Wikitech-l April 2020

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 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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List related to repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer
by Zoran Dori 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Hello, can someone to update list https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10500 which contains repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer. I found in list that much repositories are empty, and repositories which aren't available on Gerrit. So, can someone please update this list of repositories (in mediawiki/extensions) which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer, but at least, contains one PHP file. or to provide me command with which I can update list when I want, so I don't need to request it every time. Best regards, Zoran. P. S.: Happy weekend! :)

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realtime notifications disabled in Phabricator
by Daniel Zahn 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Phabricator users, this is to let you know that the "aphlict" service has been disabled on Phabricator (for now) because it caused stability issues. This means you will not get realtime (pop-up) notifications on Phabricator. (If you had those enabled in the first place). Regular notifications (that do not pop-up) and emails are not affected by this. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238593 -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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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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Technical Wishes: Interface for edit conflicts on talk pages
by Max Klemm 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

// sorry for cross-posting Hello, A lot of heated discussion occur on talk pages – thus, edit conflicts happen on talk pages a lot. To be able to solve these more effectively, the Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional user interface for this situation. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project page [1]. This interface is created as a result of the Technical Wishes survey [2] in 2015, in which the German Wikipedia community wished for a simpler way to resolve edit conflicts. For regular edit conflicts on article pages, the two column conflict user interface was created, which has been available as a beta feature since November 2018. The plan is to make this additional interface for talk pages available in a few months. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature and let us know what you think on our central feedback page [3]! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_c… [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_20… [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View -- Max Klemm Working Student Community Communication for Technical Wishes Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0https://wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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New Code of Conduct committee candidates
by Amir Sarabadani 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Hello, The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee candidates are (In alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Martin Urbanec - MusikAnimal - Tonina Zhelyazkova - Tony Thomas And auxiliary members will be (Also in alphabetical order): - Huji - Jayprakash12345 - Matanya - Nuria Ruiz - Tpt You can read more about the members in [0] The changes compared to last term are: * Lucie has resigned in September 2019. Tpt (as one of auxiliary members) filled her seat in the meantime and now Tpt is moving to be an auxiliary member again. * Martin Urbanec is joining the main committee to fill Lucie/Tpt seat * Jay Prakash is joining auxiliary members * Rosalie is leaving the auxiliary members. This is not the final structure. According to the CoC [1], the current committee publishes the new members and call for public feedback for *six weeks* and after that, the current committee might apply changes to the structure based on public feedback. Please let the committee know if you have any concern regarding the members and its structure until *09 June 2019* and after that, the new committee will be in effect and will serve for a year. [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_m… Amir, On behalf of the Code of Conduct committee Best

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Meet
by Amir Sarabadani 09 May '20

09 May '20

Hey, A quick update. In order to improve its security, from now on, ticketmasters don't need to know your username and password (and don't send them your desired username and password anymore). You ask them a token and they generate you an one-time-use token for you and then you can use that in https://meet-auth.wmflabs.org/create to create your account for yourself. Stay safe, stay home. On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:11 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > I told so many times WMF should support infrastructure for the > volunteers, so thank you very much for this step in that direction. > A.M. > > Il domenica 26 aprile 2020, 01:08:01 CEST, Tito Dutta < > trulytito(a)gmail.com> ha scritto: > > Hello, > That's super great news. I definitely want to try it. Thanks a lot for > working on this. > > Thanks > Tito Dutta > Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind > me over email or phone call. > > > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 01:57, Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey, > > "Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in > Wikimedia > > CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using commercial > > services like Zoom which might have security and privacy implications > > [1][2]. Currently it's a jitsi (jitsi.org) installation. > > > > If you want to just use/test it, let me know and I create you a user and > > password. You can share the username and password with anyone you want to > > meet but please do not post it publicly. In your email you can also give > me > > your desired user and password. **Do not reuse any password**. You can > also > > contact any of the ticketmasters instead of me: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet#List_of_ticketmasters > > > > In order to make this project more robust, I'm looking for Ticketmasters > > too, Ticketmasters create accounts for others (It doesn't require any > > technical knowledge, you fill a form in web for others) > > > > If you want to help maintaining it (which would be greatly appreciated) > let > > me know and I give you the needed access. I put the technical > documentation > > in mediawiki.org [3]. There are several bits you can help with, like > > puppetizing it, scalability, observability, improving authentication, > > trying to see if BBB can be used as well, and so much more. You can find > > the tickets in the phabricator board and assign a ticket to yourself if > you > > feel like helping out. > > > > [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet > > [1] https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/ > > [2] > > > > > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security… > > [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet > > > > Hope that would be useful for our users :) > > Best > > -- > > Amir (he/him) > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Amir (he/him)

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