[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 24.05 released!

TLDR: fresh-node now defaults to Node.js 20, and introducing the "fresh-npm" security feature. Get started: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh#fresh-environment Changelog: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh/+/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md Commits:

[Wikitech-l] Re: Drop dedicated support for IE 11, Edge Legacy and Opera

On Tue, 14 May 2024, at 18:42, Krinkle wrote: > I suggest we fix https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342267 before making any > decision that is based on browser usage […]. > > By "fix" I mean, ask your respective managers to [create] demand for it and > create interest

[Wikitech-l] Re: Drop dedicated support for IE 11, Edge Legacy and Opera

I suggest we fix https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342267 before making any decision that is based on browser usage metric, unless we can demonstrate by other means that Opera isn't used by up to 10% of page views. By "fix" I mean, ask your respective managers to demand it and create interest

[Wikitech-l] Re: Collect telemetry (using WikimediaEvents) for a gadget

I would suggest using the Statsd counters that WikimediaEvents exposes to MediaWiki JavaScript (including Gadgets and user scripts!). This is a public API, with aggregate data publicly accessible via Grafana. These require no server-side configurations, schemas, or private data access. And (on

[Wikitech-l] Re: Global Lua modules and templates

I think this is one of the most awesome things I've seen in a long time. Has my full support! Thank you for building this and sharing it with everyone! I've been asked whether we should be concerned about this gadget in terms of site load or site performance. I'll share my analysis here also for

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 23.08.1 released!

TLDR: fresh-node now uses Node 18. To learn more or install/upgrade, refer to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh. Hi all, Fresh 23.08.1 is upon is. It's a fairly big release! *What's new?* After a delay of more than two years, Node.js 18 and npm 9 (replacing Node.js 16 and npm 7) are

[Wikitech-l]  Flame graphs arrive in WikimediaDebug!

TLDR: The new "Excimer UI" option in WikimediaDebug generates flame graphs on-demand! Open this example to browse a profile I captured earlier from Wikipedia's Main Page. To learn what this feature is, why we built it, and

[Wikitech-l] Re-introducing MediaWiki CLI profiler for maintenance scripts

TLDR: Those with shell access at WMF can now run maintenance scripts on mwdebug hosts, and use the *--profiler=text* option to produce a report detailing how long the script spent in each MediaWiki component, class, and function. == *What* == The MediaWiki platform at WMF consists of broadly

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 23.05.1 released!

TLDR: fresh-node now supports a one-off "command" invocation mode. Learn more or install: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh Changelog: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh/+/23.05.1/CHANGELOG.md Each of the fresh-node scripts now supports a positional "command" argument, to run a single

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 22.11 released!

This release adds additional options to forward environment variables, and improves ZSH support. Get started by installing, updating, or learning more, at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh#fresh-environment Changelog: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh/+/22.11.1/CHANGELOG.md Thanks to

[Wikitech-l]  Valentín Gutierrez receives Web Perf Hero award!

I’m happy to share that the second Web Perf Hero award of 2022 goes to Valentín Gutierrez! This award is in recognition of Valentín’s work on the Wikimedia CDN over the past three months. In particular, Valentín dove deep into Apache Traffic Server. Valentín improved ATS backend p75 latency

[Wikitech-l] Re: Feedback wanted: PHPCS in a static types world

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, at 11:41, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Am 10.11.2022 um 03:08 schrieb Tim Starling: >> Clutter, because it's redundant to add a return type declaration when the >> return type is already in the doc comment. If we stop requiring doc comments >> as you propose, then fine, add a

[Wikitech-l] Zuul status page: redesign and perf

I've redesigned the Zuul status page at https://integration.wikimedia.org/zuul/ (or view demo if its idle/empty). This was the last of our microsites and productivity tools where we still used the Twitter Bootstrap design, rather than

[Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove AlphabeticPager::getOrderTypeMessages()

This was introduced in March 2008 with r32228 (ad178edb80) for use in the CategoryPager of Special:Categories, but almost immediately removed again from there, on the same day, in r32259

[Wikitech-l] Infrastructure diagrams

I've done a major update to a number of diagrams on Wikitech. Usually, I don't mention an update here, but I'm highlighting it now as it's been a while since we mentioned them on-list and the community and foundation have grown a lot so some of these may be new to you. Given how much has

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 22.09 released!

This release promotes Node.js 16 to be the default runtime in fresh-node. Get started by installing, updating, or learning more, at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh#fresh-environment Changelog: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh/+/22.09.1/CHANGELOG.md Node.js 16 is now the default

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #46: July & August 2022

How are we doing in our strive for operational excellence? Read on to find out! Incidents 7 documented incidents in July, and 4 in August (Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). Read more about past incidents at Incident status <https://wikitech.wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #45: June 2022

How are we doing in our strive for operational excellence? Read on to find out! Incidents There were 6 incidents in June this year. That's double the median of three per month, over the past two years (Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). 2022-06-01 cloudelastic

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #44: May 2022

when we had eleven (Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>, Excellence monthly of June 2019 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/163/production_excellence_12_june_2019/>). I'd like to draw your attention to something positive. As you read the below

[Wikitech-l]  Amir Sarabadani receives Web Perf Hero award!

I'm happy to share that the first Web Perf Hero award of 2022 goes to Amir Sarabadani! This award is in recognition of Amir's work (@Ladsgroup) over the past six months, in which he demonstrated deep expertise of the MediaWiki platform and significantly sped up the process of saving edits in

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #43: April 2022

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents Last month we experienced 2 (public) incidents. This is below the three-year median of 3 incidents a month (Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). 2022-04-06 esams n

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 22.05 released!

This release promotes Node.js 14 to be the default for the fresh-node command. Get started by installing, updating, or learning more, at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh#fresh-environment Changelog: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh/+/22.05.1/CHANGELOG.md Node.js 14 is now the default

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #42: April 2022

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents We've had quite the month, with 8 documented incidents. That's more than double the two-year median of three a month (Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). 2022-03-01

[Wikitech-l] Re: Different cache invalidation rules for similar users?

age has a history of two revisions, both 25 Mar, about 10 minutes apart. Is the reported issue that its last edit [1] was seemingly not applied for some editors? E.g. they kept getting the previous version with the getElementByID error? -- Krinkle [1] https://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?

[Wikitech-l] Re: Different cache invalidation rules for similar users?

out before the 7 day expiry despite no observed edit or purge. To know for sure, I would need to see the specific script edit and how the script is loaded. -- Krinkle ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe sen

[Wikitech-l]  SD0001 receives Web Perf Hero award!

I'm happy to share that the next Web Perf Hero award goes to SD0001, in recognition of their many contributions and positive impact on the performance of Wikimedia software. I'll share two major examples. SD0001 implemented Package files

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.38 release blockers

I'd like to draw some attention to the current outstanding release blockers. >From https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.38-release/, 8 tasks as queried from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/2YXgSfsvECyO/#R 1. T261329 Prepare Parsoid for MW 1.38 (ideally)

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #41: February 2022

dent graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>. Incident follow-up Remember to review and schedule Incident Follow-up work <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4758/> in Phabricator, which are preventive measures and tech debt mitigations written down after an incident

[Wikitech-l] Re: Best practices for extensions

w.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wqvqvhgsvpu1je15> (Do we re-incorporate some of it? And how? How much do we duplicate? If not, what should we do instead?) -- Timo On Thu, 27 Jan 2022, at 04:43, Krinkle wrote: > Hi all, > > You may be familiar with the Best practices for extensions > &

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 22.01 released!

This release adds the npx command, and updates Firefox (78esr to 90esr) and Chromium (90 to 97). Get started by installing, updating, or learning more, at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh#fresh-environment Changelog: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh/+/22.01.1/CHANGELOG.md As a

[Wikitech-l] Re: Best practices for extensions

t follow a different coding style, or don't follow any (publicly known) guidelines. There is one line in the TLDR of my email where I called upon tech leads among WMDE/WMF staff. I recognise this may have set a confusing tone. -- Timo > On 1/27/22 05:43, Krinkle wrote: >> TLDR: Tec

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #40: January 2022

years prior (2019-2020). I'm glad to announce our median has lowered to 3 per month over the past two years (2020-2021). For more plots and numbers about our incident documentation, refer to Incident stats <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>. Since the previous edition, we reso

[Wikitech-l] Best practices for extensions

TLDR: Tech leads please review Best practices for extensions on mediawiki.org. Hi all, You may be familiar with the Best practices for extensions page on

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #39: December 2021

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents One documented incident last month (Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). 2021-12-03 mx <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-12-03_m

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #38: November 2021

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents 6 documented incidents last month. That's above the two-year and five-year median of 4 per month (per Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). 2021-11-04 large file

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #37: October 2021

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents There were 4 documented incidents last month. This is currently on average, compared to the past five years (per Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). 2021-10-08 n

[Wikitech-l]  Umherirrender receives Web Perf Hero award!

We are happy to announce that Umherirrender has received this quarter's Web Perf Hero award. Umherirrender has initiated and carried out significant improvements to the performance of MediaWiki user preferences (T278650 , T58633

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #36: September 2021

/phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4758/> in Phabricator, which are preventive measures and tech debt mitigations written down after an incident is concluded. See also Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>. Trends The month of September saw 24 new production error

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 21.09 released!

This release includes Node.js 12 and npm 7. Get started by installing, updating, or learning more, at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh#fresh-environment Changelog: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh/+/21.09.1/CHANGELOG.md This release upgrades the default "fresh-node" command to the

[Wikitech-l] Is the "clearyourcache" message still useful?

TLDR: If you use "hard refresh" in your browser after editing a CSS or JS page on the wiki, I'd like to hear about it so as to figure out whether there may be a bug in the software. Please do test and confirm it for yourself once more without a hard refresh, as it might just be an old habit acting

[Wikitech-l] Universal Edit Button: Remove redundant rel="edit" link head

As usual with experimental standards that ship in the wild with "temporary" semantics, the temporary semantics become defacto standard and the "future" standard remains reserved for theoretical future use. In T21165 I compare half a dozen

[Wikitech-l] Minor changes to MW logging as shown in Logstash

TLDR: The way key-values passed to $logger->debug() and $logger->warning() are shown in Logstash will soon change. The proposed transition will be forward- and backward- compatible for at least 90 days, so you can always find your logs in one place, and will not need to update any queries (yet).

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #35: August 2021

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents Zero documented incidents last month. Isn't that something! (Incident graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>) Learn about past incidents at Incident status <https://wikitech.wiki

[Wikitech-l] Re: Action API: Removal of deprecated CSRF token parameters

New page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Deprecation_of_legacy_API_token_parameters On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 17:03, Petr Pchelko wrote: > […] > the following API endpoints were used to obtain a token: > > >- ‘rctoken’ in action=query=recentchanges [2] >- ‘rvtoken’ in

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #34: July 2021

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Incidents 3 documented incidents last month. That's at the median for the past twelve months, and slightly below the median of 4 over the past five years (Incident stats graphs <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/f

[Wikitech-l] Re: Goto for microoptimisation

For the record, I merged Tim's patch last week and was unaware of this email thread. My thinking was as follows: 1. The implementation does not depend on the goto statement. That is, it is not used to write overly-clever or complicated

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #33: June 2021

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Incidents 3 documented incidents. That's lower than June in the previous five years where the month saw 5-9 incidents. I've added a new panel ⭐️ to the Incident statistics <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK> tool. Th

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #32: May 2021

documented incidents (Incident stats <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>). Remember to review Preventive measures <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4758/> in Phabricator, which are action items filed after an incident. --- Trends In May, we unfortunately

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #31: April 2021

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Read on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/235/ Incidents 6 documented incidents. That's above the historical average <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK> of 3–4 per

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 21.04 released!

This release updates Chromium to 73, and fixes a bug where containers could sometimes keep running if you force-closed a terminal tab that still had an open fresh-node prompt. If you found that certain Selenium tests didn't pass locally after March 10th, this now fixed as well. [1] Thanks to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Herald rules

Have we considered asking upstream Phabricator to e.g. a non-blocking mode for a Herald rule? These would e.g. be processed post-send in PHP or in some other queued manner internally. It would likely need to be restricted and (to avoid notification complexity) might also be automatically tied to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dynamically declaring parser functions?

It might be (more) feasible to use Lua (and Extension:Scribunto) for this, or even just templates more generally, as this allows one to define on-wiki mechanisms dynamically in a more flexible way. (I've not fully read the thread, apologies if this is incompatible with a requirement, I thought

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #30: March 2021

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! Read on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/229/ Incidents 2 documented incidents. That's average for this time of year, when we usually had <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbY

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #29: February 2021

---  Thanks! Thank you to everyone else who helped by reporting, investigating, or resolving problems in Wikimedia production. Thanks! Until next time, – Timo Tijhof --- Footnotes: [1] Incident status Wikitech <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_status>. [2] Wi

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #28: January 2021

gating, or resolving problems in Wikimedia production. Thanks! Until next time, – Timo Tijhof --- Footnotes: [1] Incident status Wikitech <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_status>. [2] Wikimedia incident stats by Krinkle, CodePen <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/w

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 21.01.1 released!

We have published a new release of Fresh. This one improves support for ".env" files with MediaWiki-Docker (thanks Željko Filipin), and adds support Podman, a rootless Docker alternative (thanks Kunal Mehta). Get started by installing or updating, and learn more, at:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is preprocessDump.php still useful?

Drafted removal at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/659133 -- Timo On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:39 AM Krinkle wrote: > This script was created in 2011 and takes an offline XML dump file, > containing page content wikitext, and feeds its entries through the > Pre

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #27: December 2020

in Wikimedia production. Thanks! Until next time, – Timo Tijhof --- Footnotes: [1] Incident documentation 2020, Wikitech <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation#2021>. [2] Open tasks, Wikimedia-prod-error, Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/quer

[Wikitech-l] TechCom digest 2021-01-13

The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 13 January 2020. Present: Dan A, Daniel K, Tim S., Tim T. RFC: Introduce PageIdentity [Approved] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776 - Last Call is closed, approved. RFC: Normalize MediaWiki link tables -

[Wikitech-l] Is preprocessDump.php still useful?

This script was created in 2011 and takes an offline XML dump file, containing page content wikitext, and feeds its entries through the Preprocessor without actually importing any content into the wiki. The documented purpose of the script is to "get statistics" or "fill the cache". I was unable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Test runner Quibble 0.0.46 released

 Thanks Kosta and Antoine. Very exciting. Follow the roll out of Apache vs PHP dev server, at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225218 -- Timo On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 7:55 PM Antoine Musso wrote: > Hello, > > I am pleased to announce the release of Quibble 0.0.46 mainly driven by > Adam

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #26: November 2020

ator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Fw3RdXt1Sdxp/#R>. [3] Wikimedia incident stats, Krinkle, CodePen <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>. [4] Month-over-month, Production Excellence (spreadsheet) <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tRCh8aB0UYyLlhftvcHvhWH4-e7cF5V01XvRObTVgUI/edi

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-11-25

. Next week IRC office hours No IRC discussion scheduled for next week. You can also find our meeting minutes at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes -- Timo On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:59 PM Krinkle wrote: > This is the weekly TechCom board rev

[Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-11-25

This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting on Wednesday. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets. Activity since Monday

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #25: October 2020

til next time, – Timo Tijhof --- Footnotes: [1] Incident documentation 2020, Wikitech <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation#2019> [2] Open tasks in Wikimedia-prod-error, Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Fw3RdXt1Sdxp/#R> [3] Wikime

[Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-11-18

The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 18 November 2020. Present: Tim S, Daniel K, Timo T. New RFC: Provide mechanism for overriding configuration for browser tests - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267928 - TT: High time we resource this. Some previous research on this when we

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom topics 2020-11-04 (fixed)

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:50 PM Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:59 AM Daniel Kinzler > wrote: > >> TemplateData already uses JSON serialization, but then compresses the >> JSON output, to make the data fit into the page_props table. This results >> in binary data in ParserOutput,

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom topics 2020-11-04 (fixed)

On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 18:35, Dan Andreescu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 4:38 AM Daniel Kinzler > wrote: > >> Am 02.11.20 um 19:24 schrieb Daniel Kinzler: >> >> T262946 *"Bump Firefox >> version in basic support to 3.6 or newer"*: last call ending

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom topics 2020-11-04 (fixed)

*RFC: Expiring watch list entries* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124752 This just missed the triage window, but it looks like this was implemented and deployed meanwhile (it was in Phase 3). I'm proposing we put this on Last Call for wider awareness and so that the team can answer any

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making breaking changes without deprecation?

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:26 AM Robert Vogel wrote: > For the BlueSpice distribution ... > > * we have got ~90 active repos hosted on WMF Gerrit and another ~10 in our > internal Gitlab > > * we want to develop as much as possible on the public infrastructure of > the WMF, so the remaining

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #24: September 2020

wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Fw3RdXt1Sdxp/#R [3] Wikimedia incident stats. – https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK [4] Month-over-month plots. – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tRCh8aB0UYyLlhftvcHvhWH4-e7cF5V01XvRObTVgUI/edit?usp=sharing ___ Wikite

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-10-21

The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 21 October 2020. Present: Dan A, Tim S, Timo T. Should npm packages maintained by Wikimedia be scoped or unscoped? - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239742 - NL: Still in inbox - TT: Seems companies do this both ways at times.

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #23: July & August 2020

habricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query… <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/aKNrCHMosori/#R> [4] Open tasks. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query… <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Fw3RdXt1Sdxp/#R> [5] Wikime

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Library" for sharing useful resources for learning technical topics

Thanks for starting this Amir! I've merged some of my recommendations from [[mw:JSTIPS]] into it, and redirected that to your library going forward The collection is growing quite nicely at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Library. Check it out! -- Timo On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 7:39 PM Amir

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 20.08.1 released!

I've published a minor release to Fresh. It fixes compat for SELinux (thanks Marius Hoch), and updates the Docker image to match the latest WMF CI with npm 6.14 and Firefox 68.11 (thanks Antoine Musso). Getting started: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/fresh/#fresh-environment Changelog:

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-09-16

The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 2020-09-16. Present: Daniel K, Dan A, Giuseppe L, Tim S, Timo T. == Links Recommendations Service == * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261411 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252822 * GL: Idea is to store a blob of wikitext for every page *

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

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:00 AM Niklas Laxström wrote: > ma 14. syysk. 2020 klo 23.49 Tyler Cipriani (tcipri...@wikimedia.org) > kirjoitti: > > The number of new tasks being created with this tag in a given week is > > outpacing the number of tasks being closed in a given week: this past > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom board review 2020-09-07

The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 2020-09-09. Present: Daniel K, Dan A, Tim S, Timo T, Kate C. == Liberate the @ for AtEase == * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253461 * Checking in about next steps. * As a coding convention, it doesn’t need our involvement unless there’s a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we still need AtEase?

I've tuned the proposal based on the feedback gathered. Please take a moment to re-review, especially if you previously had concerns or otherwise prefer AtEase. -- Timo On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:46 PM Krinkle wrote: > It does the same as the @ operator, except that it takes care to prev

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions which host their code in-wiki

Hi Zoran, I like this idea! For several reasons, most of which are not new. What led you to wanting to archive them now? What are you looking to solve or improve? -- Krinkle On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 18:41, Zoran Dori wrote: > Hello everyone, > > on MediaWiki.org I've found a

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #22: June 2020

 Read on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/203/ --- How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! ##  Month in review * 4 documented incidents in June. [1] * 37 new production errors were filed and 27 were closed.

[Wikitech-l] New design for Stable interface policy

Based on recent CRs and feedback I've redesigned the recently updated Stable interface policy. Old: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Stable_interface_policy=3845486 New: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Stable_interface_policy I hope this is more approachable and easier to

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #21: May 2020

 Read on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/198/ --- How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! ##  Month in numbers * 5 documented incidents in May. [1] * 28 new production error tasks filed in May. [2] [3] * 68

[Wikitech-l] Help with memory leaks in a C# Mono application

Hi, I'm looking for help finding the cause(s) of a memory leak in the countervandalism CVNBot project. These bots provide users with filtered recent-changes information to patrollers on various big wikis (enwiki, commons, wikidata[1]) as well as from groups of small wikis combined (SWMT[1]). The

[Wikitech-l] RFC: Discourage use of ENUM in db schemas

Link . Various problems with ENUM have been presented, and it appears that its use cases may be better accommodate in db schemas for MediaWiki by other means. I'm looking for the following: * Success stories with ENUM (cases where it's not only good but

[Wikitech-l] (Low prio) Do we still need AtEase?

It does the same as the @ operator, except that it takes care to prevent a very bad bug that existed before PHP 7. Details at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253461 If there are other issues or benefits, please write them on the task. The overhead of AtEase is prerty minor, so really any

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #20: April 2020

 Read on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/193/ --- How are we doing on that strive for operational excellence during these unprecedented times? ##  Numbers for March and April * 3 documented incidents. [1] * 60 new Wikimedia-prod-error reports. [2] * 58

[Wikitech-l] Update on ResourceLoader debug mode

Hi, I've written down some observations, thoughts and ideas for ResourceLoader's debug mode. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85805. Do you like how it works today? Have suggestions for how it could be better? Let me know here, or on-task :-) I plan for it to be an iterative process.

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #19 (February 2020)

tps://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation#2020>, or Explore Wikimedia incident stats at <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK> (interactive). --- ##  Unset vs array splice Our error monitor (Logstash) received numerous reports about an “Undefined offset” error from

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence (January 2020)

 Read on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/180/ --- How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! ##  Month in numbers * 3 documented incidents. [1] * 26 new Wikimedia-prod-error reports. [2] * 26 Wikimedia-prod-error

[Wikitech-l] Remove "profileoutput" debug log channel from MediaWiki core

TLDR: If you use $wgDebugLogGroups['profileoutput'] in LocalSettings.php as a way to collect performance profiles from Tideways/XHProf, this will no longer receive messages in MediaWiki 1.35 and later. --- Hi, I've been auditing the Profiler component in MediaWiki and deprecating or

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence (December 2019)

actionables; check < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation#2019>. Explore Wikimedia incident graphs (interactive) at < https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>. --- ## *️⃣ Many dots, do not a query make! David Causse investigated a flood of exceptions from S

[Wikitech-l] WikimediaDebug v2 is here! – Staging, perf profiling, verbose log

WikimediaDebug is a browser extension to help debug WMF wikis in production. [1] TL;DR: * The popup has been redesigned (including dark mode support). * Support for Beta Cluster (including XHGui). * A new "Inline profile" option. For more details and a general overview of how WikimediaDebug

[Wikitech-l] New diff themes in Gerrit Old UI (Colorblind-friendly!)

Hi, I've implemented two new diff themes in Gerrit's old UI. They are meant to address the following two issues: 1. The default diff theme used in Gerrit places dark red and purple text on a dark red background (in removed code). This can be hard to read. Especially on a yellow-tinted monitor

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence (October 2019)

reports closed. [3] * 207 currently open Wikimedia-prod-error reports in total. [4] There were three recorded incidents last month, which is slightly below our median of the past two years. Explore this data: < https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>. To read more about these inc

[Wikitech-l] Fresnel 0.5.0 for MediaWiki (perf testing in CI)

This week Fresnel 0.5.0 was released and deployed to Jenkins. Highlighted changes: - Add support for Mann–Whitney U test. [1] – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223977, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann-Whitney_U_test - Switch regression detection from diffStdev to diffMannWhitney

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia production excellence (September 2019)

currently open Wikimedia-prod-error reports in total. [4] There were five recorded incidents last month, equal to the median for this and last year. – Explore this data at https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK To read more about these incidents, their investigations, and pending actionables; check

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia production excellence (August 2019)

reports closed. [3] * 210 currently open Wikimedia-prod-error reports in total. [4] The number of recorded incidents in August, at three, was below average for the year so far. However, in previous years (2017-2018), August also has 2-3 incidents. – Explore the data at https://codepen.io/Krinkle

Re: [Wikitech-l] PLURAL in mw.msg

ed in the block for message.text() and message.parse(), with mw.msg() being a shortcut for message.text(). Could be improved to mention there directly as well! -- Krinkle https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!/api/mw.Message-method-text https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!

[Wikitech-l] Fresh-node: 19.10.1

I've published a new version of Fresh. Fresh is a simple way to create light and fast isolated contexts in your Terminal. For example, when you need to run 'npm' commands that install and run code needed for ESLint, Grunt or Selenium tests. Get started at https://github.com/wikimedia/fresh See

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