Wikitech-l January 2019

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

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New DB_REPLICA constant; DB_SLAVE deprecated
by Aaron Schulz 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

As of 950cf6016c, the mediawiki/core repo was updated to use DB_REPLICA instead of DB_SLAVE, with the old constant left as an alias. This is part of a string of commits that cleaned up the mixed use of "replica" and "slave" by sticking to the former. Extensions have not been mass converted. Please use the new constant in any new code. The word "replica" is a bit more indicative of a broader range of DB setups*, is used by a range of large companies**, and is more neutral in connotations. Drupal and Django made similar updates (even replacing the word "master"): * https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 * https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692/files & https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a023… I don't plan on doing anything to DB_MASTER, since it seems fine by itself, like "master copy", "master tape" or "master key". This is analogous to a master RDBMs database. Even multi-master RDBMs systems tend to have a stronger consistency than classic RDBMs slave servers, and present themselves as one logical "master" or "authoritative" copy. Even in it's personified form, a "master" database can readily be thought of as analogous to "controller", "governer", "ruler", lead "officer", or such.** * clusters using two-phase commit, galera using certification-based replication, multi-master circular replication, ect... ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Appropriateness_of_… *** http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium… -- -Aaron

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What would you like to see in gerrit?
by Paladox 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Hi, what would you like to see in gerrit or improved? I've been working been working on developing a plugin that pull's in zuul's status into PolyGerrit. See the running demo at https://imgur.com/a/uBk2oxQ . Im also planning on adding "recheck" and "check experimental" as buttons to PolyGerrit's ui to improve CI. This will help new users who can recheck (and existing users that either forgot they can type this or haven't learned yet). Note that i cannot promise that anything suggested in this thread will be worked on, but i can try my best. See tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214068 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214631 .

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Need Help To Spell4Wiki - Wiktionary Audio App
by Manimaran_K 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hello all, I am Manimaran. I am Free Software Activist and also android developer. I try to make app for contributing Wiktionary. Which help to record audio then upload to commons. I share my efforts to my blog. I face some problem on development. Any one can help me. *Blog* : https://manimaran96.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/spell4wiki-mobile-app-to-recor… *Source code* : https://github.com/manimaran96/Spell4Wiki *APK file* : https://github.com/manimaran96/Spell4Wiki/blob/master/apk_file/spell4wiki_1… *Issue* - When Uploading audio I got an error message* -> *{“error”:{“code”:”permissiondenied”,”info”:”The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: [[Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed users|Autoconfirmed users]], [[Wikipedia:Administrators|Administrators]], [[Wikipedia:User access levels#Confirmed|Confirmed users]].”,”*”:”See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.phpfor API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at < https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes.”},”servedby”:”mw1226″} - But My User name is confirmed via mail. Also Have permission to upload. Then I don’t know why comes this type of issue. - Also trying with other wikipedians username same error comes all of them.

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Old tiles.wfmlabs.org maps services need maintainers to keep them alive after december 18th
by Derk-Jan Hartman 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

This is just another small reminder that, because the servers which host tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org (wikiminiatlas) and overpass-wiki run on a version of the OS (Ubuntu Trusty) that is no longer supported (and hasn't been available for new instances since november 2017). These services need maintainers and support by community members in order to keep them alive after dec 18th (after which wmflabs will phase out those versions) and before the EOL of early 2019 of the OS. Unfortunately it seems no one is stepping up so far to convert these machines. This issue is tracked at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204506 As I was curious, I looked around on the tile server a bit and used what I could find to update https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/OSM_Tileserver#Technology_stack This is all the information that I could gather, but i'm FAR from sure if that is complete information and if I would break anything with a rebuild basing myself on that info, so any information on missing elements etc. would be appreciated. I've not gotten around to looking at wikiminiatlas. If the services are not rebuild then likely they will just disappear at some point for all layer variants. This includes the mapnik, black and white, hill shading, hike bike layers. As I have no idea how many users of these services there are, it is hard to say what the effect of that would be. DJ

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Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup
by Pine W 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Hi folks, Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting. There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that you would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and ideas from other Wikimedians. I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with software or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone number will be visible to other participants. The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live interpretation also. Here is information about how to connect: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210 Or iPhone one-tap : Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210# Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): Argentina: +54 341 512 2188 Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088 or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149 Canada: +1 647 558 0588 Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088 France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188 or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048 Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188 or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800 Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688 Italy: +39 069 480 6488 Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488 or +81 524 564 439 Mexico: +52 229 910 0061 or +52 554 161 4288 Spain: +34 84 368 5025 or +34 91 198 0188 Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434 or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488 Russia: +7 495 283 9788 United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874 or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088 US: +1 408 638 0986 or +1 646 558 8665 Meeting ID: 136 978 210 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC / 10:00 Pacific. Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_r…>, so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking. (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating, then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg> or this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488…>. I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation. Until next time, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Announcing zuul-status plugin for gerrit
by Paladox 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Hi, i am pleased to announce that the zuul-status plugin is now available for gerrit 2.16+. This plugin integrates the zuul status json response into gerrit displaying the jobs lined up and running. It's similar to how you would see it on https://integration.wikimedia.org/zuul/ apart from it will only show for your change only. This will improve the experience as you won't need to leave your change to get a live feed of your change as it progresses through checks. You can see the demo at https://imgur.com/a/uBk2oxQ Plugin at https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/admin/repos/plugins/zuul-status First commit: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/plugins/zuul-status/+/212103 The plugin uses PolyGerrit's ui rather then GWTUI as GWTUI has been removed upstream (from gerrit 3.0) and because PolyGerrit provides XSS protection.

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Your Participation Requested - Interview about your local development environment
by Jeena Huneidi 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Hello Everyone, I am working on improving developer productivity! Specifically, I am aiming to improve the local development environment. Satisfaction with the local development environment got the second lowest score in the developer satisfaction survey, and we (Release Engineering) would like to find out which things about it you like, and which are troublesome. In order to do so, we need your help! I’d love to have the opportunity to interview you about your local setup and/or observe how you interact with it. Please send me an email if you’d like to participate, and I or one of my colleagues will schedule some time with you. I’m looking forward to our conversations. This is a chance for you to shape the local development environment, so please don’t hold back :) Outcomes resulting from the interviews (non personally identifiable information) will be made available after analysis has been completed. -- Jeena Huneidi Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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