Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Train status report: MediaWiki 1.30.0-wmf.6 blocked by T168681

I am looking into the issue... The errors appear to have stopped. We didn't deploy new wikidata code this week so don't think it's related to deployment My guess is it's a bot passing bad data to the api, and we are missing some check of the user input in the code thus causing this to be a fatal

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] [Engineering] The train will resume tomorrow (was Re: All wikis reverted to wmf.8 last night due to T119736)

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier > wrote: > >> >> > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119736 - "Could not find local user >> data for {Username}@{wiki}" >> > >> > There was an order of

Re: [Wikitech-l] [QA] WMF Continuous Integration currently offline

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > On 08/06/16 18:47, Antoine Musso wrote: > >> Le 08/06/2016 à 15:02, Antoine Musso a écrit : >> >>> >>> The operation team has worked hard this European morning to backup >>> files, investigate the raid issue and setup a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Medical leave

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Frances Hocutt wrote: > Dear all, > > I’m writing to give a heads-up that I expect to be taking medical leave > from today through March 9, due in part to stress caused by the recent > uncertainty and organizational departures. In my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Close test2wiki?

On Jan 27, 2016 9:57 PM, "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? test2 is used a bit for testing wikibase client stuff like for lua templates. Forget why

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Now I also found this awesome guide: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aude/Git > > Perhaps it would worth merging and putting to some central location? > > This is just stuff I had to learn up how to do at some point.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architecture Committee expansion

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > In a recent meeting of the MediaWiki Architecture Committee, it was > agreed that Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) would be invited to join the > committee. Timo accepted this invitation. > > thought Timo was already on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting the CustomData extension

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > The reading web team discovered that no one was maintaining the > RelatedArticles [1] extension despite it being deployed on Wikivoyage, so > we have taken the time to clean it up and get it ported to extension.json >

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

On Aug 5, 2015 6:21 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: In the next RFC meeting, we will discuss the following RFC: * Streamlining Composer usage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Streamlining_Composer_usage The meeting will be on the IRC channel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: We're talking about a test, not a broad rollout (: I'm curious, Risker: if you don't mind my asking, what about being required to supply a throwaway email address would have discouraged you from opening a Wikimedia account?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parser cache update/migration strategies

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: Hi all! tl;dr: How to best handle the situation of an old parser cache entry not containing all the info expected by a newly deployed version of code? We are currently working to improve our usage of the parser

Re: [Wikitech-l] broken travis-ci builds of mediawiki

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:06 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:23 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There are build errors in the mediawiki builds on travis-ci, which have been happening for four months.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of June 23rd

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Giuseppe Lavagetto to Wikimedia Operations

On Apr 1, 2014 2:47 PM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm pleased to announce that today, Giuseppe Lavagetto will be joining the Operations Team as an Operations Engineer. Giuseppe is based in Rome, Italy and will be working with us remotely. Yay, more European ops staff! Welcome

Re: [Wikitech-l] short RfC review meeting Wednesday: five quick decisions

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: This Wednesday, 2100-21:30 UTC, let's have a thirty-minute RfC review meeting to check on a few proposals to consolidate, and whether a few authors have done their next steps from the last few months. (If

Re: [Wikitech-l] SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook and documenting skin template variables

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I created a bug around killing this hook in favour of more specific clearer hooks - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58137 - I don't think we should be tinkering with template variables personally under any

Re: [Wikitech-l] Possible topics for the next RFC review

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 10/26/2013 06:57 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Hi folks, Here's the RFCs that have the most interest expressed on the Architecture Summit invite page[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/TitleValue

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deployment postmortem

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.orgwrote: == Background == ZeroRatedMobileAccess has always depended on MobileFrontend and used it liberally, including calls to its classes. However, it was done in hooks called by MF so Zero simply stopped working in

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania DevCamp

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: 2013/7/30 Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com Actually you do. Registering for Wikimania will be highly appreciated. OK, but to clarify: if you are already registered for Wikimania (as most people who are on this

[Wikitech-l] Wikimania DevCamp

We invite folks attending Wikimania to join the DevCamp during the preconference days (August 7-8) at the main conference venue. Newbies, experienced developers and everyone is welcome. There will be a series of tutorials on topics including Wikimedia Labs, Wikidata, security and performance for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoc2013] Interested in developing Entity Suggester

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Nilesh Chakraborty nil...@nileshc.comwrote: Hi Lydia, I am currently drafting my proposal, I shall submit within a few hours once the initial version is complete. I installed mediawiki-vagrant on my PC and it went quite smoothly. I could do all the usual

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Luke Welling WMF lwell...@wikimedia.orgwrote: That was not the end of the problem I was referring to. We know our specific captcha is broken at turning away machines. As far as I am aware we do not know how many humans are being turned away by the difficulty of

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler examples?

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: The more I look at ContentHandler, the more it seems like a major new feature for MW. Are there any examples of this in use on Labs? It's used in the Wikibase extensions for Wikidata. We have test wikis on labs

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler examples?

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: On 01/12/2013 10:14 AM, aude wrote: ContentHandler is fully backwards compatibility so not meant to be disruptive, but has potential to make things easier and better in the future for new features. Sure

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler examples?

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.dewrote: Thanks aude for replying to Mark's questions! On 12.01.2013 17:08, aude wrote: It will set content type in the database for JavaScript or CSS pages, as default content type for MediaWiki namespace is wikitext

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/28 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are there any takers for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.comwrote: Hi aude, 2013/1/7 aude aude.w...@gmail.com: Anyone know if this is happening or not? Sometime around the chapters meeting seems as good a time as any. Or maybe attached as a few days before/after

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we help Tor users make legitimate edits?

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Bawolff has it right, pretty much. For legitimate users, an IPBE can be handed out. We have very limited human resources on the projects themselves to address the issuing of tokens and IPBEs now. For me, this is largely a

Re: [Wikitech-l] scaled media (thumbs) as *temporary* files, not stored forever

, and hope no one uses them to hotlink. (my humble opinion!) Cheers, Katie On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:01 PM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I just wanted to clarify something... is there any protection in place

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:04 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Hi. There's a fairly straightforward request to add an API/Developer/Developer Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis, near the Disclaimers, Mobile view, etc. links: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464.

Re: [Wikitech-l] scaled media (thumbs) as *temporary* files, not stored forever

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I just wanted to clarify something... is there any protection in place in the thumbnail generator to prevent denial of service attacks? For instance if someone wanted to they could run a script which uploaded photos then

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 07/17/2012 08:41 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: It would appear from reading this page that the only alternative to Gerrit that has a serious following is GitHub. Is that the case? We definitely need a GitHub

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Asheesh Laroia li...@asheesh.org wrote: Excerpts from Sumana Harihareswara's message of Mon Jun 18 15:40:57 -0400 2012: On 06/18/2012 03:34 PM, Derric Atzrott wrote: In order to come, you have to register for the Wikimania conference: I'm already

Re: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard changes live on Commons

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: We've pushed some updates to UploadWizard, most notably: * disabled multiple-file selection in browsers where it didn't work * files now start uploading immediately when selected (this can be disabled server-side if

Re: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard changes live on Commons

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:36 PM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if anything changed with the license selector part of the code and interface, but I tried uploading some maps (from OpenStreetMap

Re: [Wikitech-l] first Wikidata office hour on IRC

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a log from it? Here are the logs: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-04-05 Cheers, Katie On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hey

[Wikitech-l] Deadline for Wikimania submissions is Sunday

Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon! The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco) Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012). We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types of sessions. We want the

[Wikitech-l] Wikimania scholarship deadline: Feb 16

Reminder that the deadline to apply for a Wikimania 2012 travel scholarship is February 16 (23:59 UTC). We encourage you to apply! We need developers and tech folks at Wikimania, including for the hackathon, the technical track, workshops and more. :)

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012

FYI, the Wikimania 2012 call for participation is out! We encourage you to submit a talk, a workshop or panel session for Wikimania 2012. We have a technical track throughout the conference. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Scholarships are also open now, should you need help

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Open / Wiki Data Hack Day

: From: Aude aude.w...@gmail.com Date: November 30, 2011 8:18:10 AM EST To: wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: International Open Data Hack Day On Saturday, Dec 3 at the MLK Jr Library, there will be a hackathon with focus on open data, including anything related to wiki data. http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who actually reads @wikimediatech ?

On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote: There's only 78 followers. Most of them are staff. That's not a lot of people to leverage, so I'm not sure that's a valid

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/6/3 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: The only reason I can see for not allowing embedding is that embedding would be promoting YouTube Embedding YouTube videos in Wikimedia content would send IP

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: My apologies for cross-posting, but it's my opinion the awesomeness of this news makes up for it :) zomg!!! totally awesome! :) Welcome back Brion! -Katie The link to the blog post below is wrong, it should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: For those of you who didn't see bug 26791, our use of JSMin has been found to conflict with our GPL license. Thank you for removing JSMin! Thou shall use mediawiki for evil! ;) -Katie (@aude) - Trevor (and Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Upload tweaks: thumbnail boxes for your boxing day

and Chrome). Awesome!!! I'm eager to see this feature deployed on Wikimedia Commons. -Katie (@aude) This helps with a longstanding problem that's bugged me for years: when the AJAX filename conflict thingy trips, you get a thumb of the *existing* file but not of the file you're about

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki.org's [[MediaWiki:Newarticletext]]

, and was appalled at the hideous stop sign and bright red warning text. :( We don't need to go so crazy with templates, large warnings, etc. especially on mediawiki.org Please let's get rid of it. aude -- Andrew Garrett http://werdn.us

Re: [Wikitech-l] Helping with code review

be more accessible for some folks! Woohoo! I think getting the JS / resource loader code into good shape is quite important, and will impact developers downstream who are working on extensions and such. @aude -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attention MediaWiki Hackers!

there will be swag of some sort for attendees :) Cool :) @aude -Chad [0] http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/hack-a-ton-dc/ [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hack-A-Ton_DC ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attention MediaWiki Hackers!

On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Danese Cooper dcoo...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Aude, Very awesome that no travel is required! Yes, we did that just for you ;-). Seriously...we were hoping to attract some of the many super-users of MediaWiki in the greater DC area. I can do any amount

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Announce]: Mark Bergsma promotion to Operations Engineer Programs Manager

as a logical next step in his career, and to that end we will gradually add direct reports under Mark over the next year, starting with the Data Center Ops crew. He will continue to report to me until we hire a Director of Technical Operations. Congrats Mark!!! -aude PS - let me/us know when you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Viewing site configs

noob questions? Thanks, William Check out wiki-tech: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ Brion, RobH, and others have documented some of the procedures, such how to add a new wiki: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Add_a_wiki -Aude ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Has anyone heard of a file download issue with Mediawiki / Wikipedia?

editors to work, the browser needs to be configured. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors If that's not the problem, then I'm not sure what the problem is. -Aude -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

disappointed to see you go, though wish you the best with your new position. -Aude -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia is full

are forbidden at work. :( But, I am allowed to access gmail. So, I very much appreciate it when people send messages to the mailing list about such problems. -Aude ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change redirection on wikimania.wikimedia.org

that they provided?) -Aude On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 1/3/09 12:54 AM, James R. wrote: Hi guys, Could someone with the access please change the redirection on http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/ to the wikimania2009.wikimedia.org site