[Wikitech-l] Testwiki2 is now moved from group0 to group1

in the phabricator task: [2] So starting from his week, test2wiki will get new releases a day later (in Wednesdays). [0]: https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182243 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182326 Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] Normalization of change tag schema

/dashboard/db/mysql?panelId=3=1=1531757700702=1532967300702=eqiad%20prometheus%2Fops=db1106=9104 s2: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/mysql?panelId=3=1=1532794561870=1532967361872=eqiad%20prometheus%2Fops=db1090=13312 Best On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 13:13, Amir Sarabadani wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] Normalization of change tag schema

Hey, Using the new table as backend of Special:Tags (and similar APIs) is now enabled everywhere. Contact me if there's any issues with that. Best On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 19:17, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hello, > One update regarding this. > We enabled using the new table for Spe

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] Normalization of change tag schema

derung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt > für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > ___ >

[Wikitech-l] Wikilabels now enforces SSL

the bug. Also, If you encounter any (new) issue, Please let me know immediately. More info: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184437 [1]: https://labels.wmflabs.org/ Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158

[Wikitech-l] Breaking change in ORES API: "wp10" models are renamed to "articlequality"

https://ores.wikimedia.org/v3/scores/enwiki/855137823 For more information see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196240 Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine

[Wikitech-l] ORES repositories are now moved to wikimedia organization in github

-- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de

[Wikitech-l] Change tag reading from the new column in the beta cluster

29 | | 217816 | 633983 |384010 | mobile web edit |16 | | 217815 | 633983 |384010 | mobile edit |15 | ++--+---+---+---+ 10 rows in set (0.00 sec) Thank you! Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikime

[Wikitech-l] ORES support checklist for communities

or request new features, feel free to file a phabricator ticket tagged with ores-support-checklist ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ores-support-checklist/) Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] Normalization of change tag schema

to move forward on bigger wikis next week. Best On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 at 09:19, Jon Robson wrote: >  > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 3:42 AM Derk-Jan Hartman < > d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > That is an impressive difference ! > > > > On Mo

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Translations on hold until further notice

There's no train next week. It's dc switch over. Best On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 20:49 Chase Pettet wrote: > We managed to successfully get changes rolling through CI on Wednesday. > Translations are being merged but not deployed nightly, and will go out > with the normal train (next week?).

Re: [Wikitech-l] problematic use of "Declined" in Phabricator

My two cents: I would personally make those type of tickets as "stalled", "stalled" basically for me means blocked and these type of tasks are blocked on human resources, some miracles might happen and we might end up having enough resources to unblock it but until that day it's stalled IMO. OTOH

[Wikitech-l] Three open CoC amendment proposals for your input

Hello, Three amendments of the code of conduct is waiting for your input. Feel free to chime in, the committee will close them soon. # 1: Recommendation to modify the appeals process: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uay0vz6no8ayac3m # 2: Proposal amendment: Committee should serve for one

[Wikitech-l] Enforcing ORES limit of parallel connections per IP

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160692 and file a task against ORES project in phabricator in case anything is wrong. Happy scoring! Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Honor roll for Nuria Ruiz!

Well deserved Nuria, Her service in the code of conduct committee has been irreplaceable. Keep on being great. Best On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:15 PM Dan Foy wrote: > Wow, that's great! > > Congratulations Nuria! > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:32 PM Victoria Coleman > wrote: > > > Hi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enforcing ORES limit of parallel connections per IP

Yes, thank you for pointing out. I made https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204956 Best On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 07:10, Chad wrote: > Wouldn't it make to send a 429 instead of 408? > > -Chad > > On Sep 19, 2018 1:37 PM, "Amir Sarabadani" > wrote: > > Hello, &

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with mw.org content!

I blocked the user for 31 hours, tell me if the user continued. Is it okay if I nuke all of the translations? Best On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:31 PM Strainu wrote: > Hi, > > A certain user, blocked on Romanian Wikipedia for his original > research, is using mediawiki.org to push some vere

Re: [Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

One thing I want to point out is when she joined, we had only 16 engineers in site reliability engineering [1] but now it's 26 [2]. Running the fifth most visited website and the greatest thing you can find in the internet with only 16 engineers is CRAZY. Such well-needed expansion shows its

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Gerrit now automatically adds reviewers

Hello, This is Amir, Chair of the code of conduct committee, talking on behalf of it. We received several reports about the discussion happening here which we will handle and act accordingly but in the mean time, we would like to remind everyone to follow CoC [1] and be more mindful of what they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nominating Lucas Werkmeister to have +2 rights on mediawiki/*

He now has the rights. Congrats Lucas! With great power, comes great responsibility. Stuff like that. Best On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 13:24, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hey, > I nominated Lucas Werkmeister to have +2 rights on mediawiki/* > > See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deprecation of tag_summary table

Hey, Another update. Starting from deployment of wmf.9 tag_summary won't get updated and will be dropped soon. Please make sure your tool doesn't use table any more otherwise you might end up having out-dated data or errors. Best On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 15:45, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > He

[Wikitech-l] wmgMonologChannels

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60676 [4] Like LoggerFactory::getInstance( 'ORES' ) Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Men

[Wikitech-l] Deprecation of tag_summary table

and sorry for any inconvenience. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/95584 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185355 Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de

[Wikitech-l] Nominating Lucas Werkmeister to have +2 rights on mediawiki/*

Hey, I nominated Lucas Werkmeister to have +2 rights on mediawiki/* See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210836 for more information. Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] Normalization of change tag schema

Hey, The last update on this thread. The day has finally come, there is no part of mediawiki that points out to ct_tag column. This column will be dropped in the next couple of weeks. It had only empty value for a several weeks already. Best On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 13:47, Amir Sarabadani wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins is broken on master mediawiki core and extensions

It's now fixed. Best On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 11:51, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hello, > Due to an issue in stylelint library, all patches now fail on npm tests. > The reason is one of dependencies of stylelint is broken so there is not > much we can do until the new release gets pick

[Wikitech-l] Jenkins is broken on master mediawiki core and extensions

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213249 Best -- Amir Sarabadani Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns

[Wikitech-l] Accepted CoC amendment: Committee serves for one year

Hello, As outlined in the CoC itself [1]. The committee would close amendments after community feedback and this one [2] was straightforward and hence was closed and added to the CoC [3] that means any new committee serves until May 20th of every year. There is another one left that we need to

[Wikitech-l] Help us determine appealing body for Code of conduct resolutions

Hello, Per CoC[1], the appealing processes follows like this: "Only resolutions (such as bans) that last more than one week may be appealed by people who were sanctioned. Reported victims can always appeal. To appeal a decision of the Committee, the reported offender or reported victim may

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Gerrit privilege policy

I just want to point out that this wasn't "handed down by a CTO", it was a RFC [1] that and was open for discussion to everyone and was discussed extensively (and the RFC changed because of these discussions, look at the history of the page), then had an IRC meeting that was also open to everyone,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community-Engineering gaps as defined in configuration

emself > <http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself>) > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

Hey, I'm not WMF so I'm not the best one to answer the question but I think your statement is overgeneralizing. Some teams have more resource constraints than the other ones and treating all of WMF as a big monolith doesn't seem to be a good approach. I think you should be more precise and give a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Vandalism

It's a security ticket. Only people who are added explicitly can see it. Best On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:47 AM Alaa Sarhan wrote: > Getting Access Denied on that ticket (user alaa_wmde). know why? > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 06:54, Eran Rosenthal wrote: > > > I couldn't catch anyone in the IRC

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata] URL shortener for the Wikimedia projects will be available on April 11th

Hey, This is live now, you can use it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener Best On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:14 PM Léa Lacroix wrote: > *(apologies for crost-posting - feel free to share this announcement in > your communities)* > > Hello all, > > Having a service providing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thank you Tuesday

I want to thank Krinkle (Timo) for his tireless work to improve performance of Wikipedia. For example this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219342 Best On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 7:54 PM Huji Lee wrote: > I want to echo Timo (Krinkle) and thank Daimona for their fantastic work on >

[Wikitech-l] Code of conduct committee call for new members

Hello all, It's coming close to time for annual appointments of community members to serve on the Code of Conduct (CoC) committee. The Code of Conduct Committee is a team of five trusted individuals plus five auxiliary members with diverse affiliations responsible for general enforcement of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:02 PM Strainu wrote: > - ContentTranslation v1 (obsolete now, has been unmaintained for 2 > years while in production) > - UploadWizard (2 with high priority, 40 with normal, a few dozens > low, hundreds more untriaged): this is the project that got us out of > the

[Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs icons

Hey, This is not big enough to have its own announcement but since it'll go live this week and this hasn't made it to this week's Tech news, here's a quick heads up. Icons of FlaggedRevs extension (Pending changes) [0] were introduced 12 years ago and hasn't been changed since. I started to

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Patch-For-Review" tag in phabricator

lently > > which > > > will spare people the email spam. > > > > > > > I would love to have this done :-) > > I already have lots of phab traffic, so keeping this one to a minimum > would > > be nice! > > > > Thanks! > > Manuel. >

[Wikitech-l] CI jobs run time

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225496 [5]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/513106 [6]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225248 [7]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F29585158 Have a lovely day -- Amir Sarabadani (he/him) Software engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer

Re: [Wikitech-l] The revisions watching database is blocked for ten hours

That's probably regression introduced in wmf.10 because hewiki and cawiki get the new versions sooner. I don't know if this should be train blocker or not. Best ‪On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 2:19 PM ‫יגאל חיטרון‬‎ wrote:‬ > Hello. At least ten hours the revisions watching database is blocked. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Code of Conduct committee candidates

on thanking Nuria and Rosalie for their service and welcome Tonina and MusikAnimal to the main members of the committee. Best On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:13 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hello, > The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee > candidates are (In alphabeti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding and fixing cyclic dependencies

to work with: the number of > classes in > tangles. > > That was great, but still didn't tell me where to start. Graph-tool was > still > not fast enough to deal with millions of cycles, and even if it had been, > that > data wouldn't be very useful. I needed some smart heuristi

[Wikitech-l] "Patch-For-Review" tag in phabricator

Hey, You probably know about the tag, it has been added automatically to phabricator tickets when someone makes a patch to gerrit and mentions the pabricator ticket (For example [0]). The problem is when the patch gets merged the tag doesn't get removed automatically because there might be other

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Patch-For-Review" tag in phabricator

Hey, It's already stopped and running them on open tasks only for now sounds like a good idea. Let me do that. On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:51 PM Antoine Musso wrote: > On 21/05/2019 23:40, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > > Hey, > > You probably know about the tag, it has been adde

[Wikitech-l] New Code of Conduct committee candidates

Hello, The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee candidates are (In alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Lucie-Aimée Kaffee - MusikAnimal - Tonina Zhelyazkova - Tony Thomas And auxiliary members will be (In alphabetical order): - Huji

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2019-06

The median age of open UBN! tasks went from 13 days to 2, that's nice Best On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 2:00 AM wrote: > > Hi Community Metrics team, > > This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. > > Accounts created in (2019-06): 316 > Active Maniphest users (any activity) in

[Wikitech-l] Unused i18n messages

Hello, A couple of months ago I noticed there are considerable number of i18n messages in mediawiki core that are not used in the code, it can happen because you remove the code but you forget to remove the associated i18n messages. This is not good as it puts unneeded work for our volunteer

[Wikitech-l] Code of Conduct committee meeting at Wikimania

Hello, The CoC committee had a meeting with four members out of five (Lucie, Tony, Tonina, and Amir were at Wikimania and MusikAnimal wasn't present). These notes are the public outcomes of the meeting. * The committee chose Amir as the chair (Amir requested to be the table but it got rejected) *

[Wikitech-l] Statistics for CoC Cases Term May 2018 to May 2019

Hello, The committee received several reports for cases that were out of our jurisdiction (usually due to mediawiki.org links followed from wikis that are not part of Wikimedia). Those are not included in the following numbers: In total, the committee dealt with and decided on 17 cases. Nine of

[Wikitech-l] Startup module size and ResourceLoader registry overhead

Hello, Startup module, is the Javascript code [1] that is being served at almost every request to Wikimedia as part of (non-blocking though) to load other RL modules. It does important things for example it checks if the requested modules already exist with the given hash in the local storage

[Wikitech-l] New section in code search: Wikimedia Services

Hey, Codesearch [1] now indexes Wikimedia services including Mobile apps, Kask, Parsoid, CX server, PoolCounter, and EventStream. You can also search only in services section by going to [2]. Let me know if anything doesn't work properly. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Codesearch [2]

[Wikitech-l] Clean up unused configs

Hey, It happens quite often that people add a temporary config variable to the code and then mediawiki-config repo, they remove it from code and forget to remove the config in mediawiki-config. My quick check found these config variables to be unused: $wgSpamBlacklistEventLogging

[Wikitech-l] Phabricator Maintenance bot source code

Hey, Today finally I was able to polish the code for phabricator maintenance bot [1]. In case you don't know, it's a bot that do cleanups in phabricator for cases Herald is unable to handle them (like moving tasks in columns). This bot probably has been spamming you with emails. I also made it

[Wikitech-l] Some phabricator helpers

://tools.wmflabs.org/phabricator-reporter/sprint.php?project==performance-team=7 [2]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/phabricator-reporter/sprint.php?project=RL+Module+Terminators+Trailblazing==7 [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/herald/ [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikidata/ Best -- Ami

[Wikitech-l] Thank you Tuesday

-- Amir Sarabadani (he/him) Software engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping PHPUnit 4 support

Thanks Daimona! In the spirit of automating everything including ourselves, I wrote a quick python script using Daimon's regexes to run on codebases and it tries to clean as much as possible for you. https://gist.github.com/Ladsgroup/bfb4f4b66384efb8b8d3efea338b6e6b (After running this, you should

[Wikitech-l] Being logged out of gerrit

Hello, I'm being logged out from gerrit basically every other day, I'm pretty sure I use "Remember me" and because my passwords are secure, It's cumbersome to login (not that much but it piles up the frustration). Is it just me? My colleagues and some other people I personally know have this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Being logged out of gerrit

The ticket implies this is fixed for a while, but I get logged out three times last week. I'm not sure if it's the only reason. On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 6:55 AM Andre Klapper wrote: > On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 10:43 +0700, Andre Klapper wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 08:09 +0530, Niharika Kohli

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid/PHP replaces Parsoid/JS on the Wikimedia cluster

Great job! It's such a big improvement while users might not notice, I greatly appreciate this improvement as it helps with the development and running third party installations of mediawiki. Best and thanks again! On Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 18:26 Subramanya Sastry wrote: > Summary > --- >

[Wikitech-l] CoC: New Amendment proposal: Explicitly banning legal threats

Hello, There is a new amendment proposed for CoC to add legal threats to list of unacceptable behavior section of CoC. Please take a look and leave a comment on the page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vdhvekfpz6nh64f3 The committee soon will review this proposal and if there is a community

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of conduct committee call for new members

Hello, Here's reminder that you have one day to send us your candidacy. Serving at the committee would help the technical community foster a hospital and welcoming environment for everyone. Join and help us! Best On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:09 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hello all, >

[Wikitech-l] Code of conduct committee call for new members

Hello all, It's coming close to time for annual appointments of community members to serve on the Code of Conduct (CoC) committee. The Code of Conduct Committee is a team of five trusted individuals plus five auxiliary members with diverse affiliations responsible for general enforcement of the

[Wikitech-l] New Code of Conduct committee candidates

Hello, The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee candidates are (In alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Martin Urbanec - MusikAnimal - Tonina Zhelyazkova - Tony Thomas And auxiliary members will be (Also in alphabetical order): - Huji

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Meet

Hey, "Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in Wikimedia CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using commercial services like Zoom which might have security and privacy implications [1][2]. Currently it's a jitsi (jitsi.org) installation. If you want to just

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Meet

, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:26 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hey, > "Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in > Wikimedia CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using > commercial services like Zoom which might have security and privacy > impli

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Meet

> > Thanks > Tito Dutta > Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind > me over email or phone call. > > > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 01:57, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > > > Hey, > > "Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmclo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abstract Schema and Schema changes, request for help

core development! > > It might be worth using a consistent gerrit topic or hashtag to make > finding the relevant patches easy. > > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:21 AM Amir Sarabadani > wrote: > > > Hello, > > In case you haven't done any changes on database schema of mediaw

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Meet

share my username/password which sounds a bit weird > (and people might be able to create meetings too with those) ? > > -- > Tony Thomas > https://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas > -- > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 4:40 PM Amir Sarabadani > wrote: >

[Wikitech-l] Abstract Schema and Schema changes, request for help

Hello, In case you haven't done any changes on database schema of mediawiki core, let me explain the process to you (if you know this, feel free to skip this paragraph): * Mediawiki core supports three types of RDBMS: MySQL, Sqlite, Postgres. It used to be five (plus Oracle and MSSQL) * For each

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Chat

eban Zarate wrote: > > > Thanks, it works!! > > > > El sáb., 29 de ago. de 2020 a la(s) 21:40, Amir Sarabadani ( > > ladsgr...@gmail.com) escribió: > > > > > Hey, can you try? https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia > > > > > > On Sun, Aug

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Chat

Hey, can you try? https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:37 AM Esteban Zarate wrote: > I just installed but there is nothing, can you create a channel as test?, > please > > El sáb., 29 de ago. de 2020 a la(s) 21:00, Amir Sarabadani ( > ladsgr...@gmai

[Wikitech-l] CoC amendment proposal: Appeals process

Hello, This is Amir from the CoC committee. Currently, there are two open amendment proposals that haven't had much progress in the past years and I would like to close them or at least make some progress. One of them in particular is really important. There are two major issues with the current

Re: [Wikitech-l] Logo of mediawiki

Hello everyone, I just wanted to remind you that only one week left from the voting period of the first round (general design and look of proposals). Best On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 2:42 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hey again. > I just wanted to remind people that the first round of voti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Chat

tech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use Not that I won't publish anything private, also the mattermost itself protects private data (like passwords) by hashing them. > > > Best regards, > > Count Count > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:00 AM Amir Sarabadani &

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

which basically destroyed the artistic freedom of designers (we are not going in that direction but we need to acknowledge the subjectivity of designs) HTH > > -- > Brian > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:50 AM Amir Sarabadani > wrote: > >> Hey, >> The first r

[Wikitech-l] RFC: Drop support for database upgrade of mediawiki older than two LTS releases

Hello, If you're not maintaining a mediawiki instance or don't work with mediawiki's installer/updater, feel free to ignore this email (sorry for spam). The aforementioned RFC has reached phase 3, which means we need to reach out to stakeholders and since this RFC is going to impact third party

[Wikitech-l] Thank you Tuesday

It has been a while since we had Thank you Tuesdays but this one needs a shout out. Thank you Manuel for epic work of cleaning up more than one thousand schema drifts in s3 (small wikis) from missing indexes to uncleaned fields and much more: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260111 Best --

[Wikitech-l] The second round of voting for mediawiki logo - one week left

Hello, This is a gentle reminder that there's one week left from the voting period of choosing the next logo of mediawiki. If you haven't voted yet, you can vote in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020/Round_2 Best -- Amir (he/him)

[Wikitech-l] Update on abstract schema and schema changes

Hello, It has been a while since I gave an update on the state of abstracting schema and schema changes in mediawiki . So here's a really long one. So far around half of the mediawiki core tables have been migrated to abstract schema (plus lots of

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Chat

Hello, Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related discussion groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and many more. Besides being scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading mailman (the software behind mailing lists)

t; > But let's say it would be *nice* not to mess up the public archive > > URLs if feasible :-) > > > > > > - d. > > > > > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 21:19, Amir Sarabadani > wrote: > > > > > > hmm, Links of archived discussions in private

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

Whenever a vote is taken, it's > important to stick to democratic norms, basically "one person, one vote". > Round 2 is entirely variations on a single proposal, which disenfranchises > everyone who didn't prefer that design. Is it too late to discuss? > > Kind reg

[Wikitech-l] Second round of voting for the new logo of mediawiki - testing the voting gadget

Hello, The second round of voting for the new logo will start soon. In this round, we are going to vote on different variants of the top design (Proposal six). Given that 16 different variants of this logo exist (with different wordmarks, colors, etc.), we need preferential voting instead of the

[Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

Hello, The subject line is self-explanatory, you can go to the voting page and cast your vote. This is going to continue for a month and it's about different variants of the top contender (different

Re: [Wikitech-l] Second round of voting for the new logo of mediawiki - testing the voting gadget

ions. Otherwise, it looks pretty good. > > Best, > QEDK > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_effect > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Above_the_fold > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias) > > On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 23:00, Amir Sarabadani

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abstract Schema and Schema changes, request for help

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:40 AM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Oh thanks for the great idea. I started "abstract-schema" hashtag and > added them to as many as possible: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/hashtag:%22abstract-schema%22+(status:open%20OR%20status:merged) > > I jus

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Library" for sharing useful resources for learning technical topics

/wiki/Vue.js. Edits welcome. > > Stephen > > > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:24 PM Aron Demian > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 19:27, Amir Sarabadani > wrote: > > > > > Instead, I have this idea to have a virtual library for developers so >

[Wikitech-l] "Library" for sharing useful resources for learning technical topics

Hello, Recently, I stumbled upon a technical writing course which I found very useful and I wanted to share it and thought of sending an email to wikitech-l recommending it. Also, I've been looking for a resource about VueJS with not much luck and wanted to send an email asking if anyone knows

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki logo

Hello people! So the voting period is done now and the second proposal is the clear winner. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020/Round_2 163 people participated and these are the top winners using Schulze method: * 2: Gradient (translucent -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Logo of mediawiki

bit of kindness these days. Thank you. On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 2:39 AM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hello, > The current logo of MediaWiki was adapted slightly more than fifteen years > ago and hasn’t changed since. This logo despite having the nice concept of > sunflower, is old. T

[Wikitech-l] Ethical question regarding some code

Hey, I have an ethical question that I couldn't answer yet and have been asking around but no definite answer yet so I'm asking it in a larger audience in hope of a solution. For almost a year now, I have been developing an NLP-based AI system to be able to catch sock puppets (two users

Re: [Wikitech-l] Logo of mediawiki

(like different wordmarks, different colors, etc.) Thank you for your contributions on this project. Best On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 3:44 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hello everyone, > Thank you for your enthusiasm around the logo. It made me so happy, and > also thank you for all of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading mailman (the software behind mailing lists)

According to the upgrade guide ( https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/migration.html#other-considerations): "If you need your URLs for Mailman 2 archives to work, you can keep the HTML files generated for the archives around and your web server configuration for the archives intact (possibly with a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading mailman (the software behind mailing lists)

t pretty > much means rolling our own auth system on top of Mailman 3 or creating > a bunch of HTTP redirect rules. > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 3:31 PM Amir Sarabadani > wrote: > > > > According to the upgrade guide ( > > https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/migration.h

[Wikitech-l] Upgrading mailman (the software behind mailing lists)

Hey, Mailman, the software that powers our mailing lists, is extremely old, by looking at https://lists.wikimedia.org/ you can guess how old it is. I would really like to upgrade it to mailman 3 which has these benefits: * Much better security (including but not limited to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ethical question regarding some code

Thank you all for the responses, I try to summarize my responses here. * By closed source, I don't mean it will be only accessible to me, It's already accessible by another CU and one WMF staff, and I would gladly share the code with anyone who has signed NDA and they are of course more than

Re: [Wikitech-l] New DB_REPLICA constant; DB_SLAVE deprecated

I'd be happy to rename it to "source". It would be also great if we clean up puppet repo from bad terms If people want to follow the discussion, I'd recommend checking this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254646 Best On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 11:30 Jaime Crespo wrote: > > I don't plan

[Wikitech-l] Codesearch host has moved

Hello, Just a quick update: Since Cloud VPS tools are moving from *.wmflabs.org to *.wmcloud.org. The codesearch has moved from https://codesearch.wmflabs.org to https://codesearch.wmcloud.org The old URL is now redirects to the new one. Thank Bryan Davis for doing this!

[Wikitech-l] Logo of mediawiki

Hello, The current logo of MediaWiki was adapted slightly more than fifteen years ago and hasn’t changed since. This logo despite having the nice concept of sunflower, is old. The sunflower represents the diversity, the constant growth and also the wildness. Among its biggest issues I can point

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