[Wikitech-l] Beta Cluster maintenance window 9/15 1500-1700 UTC

2016-09-09 Thread Dan Duvall
Hi all, We'll be migrating all Beta Cluster databases to new Debian jessie based instances next Tuesday, September 15, from 1500-1700 UTC. All Beta Cluster wikis will be in read-only mode during the migration. Please contact someone from WMF Release Engineering (#wikimedia-releng on freenode

[Wikitech-l] Weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-05

2016-09-09 Thread Deborah Tankersley
Hello, Here is the week's update from the Discovery department - enjoy the read and your weekend! == Discussions == * Trey completed the analysis for optimizing language identification for the Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki). The results were good (F0.5 = 82.3%) but not great. The small proportions of

[Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall 2016: Call for Participation

2016-09-09 Thread kghbln
Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis, We are very happy to announce the program of the 13th Semantic MediaWiki Conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany! People from business, academia and non-profit organizations will give a variety of very interesting talks and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for WikiDev Summit main topics and volunteers

2016-09-09 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Billghost, thank you for your interest! On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Bill Morrisson wrote: > Hello, > > I would love to volunteer, is there any particular task to do?? > We are bootstrapping the event, and there are two immediate tasks where everyone's help is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for WikiDev Summit main topics and volunteers

2016-09-09 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 1:36 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Who specifically are the organizers of the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017? > Rachel Farrand is the event organizer and I am the budget owner. We want to bootstrap an actual organization team this year, and I have shared our

[Wikitech-l] PHP 7 now available and usable in CI

2016-09-09 Thread Legoktm
Hi! PHP 7.0 is now available and usable in CI. As a small starter, we have added a job that runs "composer test" using PHP 7.0 for all repositories that run some form of MediaWiki or unit tests or composer tests. It's not enabled by default, so you'll need to run "check experimental" on a patch