Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2017: Students' summaries

[Никита Волобуев]

I am really happy to be one of Google Code-in 2017 participants working on
Wikimedia tasks!

I am glad to see that this year more students were participating and more
tasks were completed! GCI16 was great, GCI17 is even better!

Once again, thanks to all mentors! You were doing a lot of hard work,
putting so much passion into it. Thank you for creating and mentoring
tasks, reviewing patches, answering questions asked by students and
providing tips! Your guidance throughout the process is highly appreciated!

Special thanks for administrators who worked hard organizing this event! It
wouldn't be possible without you!

It was great experience for me  to
participate in Google Code-in 2017. I liked being contributor here, that's
why I decided to continue my work after the contest too!

Thank you for everything again!

Respectfully,
Nikita Volobuev
(also known as Phantom42 on Phabricator and IRC)

ср, 17 янв. 2018 г. в 21:50, Florian Schmidt <
florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de>:

> Thanks to any single mentor and any person, who interacted with the
> students, for your work! Hope it was quite of fun for you as well :D
>
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: Wikitech-l [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im
> Auftrag von Andre Klapper
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2018 20:46
> An: Wikimedia developers 
> Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2017: Students' summaries
>
> After seven weeks, Google Code-in 2017 ended.
>
> Wikimedia has seen 760 completed tasks (last year: 453). 300 students
> (last year: 192) finished at least one task (out of 686 who worked on
> Wikimedia tasks). Supported by 51 active mentors (last year: 46).
> Thanks everybody who took part - students, mentors, admins, everyone who
> helped sort out issues and answer questions, Google.
>
> Numerous contributors have blogged about their experience. Reading these
> posts is a good use of time to get reminded why free and open source
> software communities can be a beautiful:
>
>
> https://www.codebucket.de/blog/contest/2018/01/17/google-code-in-2017-and-the-future.html
> https://medium.com/@Albert221/the-end-of-gci2017-or-maybe-not-d82758d359b1
>
> https://struggling-math-tech.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-experiences-with-google-code-in.html
> https://blog.phandev.net/posts/gci17
>
> http://gciexpreincewithwikimedia.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-exprience-with-wikimedia.html
>
> https://omkarfarmax.blogspot.com/2018/01/google-code-in-best-thing-ever-happened.html
>
> https://googlegcitaskanurag.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-experience-with-google-and.html
> https://www.arefly.com/google-code-in-2017-wikimedia/
>
> For the complete list, see
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017#Wrap-up_blog_posts
>
> Thanks,
> andre
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> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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[Wikitech-l] 2018-01-17 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

[Grace Gellerman]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-01-17#Reading_Web

= *2018-**0**1-17* =


== Callouts ==
* Grafana will be migrated to support native LDAP on Feb 12 2018. This
means the eventual demise for grafana-admin.wikimedia.org. Announcement to
be posted to engineering@ and wikitech@.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170150

== Audiences ==
=== Readers ===
 iOS native app 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**Continuing work on 5.8 - synced reading lists

 Android native app 
* Blocked by: weird RESTBase cache behavior:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184833
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** On track to release update with performance enhancements for Reading
Lists (and "default" list, for feature parity with iOS)
** Continuing testing of reading list syncing.

 Reading Web 
* Blocked by:
** Release engineering - need to setup some CI on pdf service
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179552
Services - soon we will be looking at how to apply different styles to
pdf service  (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181680) and how to use
firejail to limit resources used by chromium render service? (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180626) - we may need some guidance.
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**We will be releasing a revamp of the mobile settings page. It also brings
structure to the mobile beta meaning it will inform the user what features
are in beta at any given time. (see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182217)
**Added instrumentation to print to pdf button to understand our users
better (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181297)


   -

 Reading Infrastructure 
* Blocked by:
** Services on code review for
https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/944
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**Switchover to MCS summary implementation is delayed until after Dev
Summit week.

= Maps =
* Updates: None

 Multimedia 
* Updates: None

 Discovery 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by: Security for GlobalPreferences review
* Blocking:
* Updates: analysing top 10 proposals

=== Contributors ===
 Editing 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

 Parsing 
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/402455/ has some changes to how
Parsoid handles the interaction between templates and responsive wrappers.
Heads up to Parsoid clients to take a look at that patch and +1 if it
doesn't affect you
** We will roll out changes this week to replace  with  for ref
linkbacks ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T45094)

 Global Collaboration 
* Blocked by: Security on 5, but waiting for all-hands to talk
* Blocking: Ops on Flow dumps probably; haven't checked in with Matt/Ariel
about this recently
* Updates:
** Flow respects robot policies (noindex) now

 UI Standardization 
** OOUI v0.25.1 released
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md
*** Renaming to unified “OOUI” in code documentation and comments
*** Remove buggy `translateZ` hack on scrollable PanelLayouts – keep an eye
on scrolling perf in Blink/Webkit if you use PanelLayout
* Ongoing:
** OOUI & based products:
*** icons: Unify, refine and align to WikimediaUI Style Guide
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432 – first patches in:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/402757/


== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Found some Event data missing for January 3 through January 7.  If your
reports/dashboards look weird, rerun them:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/Reportupdater#Re-runs
** Clickstream blogpost:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/16/wikipedia-rabbit-hole-clickstream/
** working on new APIs to report pageviews per project per country (sorting
out ISO codes and data shape)
** testing our java 1.8 upgrade in labs
** Working with Brandon on TLS
** Meltdown reboots continue

=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Various CiviCRM improvements
** Making our Amazon Pay SDK fork support TCP proxy
** Re-starting work on new API for our main credit card processor
** Stats projects:
*** Andrew Green's druid banner impressions lib:
https://github.com/AndrewGreen/centralnotice_analytics
*** talked with Analytics, planning to use EventLogging for banner and
donatewiki stats

=== MediaWiki Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
* Triaged/updated RFCs
* Multi-Content Revisions:
** Patches under review:
*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/380669/
*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/402932/
*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/393929/
* cleanupUsersWithNoId: Wikibase blocker has movement.
* Comment table: Schema change looks even closer to done.
* A decision has been reached on ExternalStore de-PHP-serialization; patch
still needs review
* Third-party developer support Phab tasks coordinated with Tech
Collaboration:
** 

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2017: Students' summaries

[Florian Schmidt]

Thanks to any single mentor and any person, who interacted with the students, 
for your work! Hope it was quite of fun for you as well :D

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Wikitech-l [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von 
Andre Klapper
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2018 20:46
An: Wikimedia developers 
Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2017: Students' summaries

After seven weeks, Google Code-in 2017 ended.

Wikimedia has seen 760 completed tasks (last year: 453). 300 students (last 
year: 192) finished at least one task (out of 686 who worked on Wikimedia 
tasks). Supported by 51 active mentors (last year: 46).
Thanks everybody who took part - students, mentors, admins, everyone who helped 
sort out issues and answer questions, Google.

Numerous contributors have blogged about their experience. Reading these posts 
is a good use of time to get reminded why free and open source software 
communities can be a beautiful:

https://www.codebucket.de/blog/contest/2018/01/17/google-code-in-2017-and-the-future.html
https://medium.com/@Albert221/the-end-of-gci2017-or-maybe-not-d82758d359b1
https://struggling-math-tech.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-experiences-with-google-code-in.html
https://blog.phandev.net/posts/gci17
http://gciexpreincewithwikimedia.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-exprience-with-wikimedia.html
https://omkarfarmax.blogspot.com/2018/01/google-code-in-best-thing-ever-happened.html
https://googlegcitaskanurag.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-experience-with-google-and.html
https://www.arefly.com/google-code-in-2017-wikimedia/

For the complete list, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017#Wrap-up_blog_posts

Thanks,
andre
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http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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[Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2017: Students' summaries

[Andre Klapper]

After seven weeks, Google Code-in 2017 ended.

Wikimedia has seen 760 completed tasks (last year: 453). 300 students
(last year: 192) finished at least one task (out of 686 who worked on
Wikimedia tasks). Supported by 51 active mentors (last year: 46).
Thanks everybody who took part - students, mentors, admins, everyone
who helped sort out issues and answer questions, Google.

Numerous contributors have blogged about their experience. Reading
these posts is a good use of time to get reminded why free and open
source software communities can be a beautiful:

https://www.codebucket.de/blog/contest/2018/01/17/google-code-in-2017-and-the-future.html
https://medium.com/@Albert221/the-end-of-gci2017-or-maybe-not-d82758d359b1
https://struggling-math-tech.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-experiences-with-google-code-in.html
https://blog.phandev.net/posts/gci17
http://gciexpreincewithwikimedia.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-exprience-with-wikimedia.html
https://omkarfarmax.blogspot.com/2018/01/google-code-in-best-thing-ever-happened.html
https://googlegcitaskanurag.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-experience-with-google-and.html
https://www.arefly.com/google-code-in-2017-wikimedia/

For the complete list, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017#Wrap-up_blog_posts

Thanks,
andre
-- 
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http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-01-08

[Chris Koerner]

Hello,
This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week
starting 2018-01-08.

== Highlights==
* Latvian and Arabic Wikipedia's enabled mapframe on their respective
wiki's (completed by community volunteers) [0] [1]

== Discussions ==

=== Search ===
* David tuned the wikidata fulltext search similarity parameters [2]
* Stas fixed an issue with the IDs option in forceSearchIndex.php is broken
[3]
* Trey finished his initial analysis of phonetic algorithms available in
Elasticsearch. [4]

=== Portal ===
* The portal's stats and translations were updated on January 8, 2018 via
our mostly automated process [5] [6]
* Jan updated "liguru" to "lìgure" on the Wikipedia portal [7]

== Did you know? ==
* Last October, the President of Kazakhstan announced that the country
would switch from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet.[8] As a result, over the
course of about 100 years, the writing system for Kazakh will have changed
from Arabic to Latin to Cyrillic and back to Latin. Several Turkic
languages[9] spoken in former Soviet Republics have gone through similar
shifts, including Azerbaijani,[10] Turkmen,[11] and Uzbek [12]—with the
most recent shift to Latin for some beginning in the 1990s. Thus some
speakers of those languages lived through all three changes to their
official writing system.


== FY 2017-18 Q3 (Jan-Mar) goals ==
This status was last updated 2018-01-08. [13]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183981
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183764
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182293
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183197
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Overview_of_Phonetic_Algorithm_Performance
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180772
[8]
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kazakhstan:_President_Nazarbayev_signs_decree_to_change_Kazakh_characters_from_Cyrillic_to_Latin-based_script
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_alphabet
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmen_alphabet
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_alphabet
[13]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2018-01-08#FY_2017-18_Q3_(Jan-Mar)_goals
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Discovery weekly update.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly

The archive of all 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


Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Potential 1 day hackathon in London on February 3

[John Lubbock]

Here is the event page for the talk in the evening following the hackathon:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-wikipedia-tickets-42271530285


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+44 (0) 203 372 0767



Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
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Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.

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Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*

On 17 January 2018 at 10:57, John Lubbock 
wrote:

> Hello developers,
>
> I would like to gauge the community's interest in taking part in a 1 day
> hackathon in London on February 3. It's a bit short notice, but we have
> been offered 1 day during a more general hackathon on the future of Wikis.
> It's going under the general title of Darvoz (Portugese for 'to give
> voice') and Katherine Maher will be in London during that evening and will
> be giving a talk at the same venue from 7-9.
>
> So I would like to see how many developers would be interested to come
> down and join in a hackathon and attend the talk in the evening. At the
> moment, it's undecided what the focus of the hackathon would be, but that's
> why I would like to see if any community members could come and take part,
> and potentially help me to organise the day. Please let me know if you are
> interested and if you could come to London (if you might need somewhere to
> stay the night, or if you might need travel expenses to get there) for that
> day.
>
> Here's the darvoz.org site.
>
> John Lubbock
>
> Communications Coordinator
>
> Wikimedia UK
>
> +44 (0) 203 372 0767 <+44%2020%203372%200767>
>
>
>
> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
> Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1,
> Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.
>
> Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The
> Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
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> for its contents.*
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[Wikitech-l] Brain storming for the DevSummit: Evolving the MdiaWiki Architecture

[Daniel Kinzler]

Hi all!

TechCom decided to use this week's IRC discussion slot for a brain storming
session about Evolving the MediaWiki Architecture. "MediaWiki Architecture" is
supposed to be interpreted broadly here - anything that helps us to manage and
serve content is in scope.

The idea is to provide input for the corresponding workshop session at the
summit, in which we will identify focus areas for technical development for the
years to come. You can find more information about the session on phabricator,
please provide input there as well: .

The IRC session will take place in #wikimedia-office on Wednesday January 17,
21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).

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Wikimedia Deutschland
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[Wikitech-l] Potential 1 day hackathon in London on February 3

[John Lubbock]

Hello developers,

I would like to gauge the community's interest in taking part in a 1 day
hackathon in London on February 3. It's a bit short notice, but we have
been offered 1 day during a more general hackathon on the future of Wikis.
It's going under the general title of Darvoz (Portugese for 'to give
voice') and Katherine Maher will be in London during that evening and will
be giving a talk at the same venue from 7-9.

So I would like to see how many developers would be interested to come down
and join in a hackathon and attend the talk in the evening. At the moment,
it's undecided what the focus of the hackathon would be, but that's why I
would like to see if any community members could come and take part, and
potentially help me to organise the day. Please let me know if you are
interested and if you could come to London (if you might need somewhere to
stay the night, or if you might need travel expenses to get there) for that
day.

Here's the darvoz.org site.

John Lubbock

Communications Coordinator

Wikimedia UK

+44 (0) 203 372 0767



Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1,
Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.

Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The
Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*


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