[Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2023-10

[aklapper]

Hi Community Metrics team,

This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.

Accounts created in (2023-10): 392
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2023-10): 1115
Task authors in (2023-10): 555
Users who have closed tasks in (2023-10): 325

Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2023-10): 291

Tasks created in (2023-10): 2403
Tasks closed in (2023-10): 2327
Open and stalled tasks in total: 53760
* Only open tasks in total: 52740
* Only stalled tasks in total: 1020

Median age in days of open tasks by priority:

Unbreak now: 57
Needs Triage: 899
High: 1252
Normal: 1962
Low: 2558
Lowest: 2903

(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)

Differential users who created or updated a patchset in (2023-10): 0

To see the names of the most active task authors:
* Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/
* Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar
* Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs
* See the author names in the "Submitters" panel

TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .

Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor

(via community_metrics.sh on phab1004 at Wed 01 Nov 2023 12:00:42 AM UTC)
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[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Insights - third monthly email

[Birgit Müller]

Hi All,

Welcome to the monthly MediaWiki Insights email!

Enable more people to know MediaWiki and contribute effectively

In the last MW insights email

we gave a preview into the work that is underway to help people feel more
comfortable touching MediaWiki, enable teams and volunteers to contribute
effectively, and retain and grow the number of contributors to MediaWiki in
Wikimedia production (WMF Annual Plan, WE3.2
).
We’ve used the first quarter to invest in code improvements, consultancy
and code review, explore and test approaches and defined three main focus
areas:


   1. Design low-entry-level initiatives for contributions to MediaWiki
   core and a set of extensions, enriched by workshops, improved
   documentation, code review and support to enable more people to feel
   confident contributing to MediaWiki.
   2. Provide consultancy for Wikimedia’s teams in projects that touch
   MediaWiki core domains to help sustain current contributors and to enable
   more people to contribute to MediaWiki effectively.
   3. Invest in code improvements, logging, monitoring and test coverage in
   specific areas to make it easier to debug issues and ease onboarding in
   MediaWiki.

Target audiences are Wikimedia staff and volunteers. For example, as part
of the work above and as a practice from early on, the MediaWiki Platform
team provided code review for around 200 patches submitted by volunteers in
the first quarter (https://w.wiki/7qa3).

The goal is both retention, and growth (a 20% increase in the number of
authors who have submitted >5 patches to a selected set of MediaWiki
repositories in Wikimedia production).

Currently the numbers are trending positive: We can observe a 17% increase
in the number of people who have submitted >5 patches to MediaWiki core
from July 1st - October 30th, 2023 compared to the same time period last
year. However, we’re still at the start of this and it’s too early to cheer
:).

A draft overview on approach, baselines and work underway can now be found
on this page

.

Project snapshot: New database features, new security feature, and Source
Maps now live on all Wikimedia wikis + default in MediaWiki

The Data Persistence team (lead: Amir Sarabadani) is currently
undertaking several
improvements  to the MediaWiki
Rdbms  library’s interface to make it
easier for developers to get database connections and perform common
queries. One improvement is a new database feature that allows extension
developers to specify more cleanly when they need special external
databases (T330590 ). As part of
phasing out accepting and passing around raw SQL in the MediaWiki rdbms
library (T210206 ), there is now
also a new basic expression builder for use in conditions. This work is
done to improve security, readability and to ease onboarding in MediaWiki.
The team will soon create tickets for extensions that build raw SQL to ask
to migrate to expression builders (see this change
 for an example).

If you have questions or already want to get started, T350075
 is the ticket to coordinate the
work and get in touch. Amir Sarabadani, Timo Tijhof and Bartosz Dziewonski
can help with questions.

More on security: There is a new security feature that allows developers to
set the language as x-xss to help find potential cross-site scripting
vulnerabilities. See T340201 for
more information. Many thanks to Lukas Werkmeister for the idea and work on
this! <3

Finally, Source Maps  (already
highlighted in the last MW Insights email) is now live on all Wikimedia
wikis and shipped by default in MediaWiki.

Part of the initial work done by the new MW group is about setting the
teams up to be effective stewards. One upcoming focus of the MW Platform
team is on improving logging, monitoring and test coverage for the
authentication-related components to make it easier to debug issues,
respond to incidents and enable periodic health checks and alerts. See
T348206  for an initial
assessment of the situation and possible improvements.

MediaWiki within Wikimedia’s ecosystem. Next: WikiCon NorthAmerica

Conversations with staff and volunteers on their experiences with
contributing to MediaWiki, challenges and opportunities around MediaWiki
within Wikimedia’s ecosystem are still ongoing. Next “stop” is at WikiCon

[Wikitech-l] Sign up for the first language community meeting on November 17th, 16:00 UTC!

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello all,

The first language community meeting is coming up in a few weeks - November
17th, 16:00 UTC.

If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Community_meetings#Meetings>
[1].

We would like to invite all of you who are involved in creating content or
managing technical aspects across different language communities. This will
be a participant-driven meeting, where we collectively discuss specific
technical issues related to our language wikis and work together to find
possible solutions. This could involve anything from fixing a broken
template on the Kurdish wiki to brainstorming ideas for growing content on
the Tulu Wiktionary, currently in the Wikimedia Incubator, or celebrating
the creation of Fon Wikipedia, to using MinT for content translation.

You can view the meeting structure and add ideas for discussion to the
notes document here: <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-november-2023>
[2]

If you need interpretation support from English to another language, please
let us know by sending an email to sse...@wikimedia.org.

Looking forward to your participation!

Cheers,
Srishti & Jon

[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Community_meetings#Meetings

[2]
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-november-2023

*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikitech-l] Re: partial translation after update

[Andre Klapper]

On Tue, 2023-10-31 at 22:14 +0100, Peter Radisson wrote:
> After updates,

Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication
The topic is out of scope for the wikitech-l@ list.

Thanks,
andre
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[Wikitech-l] partial translation after update

[Peter Radisson]

After updates,

I set the language to "de" but i have the strange effect that not
everything is translated. e.g. i see "contributions" but the rest is in
German.

no idea, i checked the code the translation are complett.

CU
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[Wikitech-l] Re: stopped working after upgrade

[Andre Klapper]

This is not about a Wikimedia wiki but a 3rd party installation so this
thread should be continued on the mediawiki-l@ mailing list instead.

On Tue, 2023-10-31 at 21:54 +0100, Peter Radisson wrote:
> 1. Problem:
> 
> 
> 
> Stopped working, instead code is shown. Other stuff
> like tables seems to work fine.
> 
> what went wrong ?

Is the Cite extension installed and is its right branch (REL1_40 for
MediaWiki 1.40) installed? The "Special:Version" page should tell you.

Cheers,
andre
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https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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[Wikitech-l] stopped working after upgrade

[Peter Radisson]

Am 31.10.23 um 19:50 schrieb Martin Domdey:

Hi!

Tell us about your problems please!


ok,
1. Problem:



Stopped working, instead code is shown. Other stuff
like tables seems to work fine.

what went wrong ?

CU


Kind regards,
Martin



 schrieb am Di., 31. Okt. 2023, 19:34:


Hello List,
i have updated an old wiki to the current 1.40 version but now
i have some strange effects that i do not understand.
Is that the right list to ask for help ?

CU
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[Wikitech-l] Re: odd effects after updates

[Martin Domdey]

Hi!

Tell us about your problems please!

Kind regards,
Martin



 schrieb am Di., 31. Okt. 2023, 19:34:

> Hello List,
> i have updated an old wiki to the current 1.40 version but now
> i have some strange effects that i do not understand.
> Is that the right list to ask for help ?
>
> CU
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[Wikitech-l] odd effects after updates

[Radisson97]

Hello List,
i have updated an old wiki to the current 1.40 version but now
i have some strange effects that i do not understand.
Is that the right list to ask for help ?

CU
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