[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2018-04-11

Hi All, Below are the minutes of this week's TechCom meeting: * IRC Meeting hosted for: MediaWiki's anonymous edit token leaves wiki installations (incl. Wikipedia) open to mass anonymous spam we can't block Minutes:

[Wikitech-l] Reminder: Share you feedback in this Wikimedia survey

Hi everyone, This is a friendly reminder about the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors Survey. *We have only heard from 50 Wikimedia volunteer developers. The survey will close Sunday 22 April 2018.* If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki,

[Wikitech-l] Horizon and CI downtime Tomorrow, 2018-04-13

    Next Friday we'll be upgrading our OpenStack cluster.  The upgrade should not interrupt any existing tools or instances, but during the upgrade it will be impossible to create, delete, or modify WMCS VMs.     I'll start the process at around 14:00 UTC (7AM PDT).  The complete upgrade may

Re: [Wikitech-l] In what order are "Pages that link here" sorted?

They are ordered by page_id, so roughly older pages (in order of creation) will appear earlier (*it is more complicated than that, but look at the source code for details): includes/specials/SpecialWhatlinkshere.php . There is not a record of the timestamp of when a page link relationship was

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2018.04 release

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2018.04. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.29 and 1.30 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major changes or important

[Wikitech-l] In what order are "Pages that link here" sorted?

In what order are "Pages that link here" sorted? The follow doesn't seem to be by date-used or name: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Retired I'd like to get a list of reasonable recent ones for a in-class project

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Core Platform team

Thank you Victoria for this announcement. For those who, like me, didn't know about the platform evolution cross-departemental program, it might be interesting to have a look at the the dedicated wiki[1]. I didn't read it all yet, and there might be more relevant resources out there, to which