[Wikitech-l] Re: MediaWiki 1.42-alpha will be branched as a beta on 9 April 2024

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 11:17, James Forrester wrote: > Hey all, > > This is a quick note to highlight that in five weeks' time, the REL1_42 > branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and > skins in Wikimedia git. This is now done. This is the first step

[Wikitech-l] Re: api error

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 13:16, Tim Moody wrote: > > If I access > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=visualeditor&… Hi Tim, If you go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help=visualeditor you'll see that this API is labelled as an internal, do-not-call API. The page you're

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.42-alpha will be branched as a beta on 9 April 2024

Hey all, This is a quick note to highlight that in five weeks' time, the REL1_42 branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules of MediaWiki itself[0]. This is the first step in the release process

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.41.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.41.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.41.0. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues

[Wikitech-l] Experimental PHP 8.3 jobs now available in Gerrit CI

All, PHP 8.3.0 was released last month, and so I've made it available in Wikimedia Gerrit's CI as an experimental job.[0] This means on repos tested with PHP, you can run 'check experimental' to trigger a run. However, there are a number of known blockers preventing us making these tests

[Wikitech-l] eslint-config-wikimedia v0.26.0 released

All, I'm happy to announce that v0.26.0 of the Wikimedia JavaScript coding standards tool eslint-config-wikimedia is now out. The previous version, v0.25.1, came out in

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.41-beta has been branched

Hey all, This is a quick note to highlight that I've created the REL1_41 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git[0]. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.41.0, which should be out in November 2023, approximately six months after

[Wikitech-l] Re: Announcing MediaWiki 1.40.0

On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 08:02, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: > I note that we have not yet updated > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40 > > This is something that James Forrester tended to do, but I'm not sure if > that still falls under their responsibilities. It's

[Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Internet Explorer 11 will be JavaScript-less starting April 2023

Hello all, Starting in April 2023, MediaWiki will end Grade A support for browsers that do not implement ES6 JavaScript.[0] This mostly affects the small number of Internet Explorer 11 users. A very small number of iOS users who have not upgraded to iOS 10 (released in 2017) are also affected.

[Wikitech-l] Re: MediaWiki 1.40-alpha will be branched as a beta on 13 March 2023

On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 12:03, Tyler Cipriani wrote: > Hey all, > > This is a quick note to highlight that in six weeks' time, the REL1_40 > branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and > skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules > of

[Wikitech-l] Re: Dropping PHP 7.3 support

On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 06:24, Taavi Väänänen wrote: > Hi all, > > Now that Wikimedia production is fully on PHP 7.4[0], I propose dropping > support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 from the master branch (which currently > means it'd apply to MW 1.40). PHP 7.2 is already not supported on the > release

[Wikitech-l] Re: MediaWiki 1.39-alpha will be branched as a beta on 5 September 2022

On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 18:10, Tyler Cipriani wrote: > Hey all, > > This is a quick note to highlight that in six weeks' time, the REL1_39 > branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and > skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules > of

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.38-alpha will be branched as a beta on 15 March 2022

Hey all, This is a quick note to highlight that in two weeks' time, the REL1_38 branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules of MediaWiki itself[0]. This is the first step in the release process

[Wikitech-l] (T282585) Asynchronous Content Fragments working group update, 2021-10-12

Hey all, A quick update from me about the work of the Asynchronous Content Fragments working group. *TL;DR* We're meeting each week to talk about adding async content support to MW. This week we discussed possible upper-level use cases, with initial thoughts documented on this page

[Wikitech-l] Re: MediaWiki 1.37-alpha will be branched as a beta on 14 September 2021

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 16:59, Tyler Cipriani wrote: > Hey all, > > This is a quick note to highlight that in three weeks' time, the REL1_37 > branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and > skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules > of

[Wikitech-l] Re:  Summary of 1.37.0-wmf.17 train deployment

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 01:19, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Indeed. James is one of the best things that has happened to the movement. > > Kunal Mehta schrieb am Do., 12. Aug. 2021, 09:04: > >> On 8/11/21 5:56 PM, Mukunda Modell wrote: >> > Yes I know James is mentioned twice. There really aren't

[Wikitech-l] Re: [MediaWiki-l] Replacing jQuery's hasClass() in MW extension JS code

[Moving to wikitech-l; mediawiki-l is a little off-topic.] On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 21:27, Yaron Koren wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get rid of the ESLint warnings for the JavaScript code > in some of my extensions, when they go through Jenkins validation. One > warning that appears fairly

[Wikitech-l] CI jobs are now running Node 12, up from Node 10

All, As Node 10 is EOL, many of our upstream tools have been dropping Node 10 support recently, which is slowing down development and creating work for teams. I have thus created the Node 12 CI infrastructure (T284343 ) based on Debian Bullseye (thank

[Wikitech-l] CI now runs a phan job for most MediaWiki extensions and skins

Hi all, Across the MediaWiki development community, we've increasingly been using phan for static analysis and vulnerability checking. It's become very valuable in spotting issues during development, especially thanks to the security

[Wikitech-l] 2021-04-14 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-04-14 = 2021-04-14 = Grace/Deb have conflicts today. Please self-organize :) == Callouts == * MediaWiki 1.36-beta has been branched: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094424.html == Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia CI now using Quibbble test running 0.0.44

All, I've released, and switched Wikimedia CI over to, a new version of Quibble, version 0.0.44. There are two minor changes in this release compared to the previous state, 0.0.41: * Firstly, quibble now prints the version strings of mysql and postgres being run, alongside the versions of PHP,

[Wikitech-l] Marking the 600,000th commit on Wikimedia Gerrit

Hey all, I wrote a quick post celebrating that today, after nine years using Gerrit, we hit our 600,000th commit. To all the committers, reviewers, and mergers, thank you. Yours, -- *James D.

[Wikitech-l] Milestone: CI now running PHP 7.4 tests as voting

All, Ahead of the release of MediaWiki 1.35.0, a number of people have been working to make sure that MediaWiki is compatible with PHP 7.4.[0] We have now reached the final phase of that work, where we are checking that we don't regress in CI. This is running on the master branch, as REL1_34 is

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.35.0 development branch point is coming soon (7 April 2020)

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 12:24, James Forrester wrote: > All, > > Just a friendly heads-up that the branch point for MediaWiki 1.35.0 is > coming up faster than you expect; we're currently on 1.35.0-wmf.20, and > 1.35.0-wmf.7 (in seven weeks' time, *i.e.* on 7 April 2020) will be th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki codesniffer usage

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 16:19, Zoran Dori wrote: > Is anywhere available list of extensions which don't have > mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer? > Not easily, but this is a list of all extensions known to gerrit (860

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.35.0 development branch point is coming soon (7 April 2020)

All, Just a friendly heads-up that the branch point for MediaWiki 1.35.0 is coming up faster than you expect; we're currently on 1.35.0-wmf.20, and 1.35.0-wmf.7 (in seven weeks' time, *i.e.* on 7 April 2020) will be the final alpha of 1.35, and thus where I cut REL1_35 ahead of rc.0.[0] There

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.32 is End of Life

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 08:53, Peter Presland wrote: > Per other replies about php version requirements and the putative > difficulties involved for Redhat OS users, I am left wondering about how > important the stated Mediawiki php version requirements really are. > > My wondering is prompted by

[Wikitech-l] Quibble test runner version 0.0.40 released

All, I've released a new version of Quibble just today, version 0.0.40. This has a few changes, most notable further improvements to support the work on testing Core Platform team's new RESTful API. The full change log is available at https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html Thank you

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] [Train] 1.35.0-wmf.11 status update

The 1.35.0-wmf.11 version of MediaWiki is fully deployed to Wikimedia production.[0][1] Thank you to everyone for their help resolving issues, both this week and over the past year. The train will be next deployed from Tuesday, 7 January 2020 onwards with 1.35.0-wmf.14. [0].

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] [Train] 1.35.0-wmf.11 status update

The 1.35.0-wmf.11 version of MediaWiki is again blocked[0]. The new version is deployed to group 1 except for Commons[1], but can proceed no further until this issue is resolved: * Wikibase[MediaInfo?] throwing "Cannot access the database: No working replica DB server: Unknown error"

[Wikitech-l] PHP 7.4.0 code testing now available in Wikimedia CI

All, Over the US holiday weekend, PHP 7.4.0 final was released, and so I've made it available in Wikimedia CI as an experimental job.[0] Although it will generally work as a drop-in replacement for PHP 7.3.x testing, because of the breadth and depth of our code bases it's likely that there will

[Wikitech-l] Production config dblists are now auto-generated at merge time from YAML

Hey all, [Unless you're writing Wikimedia production MediaWiki-land configuration changes, you can ignore this note.] As part of my work on moving variant configuration in static files[0], I've just merged and deployed a change to how dblists work. They are now auto-generated at merge time[1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Note: Contents of mw-config's InitialiseSettings has moved to VariantSettings

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 10:09, James Forrester wrote: > If you don't write or deploy Wikimedia production config patches, you can > ignore this. > > This is a note to highlight a change, which will be obvious as soon as you > try to rebase a patch: the parts of configuration tha

[Wikitech-l] Note: Contents of mw-config's InitialiseSettings has moved to VariantSettings

If you don't write or deploy Wikimedia production config patches, you can ignore this. This is a note to highlight a change, which will be obvious as soon as you try to rebase a patch: the parts of configuration that vary per-wiki, which previously have lived in InitialiseSettings.php, have now

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] [Train] 1.34.0-wmf.20 status update

On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 15:59, Antoine Musso wrote: > On 02/09/2019 21:12, David Barratt wrote: > > Can you give an update on the status of the train? Will Group 2 be moved > to > > wmf.20 or will it skip that version? > > https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/ > > > > Thanks! > > Hello, > > Monday

[Wikitech-l] FYI: Continuous Integration now running node 10 for MW, extensions, and skins

Hey all, A quick heads-up: the continuous integration tests for MediaWiki core, MediaWiki extensions, and MediaWiki skins are now all using node 10, replacing node 6, which is end-of-life. CI jobs were replaced by new ones which should run faster, without any disruption for developers' work. For

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pending (false positive?) translations on Gerrit to Toolforge tools

On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 05:01, Martin Urbanec wrote: > Since I'm the one with +2 at labs/tools/commons-mass-description and > labs/tools/map-of-monuments, I've reviewed the newest patch from > l10n-bot, and abandoned the rest. Thanks for notifying me this way! > Oh, sorry Martin. :-) Didn't check

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pending (false positive?) translations on Gerrit to Toolforge tools

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 02:55, Sam Wilson wrote: > Are these actually false positives? Because it looks like the error is > mostly (or all?) "HTML detected. Manual review required", and so these > shouldn't be automatically merged without human review. > Correct. Those patches are waiting for

[Wikitech-l] All Wikimedia production services will move to the Kubernetes pipeline

*TL;DR*: As part of the annual plan, we are moving Wikimedia Services to be run in an orchestrated platform driven by a new build pipeline (yes, that means containers). All new services for Wikimedia production must now start using this platform. By the end of June 2019, we will have started

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community-Engineering gaps as defined in configuration

On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 11:50, bawolff wrote: > In regards to wgUseRCPatrol - I suspect (but don't know) that originally > that was disabled on enwiki as a performance thing. If it was a performance > concern, that's probably irrelevant at this point. > Sadly, no. It was enabled as a new feature

Re: [Wikitech-l] What would you like to see in gerrit?

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 11:35, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Am 28.01.19 um 19:25 schrieb Paladox via Wikitech-l: > > Hi, what would you like to see in gerrit or improved? > > * I would like to be able to set a cut-off date for my dashboard. E.g. > "show > only things touched in the last 2 weeks".

[Wikitech-l] FYI: MediaWiki 1.30 branched; master is now 1.31

Hey all, Just a quick note that MediaWiki 1.30 has been branched (REL1_30 started at c3a0f25c040e4f69daba5223393d99a03074b0a0), with version bumped from alpha to 1.30.0-rc.0. As normal, extensions, skins and vendor have also been branched. The RC0 will be released for testing in the coming weeks,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Web application to upload csv file to wiktionary

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 at 10:15 Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: > There is also > https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/csv2wikitable.php > if you're using raw text csv files themselves. > (Found via https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#/search/csv and > source code linked

[Wikitech-l] FYI: CI npm version upgraded from 2.x to 3.x

Please note that we've upgraded the version of npm used in the Wikimedia continuous integration infrastructure. This means that CI should be more consistent with developers' local set-ups, and lets us test in a more normal environment. This change will only affect node-based CI tasks, like the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 at 08:01 Pine W wrote: > I understand that moving from HTML 4 to HTML 5 is probably a good idea. > > However, I am concerned about this statement: "This will require editors > to fix pages and templates to address wikitext patterns that behave >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Group 2 deployment regression: Watchlist breaking change

‪On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 at 13:19 ‫יגאל חיטרון‬‎ wrote:‬ > Which ticket? I started from writing here, it's more emergent. No. E-mailing a list with no real reproduction steps gets a far slower response than filing an "Unbreak Now" task. I've filed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Group 2 deployment regression: Watchlist breaking change

‪On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 at 13:10 ‫יגאל חיטרון‬‎ wrote:‬ > Hello. Our wiki, he, has Group 2 deployment, an hour ago. There is > something wrong in it. The Special:Watchlist is very weird. > Ah, that sounds bad. Can you link to the Phab ticket so we can look at getting this fixed

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: OOjs UI 0.22.0 release (breaking change)

Hello everyone, It looks like Volker's e-mail, below, didn't get distributed by the list on Wednesday; re-sending now. With apologies. -- Forwarded message -- From: Volker Eckl Date: Wed, May 31, 2017 at 1:30 AM Subject: OOjs UI 0.22.0 release (breaking

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Internet Explorer 9 will be JavaScript-less starting April 2017

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 at 07:19 Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Great news! > > Have we considered dropping IE 10 to grade C given Microsoft ended support > for it more than a year ago and it seems to be as low as IE 9 (only a 0.24% > *[1]*)? > Certainly, that would be

[Wikitech-l] Deprecation notice for citoid.wikimedia.org domain

Hey all, The citoid service, which looks up URLs and similar strings and turns them into citations, has moved to be accessed via RESTbase as part of decommissioning the per-service domain system[0]. The old domain will stop working on *1 May 2017* (just under two months from now). In simple

Re: [Wikitech-l] Provisional notes for proposed revision table restructuring

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 at 16:52 MZMcBride wrote: > For a "regular" MediaWiki installation, will making these changes be a > matter of simply updating MediaWiki's application code and running > maintenance/update.php? > Yes. > For Wikimedia wikis, as far as I know update.php is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Many watchlist features were broken at last deployment

‪On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 at 06:47 ‫יגאל חיטרון‬‎ wrote:‬ > Yesterday the new mediawiki deployment was done in our (he)wiki. As result, > at least one gadget (and maybe more, and maybe more in other wikis will > come this eve) , WLM (Watchlist Manager) was destroyed. Really

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor discards changes made in Wikitext editor

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 at 10:42 John P. New wrote: > I've set up MW 1.28 with VE/parsoid and everything is working well > > However, when I edit in (any) wikitext editor and try to switch to VE, I > am presented with a dialog with only 2 choices: "Cancel" or "Discard my >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [QA] Browser testing user satisfaction survey

Interesting patterns there. Is the plan to follow-up with these with particular actions? That said, it seems to me a bit muddy as to what activities would best serve the responses. I suppose education/support work for those that don't feel they know *e.g.* how to use the rake/grunt entry points,

Re: [Wikitech-l] to be enabled tomorrow

Great to see. Thank you for all your work on this, Discovery! On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 at 14:16 Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Seems we have no more blockers for tag on all Wikipedias. We will > enable it tomorrow, Sept 1st. tag allows editors to add a link to > a popup map,

Re: [Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures grafana dashboard

On 29 July 2016 at 02:54, Addshore wrote: > Recently WMDE started rolling out the RevisionSlider beta feature to a > handful of wikis. > > We wanted to track how many people were using the feature as well as how > many people were enabling / disabling it per day. > >

[Wikitech-l] Anyone use the ImageMetrics extension's data?

All, From what we in Multimedia can tell, the ImageMetrics extension was put into production as an EventLogging source to measure data about users and images, to make decisions about MediaViewer whilst it was being actively developed. As that's now in the past, is there any interest in

[Wikitech-l] μRfC: Requiring 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki

Hey all, Following a brief chat in IRC, I've proposed[0] adding curl to the list of PHP extensions required by MediaWiki, and Chad thought it'd be a good idea to get wider thoughts before merging. Right now we have some features that require curl (it's probably the #2 issue third parties have

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2016-06-01 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

On 3 June 2016 at 00:14, Pine W wrote: > I'd like to request a clarification about RESTBase. > > These notes say: > "* RESTBase > ** enforcing rate limits as of today > *** pageview: 10 req/s > *** transforms: 5 req/s" > > Can you expand on what kinds of requests these rate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best practice for WIP patches to help code review office hours

On 12 May 2016 at 14:26, Jon Robson wrote: > Gerrit is commonly used as a place to share works in progress early. > > This is great, but it has an unfortunate side effect of making it > harder for would-be reviewers to find patches that need reviewing > using this query: > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator upgrade and UI changes

On 4 May 2016 at 11:57, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > It would also be nice to have some precise and authoritative information > on when Phabricator was upgrade to what version, what the release notes and > gotchas are, etc. > ​ ​ > ​It'd be great if there was more content

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mostly about anglophile devs, and a small complaint about VisualEditor

On 13 March 2016 at 23:51, John Erling Blad wrote: > Thank you for the pointer to the shortcuts-page. Tried some of them, they > didn't work... I'l try to remember to write a bug tomorrow. > > Selected text, tried Control-M, bolding did not go away. Backslash is not > an easy

[Wikitech-l] OOjs UI 0.16.0 release (breaking change)

Hey all, I released OOjs UI 0.16.0 today. It will be in MediaWiki core from 1.27.0-wmf.15 which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train, starting on Tuesday 1 March. As there are four breaking changes (albeit some nominal) please look carefully over them to determine if they

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor deployment to 1000+ users: who wants the feedback?

On 29 January 2016 at 12:22, Daniel Barrett wrote: > Within the next few weeks, I'll be deploying VisualEditor for 1000+ > authors here at Cimpress/Vistaprint, in a wiki with 225,000 articles. > ​Hey Daniel, Best of luck with the deploy! I plan to collect feedback from our

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Announcing mediawiki-containers, a Docker-based MediaWiki installer

On 27 December 2015 at 11:52, Ori Livneh wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Gabriel Wicke > wrote: > >> I am writing to announce mediawiki-containers [1], a simple installer for >> MediaWiki with VisualEditor, Parsoid, RESTBase and other

Re: [Wikitech-l] Close test2wiki?

On 27 January 2016 at 14:18, Alex Monk wrote: > +1 from me for closing it. Do people have important things there, or can it > be 'deleted'? > ​We could just move all the content into testwiki and redirect the ​domain. ;-) ​J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Close test2wiki?

On 27 January 2016 at 13:57, Ori Livneh wrote: > The setup of test2.wikipedia.org is no longer meaningfully different from > test.wikipedia.org. Is there a good reason for keeping test2? > ​I'd be happy for it to be closed.​ ​J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator project naming conventions for skins

On 26 January 2016 at 07:14, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > So, what should the names be? ​Policy was settled in 2014 and remains in effect: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Creating_and_renaming_projects – I'd suggest discussing there, not splitting the

[Wikitech-l] OOjs UI 0.15.0 Release (breaking change)

Hey all, I released OOjs UI 0.15.0 today. It will be in MW from 1.27.0-wmf.11+, which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train starting on Tuesday 19 January. As there are a couple of nominal breaking changes and a deprecation, please look carefully over them to determine if

Re: [Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures and the wmgBetaFeaturesWhitelist

On 10 December 2015 at 18:48, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 10 December 2015 at 17:12, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> So I enabled a beta feature today that is part of reading web's >> quarterly goals (read more about r

Re: [Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures and the wmgBetaFeaturesWhitelist

at all, not merely partially.​ Thanks for the bug report, and I see you've filed it as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121182. Thank you; I'll see if we can get it fixed PDQ. > The whitelist also asks when enabling to check with James Forrester and > Greg > and to note a date 6 mon

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who owns (or should own) OOjs UI?

Short-cut answer to the title question: Me. On 9 December 2015 at 10:26, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński > wrote: > > > On 2015-12-04 18:59, Adam Baso wrote: > > > >> I do wonder though if we've spent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

On 5 December 2015 at 00:25, Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) > > I'll quote Sumana from last time: > > > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each > > other?

[Wikitech-l] OOjs UI 0.14.0 Release (breaking change)

Hey all, I released OOjs UI 0.14.0 today. It will be in MW from 1.27.0-wmf.8+, which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train starting on Tuesday 8 December. As there are a couple of nominal breaking changes and a deprecation, please look carefully over them to determine if

[Wikitech-l] Please welcome Joe Matazzoni as Product Manager, Collaboration

Everyone, It's my pleasure to welcome Joe Matazzoni to the Editing department as the new product manager for the Collaboration team from today. Joe will help the team develop aligned with the needs of our editors, prioritizing and shaping the improvements we're making to notifications,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] IE 8 will go JavaScript-less starting January 2016

On 12 November 2015 at 10:50, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Would it be worth running a CentralNotice banner in January specifically > for IE8 users to inform them of the change and encourage them to upgrade? > ​Given CN banners are shown with​ JavaScript (and we'd certainly not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rewriting the watchstar code in OOjs UI / performance

On 4 November 2015 at 10:48, Jon Robson wrote: > If we are to turn this into an OOjs UI widget, this would mean that > the OOjs UI library gets pulled in on every single page load. The OOjs > UI library, without styles or icon assets from what I can see is 226.5 > kB

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allowing extensions to specify which MW core versions they require (was: RFC meeting this week)

On 18 September 2015 at 19:03, Chad wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:30 PM Legoktm > wrote: > > > I removed the WIP tag on Sept. 1st, and no one has objected so far. I'd > > like to get this included in the 1.26 release (being branched on

Re: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard long term problems

On 15 September 2015 at 08:26, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 15 September 2015 at 08:10, Mark Holmquist <mtrac...@member.fsf.org> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: >> > On Tue, 2015-09-15

Re: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard long term problems

On 15 September 2015 at 08:10, Mark Holmquist wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 08:10 -0500, Mark Holmquist wrote: > > Are these questions listed on some UploadWizard wikipage/section? > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tutorials / HowTos for VisualEditor

On 27 August 2015 at 06:54, florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de wrote: A VE save could be recognized with the postEdit hook[1] in JavaScript: mw.hook( 'postEdit' ).add( // your function ); Remember, that this hook is also fired after a normal save

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tutorials / HowTos for VisualEditor

On 27 August 2015 at 05:59, Robert Vogel vo...@hallowelt.com wrote: Hi! James, Florian, thank you for your responses! This will be very useful for me. I didn't have the time to look through all of Florian's links, so maybe it's somewhere in there, but, James, can you give me a hint how to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tutorials / HowTos for VisualEditor

On 25 August 2015 at 23:30, Robert Vogel vo...@hallowelt.com wrote: Hi everybody! I want to write an extension for the VisualEditor (great work by the way) and I need a little help. First off, the easiest way to get help is to ask in IRC ( #mediawiki-visualeditor

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page Curation for other wikis

On 21 August 2015 at 01:04, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Page Curation [1][2][3] is a project funded by WMF ​Was. There have been no substantial commits to it since April 2013.​ [Snip] If ​ it's not funded anymore, Is anyone willing to help as volunteer to work? If

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Cross-Post: Editing + Reading Meeting Notes

[Un-duplicate posting. Unless it's an announcement or critically-urgent, please don't ever do that.] On 27 July 2015 at 11:27, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I'm happy to hear that VE is coming to mobile web. ​It's not coming (it's been available for tablet users for 18 months); it's being​

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Cross-Post: Editing + Reading Meeting Notes

On 27 July 2015 at 14:44, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: James, Thanks. ​ I have a follow up question regarding project management in general. When the length of time for development and testing are unbounded so that product quality is the principal goal, how do you forecast needs for

Re: [Wikitech-l] I love Parsoid but it doesn't want me

On 23 July 2015 at 22:34, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Il 24/07/2015 06:35, C. Scott Ananian ha scritto: I don't know about edits tagged as VisualEditor. That seems like that should only be done by VE. All edits made via visualeditoredit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of mobile.wikipedia.org and wap.wikipedia.org in support of browser HSTS preload

On 24 July 2015 at 16:18, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Anyone against this? ​ Do it.​ ​J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Parsoid announcement: Main roundtrip quality target achieved

On 25 June 2015 at 15:22, Subramanya Sastry ssas...@wikimedia.org wrote: TL:DR; 1. Parsoid[1] roundtrips 99.95% of the 158K pages in round-trip testing without introducing semantic diffs[2]. 2. With trivial simulated edits, the HTML - wikitext serializer used in production (selective

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Timo Tijhof joining the performance team

On 22 June 2015 at 15:28, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I am delighted to announce that Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) is joining the Wikimedia Foundation's performance team. ​Excellent news. We'll miss Timo in Editing, but ​are looking forward to working with him on performance

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] WebM/Ogg playback: testing energy usage on iOS

On 19 June 2015 at 02:08, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: One of the reasons we've always worried about using the open Ogg and WebM formats on iPhones and iPads is that we don't get to make use of the hardware MP4/H.264 codec... using the main CPU cores is presumed to drain the

[Wikitech-l] FYI: HTMLForm is now available in OOUI format

As part of the on-going UI standardisation work[0], we have just merged into MediaWiki master a patch that will allow users of HTMLForm[1] to easily switch over to use OOUI[2]. This allows you to make your code use the standard UI styling and components with very little effort, improving

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt

On 25 May 2015 at 21:39, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has been hired as a Software Engineer on the Community Tech team starting 2015-05-26. ​Welcome, Frances! Looking forward to working with you. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester Product

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Niharika Kohli

On 25 May 2015 at 22:20, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: Community Tech is glad to welcome Niharika Kohli as a Software Engineer. Her first day will be 2015-05-26. ​Welcome, Niharika!​ Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC and Outreachy results out!

On 27 April 2015 at 13:00, Niharika Kohli nko...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone! After a long and intense selection process, Google and GNOME Foundation have finally announced the list of GSoC and Outreachy selects for the current round. I'm pleased to announce we have 9 interns for

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

On 15 April 2015 at 18:12, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 17:59, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks James, unfortunately the method that you demonstrate there doesn't work with my configuration. Nothing happens when I try that method with Firefox

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Editing product analyst Neil P. Quinn

I ​ am very pleased to welcome Neil P. Quinn as the latest member of the Editing team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing, as our product analyst working alongside me. I​ n his own words: I was born and raised in North Carolina—specifically the lovely, humid, famous-for-NASCAR city of

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

On 15 April 2015 at 14:55, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Trevor, I tried a CSV copy and paste as you suggested, but that doesn't work for me. Ah, no, ​CSV and TSV support is for drag-and-drop, not copy-and-paste (which is plain text content):

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

On 15 April 2015 at 17:59, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks James, unfortunately the method that you demonstrate there doesn't work with my configuration. Nothing happens when I try that method with Firefox, and when I try it with Internet Explorer then IE asks me if I want to open

[Wikitech-l] Reminder: VisualEditor weekly triage meetings – 2015-03-11

As a reminder, this week's VisualEditor triage meeting will be at ​19 http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150311T12p1=224ah=1 :00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150311T12p1=224ah=1 ​ ( 12 :00 PDT) – that's in approximately 24 hours' time (note

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