing RevisionRecord
for a page that can't exist]
** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278904 new edits are being marked as
quality instead of "accepted"]
* RelEng: Dev satisfaction survey closes TODAY!!

== Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback ==
*
=== No updates ===
Language, Library,
=== '''No notes provided''' ===
Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Inuka, Cloud Services, FR Tech,
Platform, Quality & Test, Search PF, Security,

== Product ==

=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** We'll be announcing today the end of our work on WS-Export and
officially marking the wish/project as completed

=== Anti-Harassment Tools ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Wrapping up known work on SecurePoll. May have further things to do here
which will take priority over other tasks.
** New Engineering Manager joined, completing the team. Hurrah!

=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
** Continuing to work on on-wiki configuration
** Continuing design of mentor dashboard
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Mentor_dashboard

=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates: Putting finishing touches on next major release of app
(including drastically better support for Chinese language variants),
should be in beta within the week.

=== Android native app ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous: PET for all their collaboration.
* Updates: Working w/ PET on image recommendation API.

=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** Timo Tijhof for his work on the (currently Vector-specific) "pref diff"
instrument: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261842
* Updates:
** Onboarding new hires!
** Virtual offsite 29th March through 1st April
** The WVUI search treatment A/B test is complete. All users opted in to
Vector V2 will now get the treatment
** Clarifying feature responsibilities in ResourceLoaderSkinModule:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269877

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** On April 1st, Special:MediaSearch will become the default search UI on
Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users

=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Blocked by:
** None.
* Blocking:
** None.
* Thank yous:
** Margeigh and the whole Design team for their flexibility!
* Updates:
** Closing on end of Phase γ:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases


=== Language ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** No major updates this week.

=== Vue.js ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** WVUI: updating Storybook to use the new controls add-on instead of knobs
** Design inventory (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047 )
** Beginning the technical desicion-making process for adding an automated
build step for front-end assets

== Technology ==

=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** SRE ServiceOps for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
* Updates:


=== Engineering Productivity ===

 Performance 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** DC Ops for looking into device lab hosting feasibility
** ITS for doing the same
* Updates:

 Release Engineering 
* Blocked by:
** See wmf.37 train blockers.
* Blocking:
** ???
* Thank yous
** Legoktm for all kinds of assistance, on mw-on-k8s
* Updates:
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.36 [[phab:T274940]] 
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 [[phab:T278343]] 
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 [[phab:T278344]] 

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** No updates

=== WMDE Technical Wishes ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Kartographer exploration led to a straightforward, potential solution
for fixing the incompatibility with FlaggedRevs wikis.
** Beginning user research interviews for next year’s Geoinformation focus.
** Curious whether anyone else sees a need for mw-core anonymous user
“settings” management, currently done differently in many extensions.

== Cross-cutting ==
* Blocked by:
** [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the
migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142
(or at least 6.7)
* Blocking:
* None.
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** PHP 8.0 work
*** Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last
one.
*** Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; tank you to everyone
working on fixing them.
** Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
** CI tools' upgrade status:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia remote hackathon on May 22/23!

[Zoran Dori]

Hi,
I'm glad to hear so good news, and I would like to participate. :)

Best regards,
Zoran
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[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia remote hackathon on May 22/23!

[Birgit Müller]

Hello All,

Many of us were hopeful that we would be able to organise an onsite
hackathon and meet in person in 2021. While this is sadly not the case, we
still wanted to offer the opportunity for the technical community to get
together virtually, work together on various projects, and discuss new
ideas.



This is why we’re happy to invite you all to join the ‘21 Wikimedia remote
hackathon on May 22/23
 - save the date,
and bring your projects & ideas!

Building on last year’s edition, this event is organized in a light mode,
offering a lot of space for spontaneity, experimentation, and all kinds of
projects. The ‘21 Wikimedia remote hackathon is built by and for its
participants, and coordinated by a team of volunteers and staff - Amir,
Birgit, Joaquin, Léa, Mohammed, Neslihan, Pavritha.

On this page  you
will find all the relevant information. The planned framework consists of
one main track of sessions that participants can follow, open rooms for
informal discussions, workshops and social events, and to work together on
projects.

We will send out more information on how to schedule a session in the
program soon! You can also add yourself to the participants list
, and
mention if you would like to help with tasks such as facilitation, or
welcoming newcomers.

We hope that this event can be a moment of fun, reconnecting with
long-time-no-see Wikimedians as well as onboarding new people into the
technical community.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us on the
communication channels of the event
.

Hope to see you there!

The ‘21 remote hack coordination team


-- 
Birgit Müller (she/her)
Director of Technical Engagement

Wikimedia Foundation 
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