Wikitech-l January 2017

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EBNF grammar project status?
by Steve Bennett 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

What's the status of the project to create a grammar for Wikitext in EBNF? There are two pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitext_Metasyntax http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec Nothing seems to have happened since January this year. Also the comments on the latter page seem to indicate a lack of clear goal: is this just a fun project, is it to improve the existing parser, or is it to facilititate a new parser? It's obviously a lot of work, so it needs to be of clear benefit. Brion requested the grammar IIRC (and there's a comment to that effect at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7 ), so I'm wondering what became of it. Is there still a goal of replacing the parser? Or is there some alternative plan? Steve

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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 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 nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 23 Feb '23

23 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/pull/2692/files & https://github.com/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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O'Reilly free books
by Amir Ladsgroup 24 Jun '17

24 Jun '17

O'Reilly just published some of their popular books for free, either as part of open access movement or some kind of marketing (or both). I find them useful to Wikimedia developers. It supports several types of e-books so you can read it in your kindle, etc.: * Performance, Operations, Release engineering: http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/ * Programming, architecture, Open source culture: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/ * Security: http://www.oreilly.com/security/free/ * Web platform, design:

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productivity of mediawiki developers
by rupert THURNER 30 May '17

30 May '17

hi, is there a statistics about mediawiki developer productivity? i just fell over a couple of pages and i am quite impressed i must say: * gabriel, https://github.com/gwicke, 2'300 commits last year * jeroen, https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw, 3'700 commits a year * ori, https://github.com/atdt, 1'700 * james, https://github.com/jdforrester, 1'200 * yuri, https://github.com/nyurik, 900 * matt: https://github.com/mattflaschen, 400 commits rupert

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CREDIT next week, and a survey
by Adam Baso 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi everybody! As a reminder the CREDIT Showcase is next week on Wednesday, 1-February-2017 (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase for details). Also, as I mentioned previously we're conducting a survey about CREDIT. We'd appreciate your feedback! Here is a link to the survey (which is hosted on a third-party service), and, for information about privacy and data handling, the survey privacy statement. https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedAtyPfcEhT6OVd26… https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/CREDIT_Feedback_Survey_Privacy_Stateme… . This email is being sent to several mailing lists in order to reach multiple audiences. As always, please follow the list link at the very bottom of this email in case you want to manage your list subscription options such as digest, unsubscribe, and so on. And, as usual, if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT, here's some suggested verbiage. *Hi <FNAME>* *I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and Technology teams. * *CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The next CREDIT will be held on February 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC. * *There’s more info on MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links to video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.* *Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks. Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks working across the open source tech community: language detection, numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other things.* *If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.* *YOURNAME* Thanks! Adam Baso Director of Engineering, Reading Wikimedia Foundation abaso(a)wikimedia.org

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Parsoid: node 0.1x deprecated now; node 0.1x support will end March 31st, 2017
by Subramanya Sastry 08 Apr '17

08 Apr '17

The Parsing team at the Wikimedia Foundation that develops the Parsoid service is deprecating support for node 0.1x. Parsoid is the service that powers VisualEditor, Content Translation, and Flow. If you don't run a MediaWiki install that uses VisualEditor, then this announcement does not affect you. Node 0.10 has reached end of life on October 31st, 2016 [1] and node 0.12 is scheduled to reach end of life December 31st, 2016 [1]. Yesterday, we released a 0.6.1 debian package [2] and a 0.6.1 npm version of Parsoid [3]. This will be the last release that will have node 0.1x support. We'll continue to provide any necessary critical bug fixes and security fixes for the 0.6.1 release till March 31st 2017 and will be completely dropping support for all node versions before node v4.x starting April 2017. If you are running a Parsoid service on your wiki and are still using node 0.1x, please upgrade your node version by April 2017. The Wikimedia cluster runs node v4.6 right now and will soon be upgraded to node v6.x [4]. Parsoid has been tested with node 0.1x, node v4.x and node v6.x and works with all these versions. However, we are dropping support for node 0.1x right away from the master branch of Parsoid. Going forward, the Parsoid codebase will adopt ES6 features available in node v4.x and higher which aren't supported in node 0.1x and will constitute a breaking change. Subramanya Sastry (Subbu), Technical Lead and Manager, Parsing Team, Wikimedia Foundation. [1] Node.js Long Term Support schedule @ https://github.com/nodejs/LTS [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Releases [3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/parsoid [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149331

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