Hi Birgit and team,
I really appreciate this effort and congratulations on the wonderful results. After having checked the links in the mail, all my open questions are answered except for one: Is there a mechanism to flag tickets that need a review? From the description in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/3144/ <https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/project/profile/3144/,DanaInfo=phabricator.wikimedia.org,SSL+> one gets the impression that this is on halt. All the best Moritz (physikerwelt) On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 8:52 PM Birgit Müller <bmuel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Welcome to the monthly MediaWiki Insights email! > > Enable more people to know MediaWiki and contribute effectively > > In the last MW insights email > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Reports/October_2023> > we shared more about our approach to helping people contribute > effectively to MediaWiki > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Contributor_retention_and_growth>. > A few interesting data points: > > The number of contributors to MediaWiki core who have more than > 5 > patches continued to grow: We just hit for the first time the goal of 20% > since the start of the Foundation’s fiscal year in July, compared to the > July-November time period last year. This is exciting to see - now it’s > about keeping the momentum and continuing on that path. > > Many thanks to all the people who have contributed to MediaWiki core! > > The average and median time to first review for patches in MediaWiki core > decreased significantly in the period July 1st to Nov 30 compared to the > same time period one year earlier. > > > - Average time to first review dropped from previously 16.5 days to > 4.5 days > - Median time to first review dropped from previously 1.2 days to 0.6 > days > > Many thanks to all the code reviewers of MediaWiki core patches! > > Keep in mind that this data is only one data point. There are many factors > that play into the experience of contributors; a helpful comment may be > more relevant than a fast +1/-1, etc. > > Over the past weeks, we have been spending some time with planning > initiatives to further support people in onboarding and contributing to > MediaWiki: > > > - We are preparing for a WMF internal MediaWiki code jam in December > to try out a few things and focus specifically on the needs of teams. > - One thing we wanted to test in practice at the code jam is the “MediaWiki > Quick Install <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347347>” guide. This > has been a collaboration between the Tech Docs team and the MediaWiki > Platform team - you can find the latest version of this experiment here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Local_development_quickstart > - We discussed a possible focus project in the next quarter on > improving first time MediaWiki (core) contributors’ experience. We’re > exploring a few simple, small ideas that we could implement/try out in the > next quarter (ticket follows!). > > Project snapshot: Analysis of MediaWiki execution timings, fixing issues > with logging in on Mobile, progress on RESTBase deprecation and more! > > Performance: Piotr and Timo conducted an analysis of MediaWiki execution > timings <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350593> and identified areas > for improvement. One of the fixes promises a 50ms improvement > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351807>! Timo and Derick worked on > bagOStuff improvements <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336004> (cache > layer), shipped on MW-1.42. This work aims to lower the barriers for > contributors by making interfaces leaner and more intuitive and is reducing > storage access cost from 10ms to ~1 ms. Thank you for your work! > > More highlights: > > > MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase now automatically tracks what database tables > get touched during the integration test, removing the need for developers > to keep track (T342301 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342301>). Many > thanks to Daimona and others for their work on this! > > Work towards PHP 8.2 support continues, with one helpful outcome being a > new DynamicPropertyTestHelper feature (T326466 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326466>). Many thanks to TK-999 and > all reviewers! > > Gergö worked on solving a variety of problems with logging in on mobile > (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257852#9347008 and below). Many > thanks to Gergö and everyone who provided support! > > RESTBase sunset: Wikifeeds now calls the Parsoid endpoint in MediaWiki > core rather than RESTBase. Many thanks to Yiannis and Daniel for their hard > work on making this happen! Cxserver is preparing a deployment to the > same soon > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/deployment-charts/+/977983/> > (thank > you, Language team!). > > > Upcoming: > > There is an OutputTransform > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/OutputTransform> pipeline that is > being introduced to replace ParserOutput::getText(). This pipeline > initially targets content that comes from the ParserCache before it is > rendered (as a 1:1 getText() equivalent ). The team is likely going to > introduce another layer of cacheability of this output so that we can store > richer canonical Parsoid content and use this pipeline to transform it for > final rendering. Many thanks to Isabelle, CScott and Daniel for this work > in progress (Gerrit:967449 > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/967449>)! > > > As one puzzle piece of our product research efforts and platform design > explorations, Moriel and others have been working on mapping high level > essential user workflows such as edit and patrol against platform > components to explore workflow patterns and potential architectural > opportunities in the platform. One outcome of this is going to be to > describe the key challenges when trying to model our system. Many thanks to > Moriel for leading on this work, and Daniel, Timo, Subbu, James, Cindy, > Emanuele and Amir S for their support, great questions and ideas! > > > Up next: Presentations at Semantic MediaWikiCon > > Semantic MediaWikiCon > <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023#Program> is > coming up, virtual and in person from Dec 11-13. We shared about the > updates to the rdbms library in the last MW Insights email - if you want to > learn more about this work, check out Amir’s presentation at Semantic > MediaWikiCon > <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023/Major_changes_on_interfaces_of_MediaWiki_rdbms_library>! > Subbu and C.Scott are also going to give their yearly update on the > parser unification work > <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023/Updates_from_the_Wikitext_Parsing_world>, > Chris will be talking about Codex > <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023/Codex,_the_Design_System_for_Wikimedia>, > and Stef about automated testing for complex MediaWiki topologies > <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023/Automated_Testing_for_Complex_Mediawiki_Topologies>. > Since the theme of this edition is MediaWiki in the age of AI, Mike will be > presenting on the recent experiences with the experimental Wikipedia > ChatGPT plugin > <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023/The_Wikipedia_ChatGPT_plugin>. > Keynote speaker of this years’ Semantic MediaWikiCon is Markus Krötsch > <https://www.korrekt.org/page/Short_biography>. > > > That’s the last insights email for 2023. The deployment train pauses for > the end of the year break, and so does the monthly MW Insights email! > > > We’ll be following up with a double-edition in January. > > > Thanks all for reading, > > > Birgit > > > > > > -- > Birgit Müller (she/her) > Director of Product, MediaWiki and Developer Experiences > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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