[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2018-04-11

[Kate Chapman]

Hi All,

Below are the minutes of this week's TechCom meeting:

* IRC Meeting hosted for: MediaWiki's anonymous edit token leaves wiki
installations (incl. Wikipedia) open to mass anonymous spam we can't
block  Minutes:


* Next iteration of ICU migration in progress - once done we can upgrade
the application servers - won’t have php5 anywhere anymore

* MediaWiki 1.3.1 code freeze on 16th April.


You can also find our meeting minutes at


See also the TechCom RFC board
.

-- 
Kate Chapman
TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)


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[Wikitech-l] Reminder: Share you feedback in this Wikimedia survey

[Edward Galvez]

Hi everyone,

This is a friendly reminder about the Wikimedia Communities and
Contributors Survey.
*We have only heard from 50 Wikimedia volunteer developers. The survey will
close Sunday 22 April 2018.*

If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of
MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. The opinions you
share will affect the work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

*Follow this link to take the survey:* https://wikimedia.qualtrics.
com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV

If you have already seen a similar message on Phabricator, Mediawiki.org,
Discourse, or other platforms for volunteer developers, please don't take
the survey twice.
It is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40
minutes to complete.

You can find more information about this survey on the project page
 and
see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support contributors
like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this
privacy statement
.
Please visit our frequently asked questions page

 to find more information about this survey.

Feel free to email me directly with any questions you may have.

Thank you!
Edward Galvez from the Community Engagement department
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-l] Horizon and CI downtime Tomorrow, 2018-04-13

[Andrew Bogott]

    Next Friday we'll be upgrading our OpenStack cluster.  The upgrade 
should not interrupt any existing tools or instances, but during the 
upgrade it will be impossible to create, delete, or modify WMCS VMs.


    I'll start the process at around 14:00 UTC (7AM PDT).  The complete 
upgrade may take much of the day; Horizon will be disabled for the 
duration of this update.  CI/Nodepool will function intermittently 
during this time.


-Andrew


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Re: [Wikitech-l] In what order are "Pages that link here" sorted?

[Jaime Crespo]

They are ordered by page_id, so roughly older pages (in order of creation)
will appear earlier (*it is more complicated than that, but look at the
source code for details): includes/specials/SpecialWhatlinkshere.php .

There is not a record of the timestamp of when a page link relationship was
added to that table(s)- have also into account that I would bet that table
is filled in asynchronously, so it could pass a few seconds to a few
minutes until that information is added. I guess it could be suggested as a
feature, but I feel it is not the normal way contributors use it (e.g.
checks move/delete a page, wrong links to a disambiguation page, etc.), but
I could be very wrong.

If you want accurate information about those, you will need to analyze each
page to get which edit added such link. If you just want some recent ones,
I would suggest to download the list in 2 periods of times and compute the
differences to detect the recently added or deleted links. You have older
versions of the pagelinks/templatelinks/imagelinks tables for download on
the dumps, if you cannot wait, to perform analysis.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Joseph Reagle 
wrote:

> In what order are "Pages that link here" sorted? The follow doesn't seem
> to be by date-used or name:
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:
> WhatLinksHere/Template:Retired
>
> I'd like to get a list of reasonable recent ones for a in-class project
>
>
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Jaime Crespo

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[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2018.04 release

[Kartik Mistry]

Hello all,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2018.04. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.29 and 1.30 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.

Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major
changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release.
Please give us your feedback at
[[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].

* Download: 
https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.04.tar.bz2
* sha256sum: e8b4da822b2dcc7906e444a65e8924d8505c028c8636cdfe8d38059dc9ef1d1c

Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode

Release notes for each extension are below.

-- Kartik Mistry

== Highlights and upgrade notes ==

== Babel, cldr, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Localization and maintenance updates.

== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Fixed compatibility with MediaWiki 1.29 release.
* Added the 'translate' right to the 'editpage' grant. This will allow
OAuth apps to translate.
* Translation variables can now span multiple lines.
* AndroidXml file format now includes authors.
* Maintenance and performance updates.

== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Fixed Ctrl-Clicking in Compact Language Links. ([[phab:T189582|T189582]])
* ULS trigger and settings are more keyboard accessible now.
([[phab:T52793|T52793]])
* Language search results are not grouped by region.

-- 
Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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[Wikitech-l] In what order are "Pages that link here" sorted?

[Joseph Reagle]

In what order are "Pages that link here" sorted? The follow doesn't seem to be 
by date-used or name: 

  
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Retired

I'd like to get a list of reasonable recent ones for a in-class project


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Core Platform team

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

Thank you Victoria for this announcement.

For those who, like me, didn't know about the platform evolution 
cross-departemental program, it might be interesting to have a look at 
the the dedicated wiki[1]. I didn't read it all yet, and there might be 
more relevant resources out there, to which any link would be warmly 
welcome.


Cheers

[1] https://wikifarm.wmflabs.org/platformevolution/index.php/Main_Page


Le 10/04/2018 à 19:57, Victoria Coleman a écrit :

Hi everyone,

We are very pleased to be making three big announcements:

1. The Platform Evolution (PE) cross-departmental program (CDP) is approved in 
the annual plan for next fiscal year.

This PE CDP was developed with input from staff across our organization in the 
Audiences and Technology Working Group. Together, these staff worked to 
identify some of our most pressing issues while opening healthy discussions 
between both departments and WMDE.

Along with the other Technology programs funded in the annual plan, funding of 
this program represents a renewed commitment by the Foundation to the long term 
health of the technology that is key to supporting our mission, staff and 
communities.


2. We are creating the Core Platform team, a new converged platform and 
services team to be the focus of the Platform Evolution CDP.


We are doing this in order to better support the PE CDP and begin the hard work 
of re-architecting our technology stack into a more sustainable and flexible 
platform, in support of the Wikimedia movement strategic direction. The 
MediaWiki Platform team alongside the Services Platform team hold some of the 
most senior technologists of our community. Their skill sets and experience are 
vitally important for the success of the CDP so they will be moving into the 
new Core Platform team. We want to thank Tim Starling and Marko Obrovac for 
their hard work, leadership and dedication which has brought us to this point. 
They and their teams are doing incredibly  important work to sustain our 
software stack day in day out while also looking into the future and guiding 
the reengineering of our platform to support the mission for the years ahead.


3. Corey Floyd will be joining the Technology Department to lead the Core 
Platform team.

In addition to day to day management, Corey will operate in the program 
management capacity for the PE CDP. Corey was instrumental in formulating the 
PE CDP, assembling the program through extensive needs analysis, synthesis, and 
collaboration with Foundation team members and WMDE. He brings a proven track 
record in clarifying stakeholder needs and translating them into amazing 
products.

As many of you know, Corey started at the Foundation as an iOS engineer, was 
promoted to manage the iOS and Android native apps engineers who worked 
tirelessly to evolve the open source apps into award winners beloved by 
millions of our users, and has been operating in an
engineering product owner capacity for the Infrastructure team within 
Audiences-Readers. He is known for his work ethic, thought leadership, real 
world experience, and collegial spirit.

Audiences will be working to backfill the duties of Corey in Apps engineering 
management and Reading Infrastructure product ownership, and work is already 
underway to close these gap in conjunction with Corey’s cutover to Technology.

We’re happy to make the Platform Evolution CDP official. And please join me in 
welcoming Corey to Technology, where he’ll transition on July 1, 2018. We’ll be 
sharing more updates about the team and the PE CDP in the coming weeks.


We are incredibly excited!


Victoria and Toby
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