Wikitech-l July 2024

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Change of deployment server on Monday 09:00 UTC
by Alexandros Kosiaris 30 Jul '24

30 Jul '24

Hi everyone, If you aren't deploying in production, you can skip the rest of this. On Monday 2024-07-29 09:00 UTC, I 'll be switching over the eqiad deployment server from deploy1002 to deploy1003. UX wise, this won't be different from the bi-annual switchover of deployment hosts we perform as part of the datacenter switchover. If you use the alias deployment.eqiad.wmnet, please note that the host key will change. You may want to run wmf-update-known-hosts-production if you get error/warnings. Please reach out if you encounter any issue, either by responding to this email or commenting in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364417 Regards, -- Alexandros Kosiaris Principal Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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Tech News 2024, week 31
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 29 Jul '24

29 Jul '24

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Parsoid Read Views roll out on English and Hebrew Wikivoyage this week
by C. Scott Ananian 29 Jul '24

29 Jul '24

Hello everyone, I am glad to inform you that as part of our continued rollout of Parsoid Read Views, Parsoid is expected to be turned on this week as the default read views renderer on English and Hebrew Wikivoyage. Here's the rationale <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Confidence_Framew…> behind our confidence to roll-out this experimental feature and collect feedback. This is an opportunity for continued experimentation as we increase the number of wikis using Parsoid for read views. If this disrupts your workflow, don’t worry you can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the page you’re navigating in the Tools submenu, as described at the Extension:ParserMigration <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserMigration> page. To report bugs and issues, please look at our known issues <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser_Unificatio…> documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5846>. There is more information about our roll-out strategy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Confidence_Framew…> available. Best regards, C. Scott Ananian <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CAnanian_(WMF)>, for the Content Transform Team

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Temporary accounts enabled in Wikimedia CI and deploying to testwiki next week
by Szymon Grabarczuk 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Greetings, This patch[0] sets the default configuration in Wikimedia CI to enable the temporary accounts feature.[1] This means: PHPUnit, Selenium, API-Testing, and QUnit tests run in an environment where temporary account autocreation is enabled. ## Why? Next week, the Trust and Safety Product team is deploying the temporary accounts feature to testwiki.[2] Later this year, we will move forward with deploying to other production wikis. By enabling temporary accounts in CI, we increase the likelihood that new code works smoothly with the temporary accounts feature. ## What do I need to do? This time, nothing. All MediaWiki core, extension and skins tests pass, whether temporary accounts are enabled or disabled.[3] For new PHPUnit tests, please make use of `TempUserTestTrait` to disable the temporary accounts feature for tests that make assertions specifically about anonymous IP editing. We also recommend that you enable temporary accounts in your local development environment by adding `$wgAutoCreateTempUser['enabled'] = true;` to your LocalSettings.php. ## Questions? Please contact us[4] or file a task on Phab and tag it with “#Temporary accounts”. [0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/980947 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/…, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Temporary_accounts [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348895 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355879 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Acco… Cheers, Kosta & Thalia, Trust and Safety Product and Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him) Lead Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Future of the Newsletter extension in meta
by Tony Thomas 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Dear Team, About six years ago, we deployed the Newsletter extension[1] to mediawiki.org. Since then, we've seen some active newsletters, with the most popular one boasting over 300 subscribers. Although there were many discussions about bringing this extension to the meta cluster, not much progress has been made. Recently, a few of us revisited these past discussions and began addressing the issue of "interwiki support" for the extension. Currently, the extension uses a local table and notifies locally on the wiki, and our goal is to make it global. Thanks to some discussions with Addshore and others in 2018, we came up with a plan to make the extension truly inter-wiki. Since I have been inactive for some time, I want some help to see if the plan still works, or if there is a better way to achieve this. The plan, in short was: 1. We install the extension on all wikis in the main cluster, but all installations point to one table in meta. We need to store some sort of a pointer in the table, hence to know what the siteId of the wiki is. I need some help/examples of how this can be done. Do we store $wgSiteId into one of the main tables, or is there some other id that we can store to identify a wiki in our clusters? Also see some initial WIP changes done during that time here [3]. Also, is it nice to have code that would look very wikimedia cluster specific in the extension? 2. Publishers publishing newsletter in their local wikis can either choose to make the newsletter available globally or locally. 3. Notifications of new newsletter issues <-- I need some clarity on this one as well, we could notify on the $wgSiteId if it exists, else on meta. So yes, we are looking for some help, specially on (1) above, and if someone has some inputs/comments, please reply here, or in the phab task [2]. Thank you. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newsletter [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110645 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter/+/446590 -- Tony Thomas @tonythomas01

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2024.07
by Kartik Mistry 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

We would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2024.07. This bundle drops support for '''MediaWiki 1.40''', and is compatible with '''MediaWiki >= 1.41.0'''. It requires '''PHP >= 7.4.0'''. The next MLEB is expected to be released in 6 months after '''MediaWiki 1.43 release'''. If there are important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB| https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]]. - Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2024.07.tar… - sha256sum: 81d2232577f8309cf3335073464f7c5be3c38b3703a858eac17061cca20daf2e - Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2024.07.tar… Quick links: - Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB - Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-i18n.lists.wikimedia.… - Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1464 Support Changes: - Drops support for MediaWiki 1.40, now compatible with MediaWiki >= 1.41. Future releases will only support the latest MediaWiki version, released semi-annually. Key Updates: - Includes localization and maintenance updates for various extensions, deprecations, and new features such as message group subscriptions, and a new API to mark a page for translation. -- Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી kartikm.wordpress.com

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End of goo.gl URL shortener
by Bináris 23 Jul '24

23 Jul '24

"Starting August 23, 2024, goo.gl links will start displaying an interstitial page for a percentage of existing links notifying your users that the link will no longer be supported after August 25th, 2025 prior to navigating to the original target page." In the next year the goo.gl links may cause problems, while as of August 25th, 2025 they cease working. Do you think this issue needs any central action? Of course, it may be handled locally, but not every wiki has bot owners for that. At least a global warning would be useful for communities. My idea is to install an abuse filter that warns users to avoid new goo.gl links, and change the existing ones by bot. Bináris

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Tech News 2024, week 30
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 23 Jul '24

23 Jul '24

Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/30> are available. *Feature News* - Stewards can now globally block <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_blocks> accounts. Before the change <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T17294> only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_locks> (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…> project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public. - Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs> (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Codex>. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:MinervaNeue> was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Codex> by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191156> - Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalVanishRequest>. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367329> - Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/10/%d9%90addressing-vandalism-with-a-tap…> highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone. - Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics <https://doc.wikimedia.org/generated-data-platform/aqs/analytics-api/referen…> analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [3] <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/19/commons-impact-metrics-now-available-…> *Project Updates* - Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist>. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language. *Learn more* - Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/17/building-towards-a-robust-multilingua…> . - How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/09/on-the-value-of-experimentation/> by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences#Objectives_and_Key_Results>, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiments:_conversationa…> and Add a Fact <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiment:Add_a_Fact>, to help take Wikimedia into the future. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/30> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* You can also get other news from the Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Bul…>. -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Movement Communications Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Local Wikipedias doesn't work
by Dušan Kreheľ 21 Jul '24

21 Jul '24

Local Wikipedias doesn't work D. K,

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Can somebody help review this banana-i18n PR?
by psnbaotg 20 Jul '24

20 Jul '24

Hello all, I hope the maintainer of banana-i18n take a look at this PR (https://github.com/wikimedia/banana-i18n/pull/79), which is a fix for this task (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359822). Thank you very much! Best, Diskdance

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