[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Café online meeting for January 2020 with focus on the 2030 strategy

[Pine W]

Hello colleagues,

The February 2020 Wikimedia Café meetup will occur on 15 February 2020
at 8:30 AM PST / 11:30 AM EST / 4:30 PM UTC / 10 PM IST. The date is
earlier than usual in the month due to scheduling constraints.

This month's meetup will focus on the 2030 strategy recommendations,
and will be divided into two discussions of one hour each.

More information regarding the agenda and links to strategy documents
are available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café.

As usual, the meeting style for the Café will emphasize discussion
rather than presentation. People are welcome to participate as
listeners only if they prefer.

Please see the page on Meta for more information about the Café.
Please watch the page for any updates, particularly to the schedule or
the agenda. Signing up for the meeting is optional, but is helpful to
the organizers so that we can estimate how many people will attend.
Signing up for the meeting also informs us who we should notify
individually if there are significant changes.

If there are any problems with connecting to the meeting or if you
have any questions or comments then please write on the Meta talk
page.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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[Wikitech-l] Comment regarding technical newsletters

[Pine W]

Hello colleagues,

I have a brief comment regarding technical newsletters. I have in mind
Tech News and the Growth Team's update newsletters. I find these to be
helpful and I appreciate the work that goes into writing them. Thank
you to the people who work on these, including translators.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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[Wikitech-l] BREAKING CHANGES to Action API parameter validation

[Brad Jorsch (Anomie)]

This notice is being sent to wikitech-l for the benefit of technical
subscribers who aren't subscribed to that list, due to concern that these
changes may affect many API clients. For notification of all breaking
changes to the Action API, please subscribe at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce.

Error codes for parameter validation errors are changing. Among others,
"noX" becomes "missingparam" and "unknown_X" becomes "badvalue". See the
full announcement at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2020-February/000151.html
for details.

Various unusual values for integer-type parameters will no longer be
accepted, basically anything that isn't an optional ASCII sign ('+' or '-')
followed by ASCII digits. See
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2020-February/000152.html
for details.

Both of these changes will most likely go out to Wikimedia wikis with
1.35.0-wmf.19. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap
for a schedule.

-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-l] Search Platform Office Hours Tomorrow!—Feb 5th, 2020

[Trey Jones]

The Search Platform Team
 usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search!


Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.


Details for our next meeting:

Date: Wednesday, Feb 5th, 2020

Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET

Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours

Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww

Join by phone in the US: +1 786-701-6904 PIN: 262 122 849#


Hope to talk to you tomorrow!

—Trey

Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-5 / EST
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[Wikitech-l] (very) Brief WMCS + wikitech outage Monday 2020-02-10, 15:00 UTC

[Andrew Bogott]

On Monday we'll be restarting the database server that supports most 
WMCS services.  During the restart various things will fail: Wikitech 
pages will fail to load, OpenStack API calls will fail, etc.


In all cases if you encounter an issue you can just count to 20 and try 
again, by which time things will most likely be back up. Active VMs, 
tools and other things hosted on toolforge or cloud-VPS should be 
unaffected.


The restart will happen at 15:00 UTC on Monday -- that's 7AM Pacific Time.


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