[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 queries in the Romance languages and in
German led to many more false positives than true positives and so they had
to be excluded. Future work on improving confidence may help. [1]
* We could use help translating (via translatewiki) the relevant "showing
results from" messages into Dutch. We'll need English, Chinese, Arabic,
Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, and Russian translations. [2]
* The Analysis team had a discussion on how to use better wording for
phrases like "users were 1.07 times more likely to do X" and decided on
using phrases similar to "we can expect 2-9 more sessions to click on a
search result when they have the new feature" [3]
* The Search team wrapped up research into the ElasticSearch instabilities
on the eqiad search cluster that occurred on Aug 6, 2016; nothing
conclusive was found. [4]


== Events and News ==

=== Interactive ===
*  has been enabled on all wikis (announced via email to
wikitech-l) [5]
* Geoshapes data service is now integrated into all maps [6]

=== Search ===
* Turned off BM25 A/B test, awaiting analysis [7]
* Pushed into production a change that implemented ascii-folding for French
[8]
* Improved balance of nodes across rows for ElasticSearch eqiad cluster [9]

=== Portal ===
* Currently blocked on this check-in to gerrit [10]


== Other Noteworthy Stuff' ==
* Our elasticsearch clusters now have "row aware shard allocation". This
means that we can theoretically lose one row of servers in our datacenter
and still serve search traffic. [11]
* The Search team sent out a request for comment article that was posted to
various Village Pumps asking for it to be translated. [12]
** This was in reference to the cross-wiki search results new functionality
and design articles on MediaWiki. [13], [14]


== Did you know? ==
* A study came out yesterday showing that giraffes are actually four
distinct species, rather than one (article and BBC report). [15], [16]
** Of course, the English and German Wikipedia pages on giraffes have
already been updated! [17], [18]


[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization_for_plwiki_arwiki_zhwiki_and_nlwiki
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143354
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140187
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142506
[5]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086490.html
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#GeoShapes_external_data
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143588
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143685
[10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/306241/
[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143571
[12]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)/translation_request_for_cross-wiki_search_results
[13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
[14]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design
[15] http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30787-4
[16] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37311716
[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe
[18] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe





The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates


Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as Easy or volunteer
needed in Phabricator:
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R


Cheers!

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Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
IRC: debt
Wikimedia Foundation
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[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 IRC) if you have any questions or concerns regarding this
maintenance operation, or refer to the Phabricator task (T138778).

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138778

Thanks!
Dan

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Wikimedia Foundation 
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[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 to see if it passes (thought I doubt there will be a lot of issues).

You can follow [1] for progress on enabling those jobs by default, and
[2] for the next step of running MediaWiki unit tests under PHP 7.

Thank you to ops and the CI team for all of their help and work on this :)

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144961
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144962

-- Legoktm

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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
current idas at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tb8g53x15wvhoc5e


> I have a question for the organizers: will the summit be open to anyone or
> will it be invitation-only as it has been in past years? Who decides this?
>

Rachel and I ultimately decide how the Summit registration works.

We are leaning toward invitation-only precisely to support the idea of
"open to anyone". As explained in [0] and [1], we want to reach out to
different audiences that usually haven't got much representation in the
Summit, we have a capacity limit, and we want to avoid that the regular
participants of the Summit takes all seats just because they already know
they want to attend and register sooner.

"Invitation-only" would mean that anyone can fill the form to request
registration free of charge, but their request would need to be accepted in
order to become confirmed participants of the Summit. Another piece of
context is that we are interested in improving remote participation, where
the limitations of event capacity and travel costs don't apply.

[0]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086448.html
("AUDIENCE")
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086468.html


Regarding main topics, I think we should make it easier to log in to
> Wikimedia wikis and control your identity when on-wiki. Specifically,
> supporting login via e-mail address, case-insensitive login, and a
> user-configurable "display name" field that's shown in page histories, on
> user pages, etc.
>

Added to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tb6bztglijowk8x3 (anyone with
suggestions for main Summit topics can do so too).



> I'm interested in volunteering to provide feedback about the upcoming
> summit. I've attended one or two summits in the past and I have thoughts.
>

Please go ahead and share your feedback in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2017. You
can also provide feedback about specific tasks underhttps://
phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit/, and we keep
monitoring wikitech-l.

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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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[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 presentations about applying semantic wikis as well as about
newest developments in the field.

We would also like to remind you of the upcoming end to the early bird
registration registration period on September 14, 2016. Please register
via Tito [0] if you have not done so already.


Important facts reminder:

* Dates: September 28th to 30th 2016 (Wednesday to Friday)
* Location: German Institute for International Educational Research
(DIPF), Schloßstraße 29, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
* Conference page: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2016
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business
representatives and researchers.


News on the program:

* The tutorial program has been announced and made available [1]
* The conference program has now also been announced and made available
[2]. We are very happy that the keynote will be held by Prof. Dr. Sören
Auer of Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information
Systems IAIS, Enterprise Information Systems.
* A social program is also being prepared [3].
* We encourage contributions for poster sessions about semantic wikis;
for a list of topics, see [4]. Please add your proposals by e-mail to
one of the program chairs. (CC)
* Presentations will generally be video and audio recorded and made
available for others after the conference.


Organization:

* Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF)
[5] and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. [6] have become the
official organisers of SMWCon Fall 2016.
* Very special thanks go to Wikimedia Deutschland [7] for being our
platinum as well as ArchiXL [8] for being our gold supporter.


If you have questions you can contact Sabine Melnicki, Kendra Sticht and
Christoph Schindler (Program Chairs), Karsten Hoffmeyer (General Chair)
or Lia Veja (Local Chair) by e-mail (CC).

We will be happy to see you in Frankfurt!

Sabine Melnicki, Kendra Sticht and Christoph Schindler (Program Board)


[0] 
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[2]

[3]

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[6] 
[7] 
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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 welcome:

BRAINSTORMING MAIN TOPICS

Do you have specific proposals for the (say) five main Summit topics that
should be selected? Can you help spreading this question to your contacts
and the venues in our technical community where you are active? All the
suggestions are being collected at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tb6bztglijowk8x3.

For instance, you have gone through a Google Summer of Code project, and
right now you possess a very valuable experience that others haven't
acquired yet, or have forgotten about: the experience of a new developer
dealing for the first time with our collaboration processes, our developer
environment, our documentation, and the people and behaviors in our
community. Your ideas about which main topic should the Summit address are
interesting, and your help spreading the word among other GSoC students,
mentors, and newcomers in general is very important.

Other people reading these lines can apply the same idea to their own case.
Whatever is your background and areas of interest, your perspective and
influence in the definition of the Summit is welcome.

SUMMIT LANDING PAGE

We could use some help on the Summit landing page and related pages. See

Wikimedia Developer Summit Wiki up
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141935

Until now we have got functional wiki pages for Summit participants but no
focus in outreach through those wiki pages at all. Many things could be
done in theory, but what can we realistically do here and now, with the
hands we have? See you in the task?

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