Wikitech-l September 2019

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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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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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Cloud VPS users, please claim your projects
by Andrew Bogott 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Every year or so the Cloud Services team tries to identify and clean up unused projects and VMs. We do this via an opt-in process: anyone can mark a project as 'in use,' and that project will be preserved for another year. I've created a wiki page the lists all existing projects, here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2019_Purge If you are a VPS user, please visit that page and mark any projects that you use as {{Used}}. Note that it's not necessary for you to be a project admin to mark something -- if you know that you're currently using a resource and want to keep using it, go ahead and mark it accordingly. If you /are/ a project admin, please take a moment to mark which VMs are or aren't used in your projects. When December arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming resources from unused projects. If you think you use a VPS project but aren't sure which, I encourage you to poke around on https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ to see what looks familiar. Worst case, just email cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org with a description of your use case and we'll sort it out there. Exclusive toolforge users are free to ignore this task. Thank you! -Andrew and WMCS team

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PLURAL in mw.msg
by Jeroen De Dauw 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

Hey, I have this message: Removed $1 {{PLURAL:$1|shape|shapes}} This message is used in JavaScript via mw.msg() to create an edit summary. Unfortunately this summary is showing up without the PLURAL function being rendered: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/146040/65845180-6cd43b80-e339-11e… The docs state that PLURAL is supported in JS: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API#Feature_support_in_JavaS…. I've also tried mw.message('my-key').parse() and some variants of that, though these all gave me the same result. Why is this not working and how can I fix it? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | www.EntropyWins.wtf <https://EntropyWins.wtf> | www.Professional.Wiki <https://Professional.Wiki> Entrepreneur | Software Crafter | Speaker | Open Souce and Wikimedia contributor ~=[,,_,,]:3

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Book referencing proposal
by Adam Wight 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

The German Technical Wishes team is planning to implement a feature we're calling "book referencing", which supports one level of nested references. This makes it possible to reference the same book several times in an article, pointing to various pages, without repeating the full citation. A more complete description of the feature and a screenshot is available below, please feel free to comment in Phabricator or on this thread. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234030 There has already been some community discussion, but since we're proposing a small change to wikitext (the <ref> tag will accept a new attribute), I thought it would be appropriate to wait for a round of technical feedback before we begin coding. Regards, Adam -- Adam Wight - Developer - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. - https://wikimedia.de

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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—October 2nd
by Trey Jones 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, Oct 2nd, 2019 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww Hope to talk to you in a week! Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC-4 / EDT

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Adding a gadget to VisualEditor
by Alain PERRY 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

Hello list, I was sent here from the #mediawiki IRC channel, I hope this is indeed the correct list to write to and ask you to please forgive me if it is not. First, a bit about myself: I'm no real developer, just a tech-savvy guy trying to build a wiki to document my employer's company inner workings. This last bit means documenting any piece of information we handle and our business processes in doing so. After testing a few wiki engines, I came to the conclusion that mediawiki with the cargo extension was what I was looking for. I also built a small extension to allow inclusion and edition of BPMN diagrams with the https://bpmn.io library. All in all, this is pretty basic. Then I came to the realization that if I wanted any lambda-user to be willing to contribute to the wiki content, I needed the Visual Editor. Deploying it was easy enough, and everything seems to be working fine at the moment. I however feel I should make it possible to include a BPMN diagram from the VE toolbar. Ideally, this will take the form of a "popup" that will include the bpmn.io modeler to edit the diagram. However, in order to achieve this goal, I have a whole damn lot to learn and to experiment with about VE. So I thought I should start with something a little humbler: a button that would just include some basic XML in the page (a special page already allows editing that part of the page, so this would already be convenient, though far from perfect). Using the gadgets example from the documentation on the mediawiki wiki, I'm able to insert content into the page. But that content is escaped if it includes XML and I have no idea from the API doc how to include something less basic than mere text (or than a given template, since the example actually shows how to do that). What I'm actually getting at is this: would someone with good knowledge of the API and some good old patience be willing to "tutor" me by giving pointers where I need them ? My first technical question would be this: I understand that my gadget can register a ve.ui.Command, that will in turn call a method on an ve.ui.Action object. I guess I should stick to the ContentAction one. But I'm not sure what the "content" parameter should contain if given an array. Is there, somewhere, some documentation I can read on this? Thanks a bunch for any help. Regards, -- Alain Perry

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