[Wikitech-l] Search Platform Office Hours Tomorrow!—Feb 5th, 2020

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

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

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[Wikitech-l] Comment regarding technical newsletters

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 (

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

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

[Wikitech-l] (very) Brief WMCS + wikitech outage Monday 2020-02-10, 15:00 UTC

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