Re: [Wikitech-l] none

If you haven't come across <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants>, that page has a good introduction for how the GSoC program works. If you have more specific questions, let us know. AntiCompositeNumber On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 4:45 AM wrote: > > H

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing myself - New memeber

Hello Teneng, Welcome! You can find some introductory information about GSoC on WIkimedia at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants>. AntiCompositeNumber On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:43 PM Teneng Clifford wrote: > Hello Wikis, > > My name is Teneng Cli

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth 2.0 support in OAuth extension

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers#OAuth_2 On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 8:59 AM Chico Venancio wrote: > Do we have documentation on the OAuth 2.0 endpoints? > Chico Venancio > > > Em dom., 19 de jan. de 2020 às 11:15, Chico Venancio < > chicocvenan...@gmail.com> escreveu: > > > Great

Re: [Wikitech-l] Poll: What algorithms do you program into your wikis?

The term "algorithm" has picked up new meanings in popular culture, making it's meaning unclear without sufficient context. What do you mean by "algorithm" in your email? On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:14 AM Daren Welsh wrote: > > As research for a potential presentation topic at EMWCon 2020 [0], I'

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Understanding Wikimedia Maps and its challenges, 25 March 2020 at 5 PM UTC

There's not usually a compelling reason to put an hour-long talk recording on Commons. I'm sure it could be arranged if there's a need for it. On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 4:56 PM Pine W wrote: > > Hi Sarah, > > Thanks for sharing this announcement. Will the video also be published > to Commons? > > P

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get total number of proofread and validated pages in any wikisource via api?

Extension:Proofread_Page uses categories to sort pages by quality, so it would be easiest to use that system. The category names are defined in Mediawiki:Proofreadpage_quality0_category through MediaWiki:Proofreadpage_quality4_category, and you can query those categories using the Categoryinfo or C

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Etherpad upgrade and a new skin

Upstream projects making UI changes without consulting ME? I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value! I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! In all seriousness, thanks to the upstream developers and WMF ops folks for their continued hard work. On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:43

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Backport and Config changes window (name change)

We could go the SuSa route and call it the BACON window, for BAckports and CONfigs On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 5:29 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > > hmm, What about B&C? Similar when we call "Trust and Safety" as "T&S" > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:26 PM Martin Urbanec > wrote: > > > I think we need som

[Wikitech-l] Moving from Gerrit to GitLab

. They are, however, looking for feedback. More information is at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/GitLab> and the associated talk page. Regards, AntICompositeNumber ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wiki

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

can reduce harm. After all that, if you are not satisfied that harm has been sufficiently reduced, there is only one answer: do not create the tool. AntiCompositeNumber On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 10:33 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > > Hey, > I have an ethical question that I couldn't answer

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

Glad to hear this is moving forward! Keeping archive links working, for both public and private lists, should be a requirement. There's a lot of institutional knowledge stored in the mailing list archives, and it's very important to keep that around. ACN On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 1:05 PM Zoran Dori

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

al. How will > > the change affect links to past messages? Will someone need to > > construct a redirect farm? > > > > > > - d. > > > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 19:54, AntiCompositeNumber > > wrote: > > > > > > Glad to hear this is moving for

Re: [Wikitech-l] 📈 Wikimedia production errors help

There is an impression among many community members, myself included, that Foundation development generally prioritizes new features over fixing existing problems. Foundation teams will sprint for a few months to put together a minimum viable product, release it, then move on to the new hotness, le

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

*HTML email is a scourge.* On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:35 AM Chris Danis wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:22 AM Faidon Liambotis > wrote: > > On behalf of the Mutt & other console email clients user club, we > > approve of this change. We haven't formed consensus on it yet, but I > > suspect we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Workflow for updating javascript tools on wiki?

The Twinkle project uses a Perl script to sync from Github to on-wiki JS: IIRC it's run manually, but one could conceivably run something similar in a CI/CD pipeline. That would, of course, mean storing interface administrator credential

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Fixing redirects" to "improve performance"

While the specifics may have changed over time, the general point of the page is correct -- "fixing" a redirect will use significantly more server time than clicking on one. When you click a redirect, MediaWiki queries the redirect table to see where you should go instead. Reads from the database l

Re: [Wikitech-l] executing long running queries in PAWS (ctd)

n easily open a Python container with `webservice --backend=kubernetes python3.7 shell` and run things from there. <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Python> has more information. AntiCompositeNumber On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:47 PM Mat Kelcey wrote: > > Thanks Nicholas for

[Wikitech-l] Re: IRC channels are moving to Libera Chat

believe them. AntiCompositeNumber On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:39 PM Kunal Mehta wrote: > > tl;dr: > * Wikimedia IRC channels are moving from Freenode to Libera.Chat. > * Register an account on Libera.Chat and join us there! > > There has been a lot of activity over the past week rel

[Wikitech-l] Re: Phabricator upstream shutdown

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283980 On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 9:00 PM Brian Wolff wrote: > > It sounds like phabricator upstream is going away: > https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/ > > Just curious, are we planning to continue using it long t

[Wikitech-l] Re: Sponsored-by

For this to work well, I think it would be useful to document somewhere how sponsoring organizations should be identified. Things like "WMF" vs "Wikimedia Foundation", and should departments/teams also be identified? If departments/teams are going to be included, should they be free-form ("Wikimedi

[Wikitech-l] Re: How to get alerts on errors for cron jobs on toolforge

Cron should send mail with the output of the command in the crontab. Because the grid crontab runs jsub, and not your command directly, the only mail you will get from cron is when your job has been submitted. You can use the -m option on jsub to send mail in a few different cases (see https://wi

[Wikitech-l] Re: Please autovoice wikibugs in your IRC channel

ikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/N2S532RNJQUCVHITDUVV2HA5BY5HEQOL/>. AntiCompositeNumber On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:13 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > You're aware of the fracas at Freenode, right? > > Is that in the sights of your observation here? > > Cheers,

[Wikitech-l] Re: Changes to Readers-Web-Backlog

Changing project tags would have been a much better idea, and how every other backlog-focused team deals with similar situations. Even triaging as Lowest would have been better. Closing as Declined says that the task can't be completed by anyone, at any time. The choice to (improperly) decline a b

[Wikitech-l] Re: WVUI v0.3.0 released – last minor version incl. new components

Looks like the closest thing to a decision record that we get to have is . I'll underscore that "everyone" does not mean "WMF staff, WMDE staff, and a few consultants". ACN On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 6:37 PM Kunal Mehta wrote: > > Hi, > > On 8/26/21 11:48

[Wikitech-l] Re: Microsoft Word to Wiki (via LibreOffice)

You can paste rich text into the Visual Editor. The wikitext it produces usually needs some cleaning up afterward (bold headings, inconsistent list markup, etc), but it's probably the easiest for non-technical folks. ACN On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:35 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > > And al

[Wikitech-l] Re: Limit to the number of images in a page?

Those are the limits for MediaWiki, but we don't render thumbnails with MediaWiki in Wikimedia production (we use Thumbor instead). The limits for Thumbor are in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/operations-puppet/browse/production/modules/thumbor/templates/server.conf.erb$157. Thumbor only

[Wikitech-l] Re: [Commons-l] Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

I probably have the best understanding of the thumbnailing system among volunteers at the moment, but I'm not interested in bailing out the WMF on this one. The fundamental purpose of the WMF is to support the continued operation of the wikis by maintaining technical infrastructure. There is not a

[Wikitech-l] Re: 🕓 Backport window timeslot changes

Are they still pinned to Pacific time for DST, or will they stay in UTC? AntiCompositeNumber On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 7:32 PM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > > tl;dr: Backport windows will shift earlier in the (UTC) day starting on Mon, > Feb 14th. > > Problem > Some backport windows

[Wikitech-l] Re: Deprecation: directly invoking maintenance scripts

good guide. AntiCompositeNumber (he/him) On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 6:31 PM wrote: > > Hey Daniel, > > > > Thanks for the email. Is any refactoring of the maintenance scripts > themselves suggested yet? e.g. removing the top and bottom boilerplate? > > > > Thanks, > > N

[Wikitech-l] Re: About "Final view structure for view `page_view`"

Do you happen to have a list of the extensions that were installed on that wiki? AntiCompositeNumber (he/him) On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 3:19 PM Brian Wolff wrote: > > As far as i know mediawiki core has never used views. It is possible some > extension made it, but it would be an unus

[Wikitech-l] Re: AI phabricator profile

Pages that are public on the Internet are public. Everything on Phabricator, including user profiles, is intended to be publicly accessible by default. AntiCompositeNumber (he/him) On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 10:13 AM Martin Domdey wrote: > > Hi, > > how is it possible, that an AI kn