Re: [Wikitech-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset

Congrats Community Tech! On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 16:26 David Barratt wrote: > Awesome!!! > > [image: Wikimedia-logo black.svg] *David Barratt* (he/him) > Software Engineer, Anti-Harassment Tools > Wikimedia Foundation > > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 6:01 PM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scrum of scrums/2020-03-18

ct Infrastructure on creations of k8s namespaces/tokens for > proton, > > mobileapps. Working on it > > ** Research on creation of k8s namespaces/tokens for recommendation-api. > > Working on it. > > > > == Wikimedia DE == > > > > === Wikidata === > > *

Re: [Wikitech-l] [JavaScript] The best documentation automation can buy

t; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/194/the_best_documentation_automation_can_buy/ > > Stephen > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki has been upgraded to PHPUnit 8

gt; Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Toby Negrin (he/his) Chief Product Officer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Datacenter Switchover recap

Seriously -- this is some complicated, difficult stuff that one day may be critical to keeping our projects available to everyone (but let's hope not) Well done indeed! -Toby On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > Today we've successfully migrated

Re: [Wikitech-l] Map internationalization launched everywhere, AND embedded maps now live on 276 Wikipedias

Thanks Joe! I'd like to also express my gratitude to the Foundation developers, Roan, Möriel, Stephane and Elena who were able to pick up this project on short notice and provide the technical excellence it needed to be released across the wikis. Thank you! -Toby On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:32 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] First step for MCR merged: Deprecate and gut the Revision class

Congratulations Daniel and everyone who worked on this -- it's a big milestone for the structured data and the MediaWiki in general! The post-mortem is an epic read -- another round of thanks to everyone who pitched in. -Toby On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 2:26 AM, Daniel Kinzler

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question Pertaining to the "stats.grok.se" Page Containing Pre-2015 Page-View Data

Hi Karl, Daniel -- Erik doesn't support stats.grok.se. There's some information on the reliability of stats.grok.se and alternatives on this thread on the analytics list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2017-August/005978.html good luck! -Toby On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:10 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom adopts Charter, becomes TechCom

Congratulations Daniel and Victoria and everyone from the Community and Foundation who participated in this process. It's a big step forward for building software together. -Toby On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Hello All! > > Victoria an I

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Radar, 2017-06-07

Hi Daniel -- I always read these and find them very useful but realized I had never let you know. So thank you for sending them out :) -Toby On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Hi all! > > Here are the minutes from this week's ArchCom meeting.

Re: [Wikitech-l] ElasticSearch 5 is alive!

Congrats Discovery folks! Well done. -Toby On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Deborah Tankersley < dtankers...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello, > > After several months of hard work by the Discovery Search > team, we're > happy to announce

Re: [Wikitech-l] Many watchlist features were broken at last deployment

Indeed -- thanks everybody! Glad things are working now. -Toby On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:33 AM, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > Hello all, it works! > Many thanks to everyone who helped. > Igal > > > 2017-03-02 20:14 GMT+02:00 יגאל חיטרון : > > > Thank

Re: [Wikitech-l] Many watchlist features were broken at last deployment

Just a quick note -- we (WMF) do see these emails and are investigating the report. Thank you for reporting the issue and apologies for the inconvenience. -Toby On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:21 AM, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > Thank you. I searched in the list you provided, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Node 6 in WMF production

Nice work Services team! We appreciate your support :) -Toby On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Marko Obrovac wrote: > Hello, > > In the second half of January 2017, the version of Node running in WMF > production has been updated from v4 to v6~[1]. Parsoid, RESTBase,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes at Wikimedia Foundation

t; sense (the recent creation of the WMCS team is a great example of how this > could work.) In practical terms, we’re not rushing this. Teams are busy > with annual planning, and there’s no need for haste. I’m just mentioning it > here so it doesn’t surprise anyone. > > As Wes me

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Readership metrics for the timespan until December 4, 2016

Thank you so much for this Zareen! It's really great to see this report -- so much interesting data to think about! -Toby On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Zareen Farooqui wrote: > Hi all, > > This resumes the usual look >

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

Thank you Petr. Well said! -Toby On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hello, > > I don't like to sound like a bad guy, but I really find it quite > inappropriate to discuss this sort of stuff on a public mailing list. > This really is a personal matter. If he

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long summary upon reverting an IPv6 anon

Please file a ticket! It's good to have a record, especially for new-ish things like IPV6 display. Thanks! -Toby On Friday, October 14, 2016, Bináris wrote: > (eltér > 9Ajrahasznos%C3%ADt%C3%A1s=17398=18037161=18034638> >

Re: [Wikitech-l] O'Reilly free books

Thanks for sharing Amir -- this is a great link. -Toby On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > O'Reilly just published some of their popular books for free, either as > part of open access movement or some kind of marketing (or both). I find > them useful

Re: [Wikitech-l] Opening up MediaWiki dev summit in January?

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > with by the WMF's Product department, perhaps not. > I'd be happy to talk about Reading's roadmap and discuss the technical implications[1]. I could also go over some of the user research we just did in Mexico,

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2016-08-17 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

Hi Pine -- this is primarily an operational email (although I too read it for a snapshot of what's going on). If a team doesn't report one week, it's not that big a deal and they should provide an update in the next week. Best, -Toby On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Pine W

Re: [Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures grafana dashboard

For sure -- this is very useful! -Toby On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Bryan Davis wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Addshore wrote: > > > > Recently WMDE started rolling out the RevisionSlider beta feature to a > > handful of wikis. > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad outage

Hi Jaime -- Thank you to you and the rest of the ops folks who rescued this system. We all really appreciate it. -Toby On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Jaime Crespo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Jaime Crespo > wrote: > > Hi all, > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Status report #2

Hi James -- the Community Tech team is growing! We just added another developer and we have another position in the Annual Plan. Agreed -that it's been really great watching this team grow and partner with the German chapter as well as other community members. -Toby On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:43

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Data center switch-over moving ahead next week: please stay available :)

Congrats Mark and everyone else involved. This is a big step for reliability and performance of the sites and a difficult technical task to say the least. Well done! -Toby On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Mark Bergsma wrote: > We've just completed the switch back, and all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please provide feedback on new discrimination and enforcement sections of Code of Conduct

Hi Matt -- Thank you to you and the rest of the team for this important work. I really appreciate these updates and I'm looking forward to the finalized code of conduct. -Toby On Wednesday, March 16, 2016, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Thanks for your participation in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mass migration to new syntax - PRO or CON?

First, a thank you for Daniel for writing such a balanced, informative email on a somewhat contentious subject! As someone who will probably never touch a line of MW code, I'm not going to actually vote. But I do have experience in large, complex codebases and I'm going to argue for PRO. We need

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] MobileFrontend+Wikibase security patch

Thanks for the quick response everybody. -Toby On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > A security vulnerability has been discovered in MediaWiki setups which > use both Wikibase and MobileFrontend. > > All projects in the Wikimedia cluster have been since

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

No one asked for 10 more wishes? :) Thanks Danny and the Community Tech team. This is a great model for working with our Communities. -Toby On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Nirzar Pangarkar wrote: > It's really cool to see community wish list coming together! > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Try the free Wikipedia app" banners

Hi all -- I wanted to follow up on this thread with the results of the test: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Finland_Banner_Test TLDR: While we saw a big increase in installs and opens, we found that the campaign did not significantly increase pageviews, leading us to conclude that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support: November 2

I learned something from every slide in the deck. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise Moriel! Looking forward to watching the video. -Toby On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > Thanks Moriel. It was amazing. i shared it in Persian Wikipedia's

[Wikitech-l] Fiscal Year Q2 Engineering goals

Hi Everyone -- A bit late but I wanted to let you know that the Engineering goals for the 2d quarter (October to December) of this current Fiscal year are posted on Mediawiki.org. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals We'll be more timely in the future. Please

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia is down

Working for me now (via mobile web) On Monday, October 26, 2015, Steinsplitter Wiki wrote: > Please see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116593 :-) > > > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:21:09 +0200 > > From: amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il > > To:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architecture Committee expansion

Congrats Timo! -Toby On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Brian Gerstle wrote: > Congrats Timo, well deserved! > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 8:21 AM, aude wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Tim Starling > > wrote: > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Try the free Wikipedia app" banners

Hi all -- I'm going to try to address as many of the issues mentioned in this thread and the Phabricator ticket[1] as I can. I'm going to preface this by explaining why we're doing this. First of all, this is only a test in order to increase our understanding of how our readers interact with our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of mobile.wikipedia.org and wap.wikipedia.org in support of browser HSTS preload

Hi John -- What do you think would be a better sample? My feeling is that a 24 hour period captures global usage and we're currently at about .01% of page views come to these domains is a pretty good indicator. Keep in mind we're doing this for a legitimate technical reason and not arbitrarily.

[Wikitech-l] Community Tech jobs posted

Hi all -- I wanted to give you an update on the Community Tech team. We've posted job descriptions for open positions on our jobs page that we'd like to bring your attention to: Community Tech Developer https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62666?t=m5pcy0#.VUgfhjvF_FI Community Tech

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Madhu Viswanathan

Hi Everyone, I'd like to welcome Madhu to the Analytics team. We are very excited about bringing her skills and experience to the team. She'll be based in San Francisco and sitting with the Analytics team on the third floor. In her own words: I grew up in India, for most part in Chennai, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] [x-posting] Raising attention for the API bug

Hi Amir -- the scrum of scrum meeting would be a good place to escalate this. Let me know if you or someone from LE needs an invite. -Toby On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This bug https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87645 is more serious than

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

Our referral traffic for 10/13 - 10/14 months follows. It's heavily weighted towards seach. There are some industry wide issues about identifying referrals from Facebook and Twitter's mobile apps which probably underestimate the numbers but it seems like we have some room to improve here.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintaining or replacing Gerrit

Christian still provides support/bugfixes for Gerrit when needed, but it is not his primary responsibility. -Toby On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.orgwrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:52:52PM -0400, MZMcBride wrote: The Wikimedia Foundation currently has