Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

[Brian Wolff]

On Friday, November 17, 2017, Quim Gil  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Technical Collaboration team proposes the creation of a developer
> support channel focusing on newcomers, as part of our Onboarding New
> Developer program. We are proposing to create a site based on Discourse
> (starting with a pilot in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org) and to point
the
> many existing scattered channels there.
>
> This is an initial proposal for a pilot. If the pilot is successful, we
> will move it production. For that to happen we still need to sync well
with
> Wikimedia Cloud Services, Operations and the Wikimedia technical
community.
>
> Please check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse and share your
> feedback.
>
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What does point existing channels to discouse mean exactly? Are you
planning to shutdown any existing channels? If so, which ones?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

[Johan Jönsson]

Hey everyone,

Just a quick reminder that if you want to post a proposal, you
probably want to do it over the weekend:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey

Make sure the Community Tech team works on the most worthwhile thing
they could be working on. (:

Click on the individual categories to post a proposal.

//Johan Jönsson
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[Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

[Quim Gil]

Hi,

The Technical Collaboration team proposes the creation of a developer
support channel focusing on newcomers, as part of our Onboarding New
Developer program. We are proposing to create a site based on Discourse
(starting with a pilot in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org) and to point the
many existing scattered channels there.

This is an initial proposal for a pilot. If the pilot is successful, we
will move it production. For that to happen we still need to sync well with
Wikimedia Cloud Services, Operations and the Wikimedia technical community.

Please check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse and share your
feedback.

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[Wikitech-l] Help test longer edit summaries (and other comments) on Beta Cluster

[Brad Jorsch (Anomie)]

I've just now enable the feature flag on the Beta Cluster[1] that allows
MediaWiki to store comments longer than 255 bytes.

The web UI has not been updated to allow longer comments in places where it
enforces a limit, such as the edit summary box. But if you use the API to
edit, or perform page moves or do other things where long comments could be
entered and were truncated, you should now find that they're truncated at
1000 Unicode characters rather than 255 bytes.

Please test it out! If you find errors, or places in core features (not
comments in extensions such as SecurePoll, AbuseFilter, CheckUser, or Flow)
where *new* comments are still being truncated to 255 bytes, or places
where comments aren't showing up at all, please let me know. You can reply
to this message or post a task in Phabricator and add me as a subscriber.

If things go well, we'll look at rolling this out to production wikis once
the schema changes to the production databases are complete. See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174569 to follow progress there.

If anyone is interested in submitting patches for the web UI to reflect the
changed length limits, please do. I'll try to review them if you add me as
a reviewer.


 [1]: https://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

[Bryan Davis]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:15 PM, John Elliot V  wrote:
> 2. For duplicated content it would be handy if you could define a bunch
> of "variables" down the bottom of a page and then reference them from
> elsewhere. I am aware of templates, but those are overkill and difficult
> to maintain per my use case (my use case is documenting the "purpose" of
> a computer, I duplicate this in various places, but don't want to
> maintain templates for that).

This sounds like something that you could do with
. Citations are really
just footnotes and each can be named when defined and then reused by
reference at other places in the same article. There is a example of
this at 
.

Bryan
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Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki train for 1.31.0-wmf.8 is on hold due to a database failure

[Greg Grossmeier]

> There was a badly timed database failure today that has caused all
> deployments to be on hold until the situation is resolved.

The database incident[0] is resolved and we will resume the MW train on
this coming Monday to catch up.

Best,

Greg

[0] 
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171116-s5-dewiki-wikidata

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[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar, 2017-11-15

[Daniel Kinzler]

Hello all!

Here are the minutes from this week's meeting:


* Marko Obrovac joined the Technical Committee. We are looking forward to
working with him. Welcome Marko!

* Last Call: RFC on imported user names
. After the public discussion on
November 15, it was agreed that this RFC should enter the last call period. If
no pertinent concerns remain unaddressed by November 29, this RFC will be
approved for implementation.

* Next week’s RFC discussion: Bump PHP requirement to 7.0 in MW 1.31
. This is a reiteration of the RFC
discussion from a few weeks ago, which ended with a last call for the proposal
to go to PHP 5.6 for MW 1.31. The last call did not lead to approval, due to a
suggestion made by Anomie, namely to go for a subset of PHP 7 that is supposed
by hhvm in default mode, without the PHP7 flag set.

As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office on Wednesday, at 2pm PST / 23:00 CET / 22:00 UTC.

* Roan is experimenting with RemexHTML for tag stripping


You can also find our meeting minutes at


See also the TechCom RFC board
.

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