[Wikitech-l] mwmaint1001 has been replaced by mwmaint1002

PSA: if you need access to the mediawiki maintenance server, we are back in eqiad and mwmaint1001 was just a temporary replacement for terbium. The correct server name to use is now: mwmaint1002.eqiad.wmnet The fingerprints are on: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:SSH_Fingerprints/mwma

[Wikitech-l] New Reports in wikistats2: "top editors" (a.k.a most prolific contributors) and "top edited articles"

Hello, The analytics team would like to announce two new metrics available in wikistats2: 1. Top editors (a.k.a most prolific contributors) See example for Italian wikipedia: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/it.wikipedia.org/contributing/top-editors/normal|table|1-Month|~total 2. Top edited art

[Wikitech-l] Breaking change: return value for OutputPage::adaptCdnTTL() removed

There are no known users of the return value of OutputPage::adaptCdnTTL() according to https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/search/?q=adaptCdnTTL&i=nope&files=&repos= But our all-seeing eye does not see everything. Be it known that https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450075, just merged, removed the return

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] FileLinkTool

That is the smallest "tool" I've ever seen, adding a colon. Anyway Commons has this (since ever?) in the toolbar as button. Am Di., 9. Okt. 2018 um 23:46 Uhr schrieb Pine W : > Thanks, this looks like a nice addition that will cumulatively save people > a lot of time if used widely. I'm forwardi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Datacenter Switchback recap

A minor correction: > During the most critical part of the switch > today, the wikis were in read-only mode for a duration of 4 minutes > and 41 seconds. This was yesterday, not today. -- Alexandros Kosiaris ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@li

[Wikitech-l] Readers Monthly update for September 2018

Hello, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for September 2018. Feedback and questions are encouraged. ==Discussions== === Apps=== * Work is underway to bring Wikidata description editing to the iOS app. [0] === Web === * The Advanced mobile contribution

[Wikitech-l] Datacenter Switchback recap

Hello everyone, Today we've concluded the successful migration of our wikis (MediaWiki and associated services) from our secondary datacenter (codfw) back to the primary one (eqiad). During the most critical part of the switch today, the wikis were in read-only mode for a duration of 4 minutes and

[Wikitech-l] 2018-09-26 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

*https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-09-26 * *= 2018-09-26 =* == Callouts == Release Engineering: * *Deployments of MediaWiki with scap cause a spam of "web request took longer than 60 seconds and timed out"* ** https://p

[Wikitech-l] 2018-10-03 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

*https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-10-03 * *=2018-10-03=* == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * Actively working to eliminate ongoing messages from the mediawiki-e

[Wikitech-l] 2018-10-10 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-10-10 *=2018-10-10=* == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * * SRE: ** Switchover week, no train. Up to now traffic and mediawiki switchovers have succeeded * Release Engineering ** Blocked

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] Normalization of change tag schema

Hello, One other update regarding this: We just set reading to use the new change tag backend (and stop writing to ct_tag column) in mediawiki.org, test wikis and several other small wikis. This means if you are depending on ct_tag column, your tool/service will be broken soon. Also, since this ch