Re: [Wikitech-l] Is preprocessDump.php still useful?

As far as Analytics / Statistics are concerned, this is just an interesting artifact. The problems we have to solve while reading and processing XML dumps are quite different (custom file formats to handle files bigger than a single HDFS block, etc). Safe to delete in my opinion, the less code

[Wikitech-l] Is preprocessDump.php still useful?

This script was created in 2011 and takes an offline XML dump file, containing page content wikitext, and feeds its entries through the Preprocessor without actually importing any content into the wiki. The documented purpose of the script is to "get statistics" or "fill the cache". I was unable

[Wikitech-l] [Train] 1.36.0-wmf.27 status update (blocked at group0 by T272508)

The 1.36.0-wmf.27 version of MediaWiki[0] is at group0[1], and is currently blocked. Thanks to James Forrester, RhinosF1, abi_, Nikerabbit, Urbanecm, Daimona, Ladsgroup, Marostegui, and probably others I'm forgetting for getting us this far. The new version cannot be deployed further until

[Wikitech-l] 2021-01-20 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-01-20 2021-01-20 == Callouts == * Seats still available for the frontend web performance training. Doodle seems to be favoring West coast times currently: https://doodle.com/poll/ax9qak5mwb7rzvuh?utm_source=poll_medium=link === No updates ===