[Wikitech-l] @author annotations in files in the mediawiki codebase

I noticed that core files have @author annotations. My take on this is as follows: Any active codebase (such as mediawiki) sees constant change and code is refactored, rewritten, renamed, files moved around, split up, etc. that the only meaningful interperation of "@author" would be someone

[Wikitech-l] +2 request for Ladsgroup (Amir)

Hi, Ladsgroup filed a request[1] for +2 in mediawiki/* repos that I missed until now, and hadn't been sent to this mailing list. Please comment if you haven't already and I'll close it in a few days. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165860 -- Legoktm

[Wikitech-l] Slower responses with multiple app servers

Follow on to previous email chain improperly named "Setting up multiple Parsoid servers behind load balancer". I'm getting much slower response times in a setup with multiple app servers behind an HAProxy load balancer, versus the same setup with just a single app server behind the same load

[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-06-05

This is the weekly update for the Discovery team. == Discussions == === Search === * Upgraded kibana to elasticsearch 5.3.3 [0] === Analysis === * Fixed an issue where caching update caused stats to no longer get logged on maps dashboard [1] * Used the search event logs to find currently

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Changes to Product and Technology departments at the Foundation

Multimedia was recently moved to the Reading (now Readers) vertical. To the best of my knowledge that isn’t changing. On June 12, 2017 at 12:52:44 PM, Pine W (wiki.p...@gmail.com) wrote: James: thanks for asking; I'm copying that question to the Wikitech list. While we're on that topic, what's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Changes to Product and Technology departments at the Foundation

James: thanks for asking; I'm copying that question to the Wikitech list. While we're on that topic, what's happening to multimedia? I believe that at one time there was a multimedia team, and I could understand how pairing multimedia with maps in the same team could make sense. If multimedia is

[Wikitech-l] New: ApiParse useskin option (Breaking change: OutputPage:enableTOC removed)

Hi all, Last month I did a minor refactor of Parser, ApiParse, and OutputPage to better deal with module loading. Specifically to resolve T130632 ("Needless loading of mediawiki.toc on mobile views.") * OutputPage: Hardcoded some of modules in OutputPage::output. – Moved to Skin with

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [AI] ORES operating at slightly reduced capacity

-- Forwarded message -- From: "Aaron Halfaker" Date: Jun 12, 2017 12:00 PM Subject: [AI] ORES operating at slightly reduced capacity To: "Application of Artificial Intelligence and other advanced computing strategies to Wikimedia Projects"

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 167, Issue 15

Hello can you come join us on IRC on channel #wikimedia-ai on webchat.freenode.net Zppix Volunteer developer for WMF enwp.org/User:Zppix On Jun 12, 2017 7:36 AM, "Kaartic Sivaraam" wrote: > On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 12:00 +,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 167, Issue 15

On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 12:00 +, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > On 8 Jun 2017 01:42, "zppix e" wrote: > > Hello, > Wikimedia's  AI team (side note: im unaffliated with wmf, was gaven > permission to send this email)  will need help with setting up