[Wikitech-l] Readers Monthly update for January 2018

Hello, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for January 2018. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Discussions== === Web === * Download PDF functionality limited to versions of Android which support PDFs. During our first iteration of the

[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-01-29

Hello again, Below you'll find the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-01-29. == Highlights== * Several members of the Search Platform team participated in the annual Developer Summit held January 22-23, 2018 in Berkeley, California. [0] * During the WMF's All

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Participate in Google User Research in 2018

Also do note that they are truly listening to you. So any feedback you give will improve gerrit and may also change how the UI will be. They are always listening behind the scenes. On Friday, 2 February 2018, 17:16:10 GMT, wrote: Hi, Google's doing some

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Participate in Google User Research in 2018

Hi, Google's doing some research into Gerrit and is looking for some participants in a research study. Considering how critical Gerrit is to our work, I thought people might be interested in participating. They will be doing video/audio sessions with users remotely (I'm assuming something via

Re: [Wikitech-l] (Large) Discrepancies between API-Statistics and Stepwise API-based extraction [Update]

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:21 AM, Rüdiger Gleim wrote: > => Is my assumpting correct that the sum of all Revisions queried via > api.php?action=query=revisions= should match the statistics > number of revisions? > No, the "edits" number also includes deleted revisions.

[Wikitech-l] Intro to Performance talk from Readers Monthly December 2017

Hello! I'll keep this speedy. Ian Marlier from the Wikimedia Foundation's Performance team presented an Intro to Performance last month at the Readers monthly meeting. Check it out! *YouTube:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCOOh7eJ08k *WebM:*

[Wikitech-l] Special:Export was overloading enwiki databases; limits have been set

Exporting pages on en.wikipedia may result on a failure, this is being investigated right now. For stability reasons, time to export pages has been temporarily limited to avoid an worse outage, afecting regular page views and edits. While we do not have right now any advice regarding changing

[Wikitech-l] Test coverage reports for patchsets

Hi, I've been working on a tool, phpunit-patch-coverage[0], that tries to provide test coverage reports for patches before they are merged[1]. Since it takes 2-3 hours to do a full coverage report for MediaWiki core, the tool figures out what files were modified, and runs those tests. For now

[Wikitech-l] (Large) Discrepancies between API-Statistics and Stepwise API-based extraction [Update]

Hello, thanks to Brad for the information regarding the discrepancies between the actual numbers fetched from the API and the Statistics which stem from a dedicated (but not necessarily sync) table. Running initSiteStats.php --update --active --use-master solved most issues. Since I do not