Re: [Wikitech-l] Scrum of scrums/2019-11-20

[Manuel Arostegui]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 8:47 PM Željko Filipin 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for HTML version see
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-11-20
>
> Željko
>
> --
>
> = 2019-11-20 =
>
> == Callouts ==
> ** SRE:
> *** DBAS [general update] Upcoming s1 (enwiki) database master switch 14
> Nov: [[phab:T234800]] [will imply a small read only window]
>
>
s1 happened already - the next switchover we have scheduled will happen
Tuesday 26th Nov (s7 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238044)

Thanks
Manuel.
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[Wikitech-l] 2020 Community Wishlist Survey: Now Accepting Votes

[Ilana Fried]

The 2020 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting votes! This survey is
the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should
work on over the next year. From now until 2 December, you can vote for
which proposals you want us to address. We'll accept the top 5 wishes into
our plans for next year.How to vote: Use the "Support" button at the top of
each proposal. You can vote for as many proposals as you like. You're also
allowed to canvas and encourage other editors to vote for a particular
proposal.If you have questions about the survey, you can check out the
survey page. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your votes!Links:
• Survey Page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020
• Voting Rules:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020#voting
• Proposals (click on a proposal to cast your vote):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Tracking
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Test Install of MediaWIki for Experimentation

[bawolff]

There is also https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page &
https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
test.wikipedia.org is closer to the main site (running basically the
version of MW used on wikipedia, and all the user accounts are integrated),
and should not be used for any sort of testing that could be "disruptive".
the test wikis under *.beta.wmflabs.org are more experimental, and runs the
most latest version of mediawiki. Generally I'd recommend testing on the
beta site since it is using the absolute newest version of MediaWiki.

--
Brian

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 9:14 PM Zoran Dori  wrote:

> Hi,
> there is https://test.wikipedia.org https://test2.wikipedia.org
>
> If you want to install it on your own, see
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide
>
> Best regards,
> Zoran.
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[Wikitech-l] [Tech Talk - Special Edition] Camille Fournier: The Manager's Path | 5, December 2019, 8 PM UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi All,

On* 5, December 2019, 8 PM UTC*, we'll welcome Camille Fournier for a
special edition of Wikimedia Tech talks! Camille will share insights from
her career and discuss her book, “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech
Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

.”

Camille Fournier is the head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, a
financial company in New York City. Prior to joining Two Sigma, she was
the Chief Technology Officer of Rent the Runway
, a transformative brand that offers
unprecedented access to designer fashion, disrupting the way millions of
women get dressed.

She is an Open Source contributor and project committee member for both
Apache ZooKeeper and the Dropwizard web framework. Prior to working for
Rent the Runway, Camille served as a software engineer at Microsoft, and
most recently, spent several years as a technical specialist at Goldman
Sachs, creating distributed systems for managing risk analysis and firmwide
infrastructure.

She has a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS
in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Camille is a
well-respected voice within the tech community, speaking on a variety of
topics such as engineering leadership, distributed systems, scaling teams,
and technical architecture.


You can view the talk live and ask questions here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNtFUt0vR58


Questions will also be taken through #wikimedia-office IRC


*Feel free to share this announcement! *


Kindly,


Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy

srodl...@wikimedia.org
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Test Install of MediaWIki for Experimentation

[Egbe Eugene]

Thanks very much Zoran.

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 22:14 Zoran Dori  wrote:

> Hi,
> there is https://test.wikipedia.org https://test2.wikipedia.org
>
> If you want to install it on your own, see
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide
>
> Best regards,
> Zoran.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Test Install of MediaWIki for Experimentation

[Zoran Dori]

Hi,
there is https://test.wikipedia.org https://test2.wikipedia.org

If you want to install it on your own, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

Best regards,
Zoran.
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[Wikitech-l] Test Install of MediaWIki for Experimentation

[Egbe Eugene]

Hi All,

is there a test version of MediaWiki which is open to developers such as
test commons and the rest?

Thanks
Eugene
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[Wikitech-l] Scrum of scrums/2019-11-20

[Željko Filipin]

Hi,

for HTML version see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-11-20

Željko

--

= 2019-11-20 =

== Callouts ==
** SRE:
*** DBAS [general update] Upcoming s1 (enwiki) database master switch 14
Nov: [[phab:T234800]] [will imply a small read only window]
*** Requesting follow-up from Scoring team [[phab:T233448#5638765]]
*** Requesting follow-up from Releng team [[gerrit:479139]]
** Release Engineering: no train because of team offsite

== Product ==

=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by:
**Core Platform
***release wikidiff2 to get section titles from compare endpoint
***counts endpoint limit increases
***minor count endpoint failing (
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Barack_Obama/history/counts/minor
)
* Updates:
**6.5 wrapping up bugs/development - [[phab:project/view/4245]]
***aiming to be in public beta Friday (11/22)

=== Android native app ===
* Updates:
** Our major release is all set to go out the door.:
[[phab:project/view/4123]]
*** Fundraising banner is ready and in review.
*** We have re-started work on integration with mobile-html endpoint.

=== Product Infrastructure ===
* Updates:
* Patches for client-side error logging and EventLogging client improvements
* Security review followups for MachineVision
* Reviewing MCS overhaul patches
* Wikifeeds
** Removed frwiki from supported TFA wikis due to [[phab:T237790]]
** Patch in review for upgrading to Node 10 -- just need confirmation from
CPT that this won’t cause any problems

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
** WMDE/Wikidata: review of [[gerrit:548734]] ([[phab:T222497]])
* Blocking:
** Search Platform: Data dumps for SDC: [[phab:T221917]]

=== Parsing ===
* Blocked by:
** deployment recipe issues need resolving before we do additional live
traffic deploys ([[phab:T238685]] and [[phab:T238748]])
** (soft blocker) still working to get all parsoid clients tested against
parsoid/php (Content translation and flow)
* Updates:
** parsoid/php is on testwiki -- see wikitech-l mail from y'day

=== Inuka ===
* Updates:
** PageViews instrumentation: [[phab:T238029]]

== Technology ==

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Updates:
** CiviCRM
*** More tweaks to how we import data from our bulk mailing provider
*** Changes to our custom drupal code to accommodate using a read-only
database connection for some requests.
*** Still working on button to send end-of-year summary receipt on demand
[[phab:T221271]]
** CentralNotice
*** Trying to understand a few more oddities in the new EventLogging data
pipeline. For example, how are we getting  client-side
FundraiserLandingPage events without corresponding server-log pageviews?
[[phab:T236835#5670862]] ...see the section "Explaining orphaned events in
new logs"
*** Finishing up initally-contractor-written feature to extend geotargeting
to regions smaller than countries. [[phab:T226438]]

=== Core Platform ===
* Blocking:
** Potentially Wikidata/WMDE: Mentioned 2 times in SoS already with no
result: In the Data Bridge work (editing Wikidata items from Wikipedia) we
have encountered problems with Special:EntityData serving stale (old) data.
The problem is quite old:  [[phab:T128486]]. We are looking for a
team/person with whom we could get some clarity on the current state of the
cache solutions on WMF cluster, and figure out how to get  [[phab:T128486]]
unstuck.
**iOS
***release wikidiff2 to get section titles from compare endpoint
***counts endpoint limit increases
***minor count endpoint failing (
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Barack_Obama/history/counts/minor
)
* Updates:
** REST API extension interface documentation [[API:REST_API/Extensions]]

=== Engineering Productivity ===

 Release Engineering 
* Blocking:
** SRE:  Requesting follow-up from Releng team [[gerrit:479139]]
* Updates:
** Train Health
*** Last week: no train because of Wikimedia Technical Conference
*** This week: no train because of team offsite
*** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 [[phab:T233856]]

=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocking:
** SRE: Requesting follow-up from Scoring team [[phab:T233448#5638765]]
* Updates:
** Team back from offsite in Austin
** We got a laptop to Uganda via DHL in a reasonable amount of time.

=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
** Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: [[phab:T221917]]
* Blocking:
** WMDE/Wikidata: Not critically blocked by, but pinging the team to have a
look at [[phab:T234431]].
* Updates:
** New elasticsearch servers configured and in production
(elastic10[53-67].eqiad.wmnet) - [[phab:T230746]]
** Refactor Puppet WDQS module to make it usable for WDQS and CQS
[[phab:T232297]]
** Metrics from the WDQS updater are no longer collected [[phab:T238408]]

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** Scoring Platform team:
*** Requesting follow-up from Scoring team [[phab:T233448#5638765]]
** Releng:
*** Requesting follow-up from Releng team [[gerrit:479139]]
* Updates:
** [general update] Upcoming s1 (enwiki) database master switch 14 Nov:
[[phab:T234800]] 

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-11-20

[Alexandra Paskulin]

Hi all,

Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting:

* Discussed: RFC OpenGraph descriptions in wiki pages <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213505>.
This RFC discusses two approaches for generating wiki page descriptions in
OpenGraph protocol.

* Discussed: RFC Balanced templates <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114445>.
This RFC discussed the specification and implementation for a balance
property that
can be added to templates in MediaWiki.

* Discussed: RFC Process 2019 amendments <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216308>.
This RFC was discussed during last week’s Wikimedia Technical Conference.
See the task
for notes from the unconference session.

* No IRC discussion next week.

You can also find our meeting minutes at


See also the TechCom RFC board
.

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Best,
- Alex

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[Wikitech-l] First and last call: removing ApiQueryReferences

[Adam Wight]

The Cite extension implements an API `action=query=references`[1],
which was written to support a reference lazy-loading feature for mobile
clients but never used.  This was a beta feature and the API was never
enabled on Wikimedia sites.[2]  If you query it, you'll see nothing but an
error response.

My team is currently refactoring the Cite extension, and we would prefer to
remove the API rather than continue maintaining dead code.  Please respond
by the end of the week if you know of any non-Wikimedia sites where the API
is enabled and in use, otherwise we'll continue with the plan to remove it
without a deprecation period.

Thank you,
Adam

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help=query%2Breferences
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222373
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