Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Jon Robson
(Volunteer hat on) I'm a little sad we didn't find a place for this in the Wikipedia apps or web products, but I plan to maintain a labs instance going forward: https://wikipedia-trending.wmflabs.org/ And a web presentation with a push notification feature (which notified be this morning of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Jonathan Morgan
FWIW, I did the research comparing Trending edits to top pageviews, and I *also* think Trending edits is a promising tool and am glad to hear that it going forward in some fashion even if it's being pulled from production (for now?). I hope we can continue to develop the model, and I'm confident

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ri-team] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Corey Floyd
Admin assistance is definitely an interesting use case… there is also the possibility of including incorporating ORES scores to see what changes are actually good or not. Since the API is primarily based off of edits, it isn’t too surprising that a contributor / admin use case may be a better fit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > This is a little inferior to the production version as it is unable to use > production kafka and if it has any outages it will lose data. > Hopefully that gets fixed soon, Cloud VPS / Toolforge is the foundation for out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Andrew Otto
> This is a little inferior to the production version as it is unable to use production kafka and if it has any outages it will lose data. ​EventStreams isn’t as good as using Kafka, but an outage shouldn’t be a reason to lose data. Store the Last-Event-ID

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Jon Robson
Since there is some confusion on the thread, I would like to clarify that I am using EventStreams in the labs version. There is no way too use Kafka outside production and no way to replay historical events (which was what made this so much better in production). (code for this is mostly in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Melody Kramer
It's an incredibly useful tool for people outside of our existing community — who use Wikipedia to determine what's resonating worldwide. I've tweeted about it several times and it always gets pickup from journalists: https://twitter.com/mkramer/status/940676642636206091 Happy to put you in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Ryan Kaldari
One interesting thing that I noticed about the trending edits API is that it was fairly useful in identifying articles that were under attack by vandals or experiencing an edit war. A lot of times a vandal will just sit on an article and keep reverting back to the vandalized version until an admin

[Wikitech-l] Tomorrow: Last Weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting of the Year

2017-12-12 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbor @ Wikimedia

2017-12-12 Thread Strainu
Hi Gilles, Thank you for the very interesting read and generally for a job well done, as most of the users will never know that critical part of the infrastructure changed. :) Where can we find more information about the thumb caching policy change that you mention in one of the posts? Also,

[Wikitech-l] Thumbor @ Wikimedia

2017-12-12 Thread Gilles Dubuc
I wrote a blog series that just got picked up on the main Wikimedia blog about my work migrating Wikimedia wikis to Thumbor for media thumbnailing: Part 1: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/12/09/thumbor-journey-rationale/ Part 2: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/12/09/thumbor-journey-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

2017-12-12 Thread Corey Floyd
Just a reminder that this is happening this Thursday. Please update any tools you have before then. Thanks! On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:30 PM Corey Floyd wrote: > Hi all, > > The experimental Trending Service[1] will be sunset on December 14th, 2017. > > We initially