Wikitech-l September 2024

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User style to reduce Gerritbot comments on Phabricator
by Bartosz Dziewoński 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

Do your eyes glaze over when trying to make sense of Phabricator tasks with a long and troubled history of patches? Do you struggle to find the real people in the sea of automated bot comments? I've made myself a user style to compact the Gerritbot comments on Phabricator. You might like it too: https://userstyles.world/style/13140/wikimedia-phabricator-reduce-gerritbot… (See screenshots and installation instructions there.) -- Bartosz Dziewoński

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Phabricator upstream shutdown
by Brian Wolff 21 Mar '25

21 Mar '25

It sounds like phabricator upstream is going away: https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_op… Just curious, are we planning to continue using it long term or move to something else? -- Brian

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15 Feb '25

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The future of RSA certificates and TLS 1.2 at Wikimedia
by Brett Cornwall 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

The Wikimedia Foundation uses HTTPS to protect users from eavesdropping and tampering of Wikimedia project pages [1]. As time passes, security protocols gain advancements while weaknesses hamper established protocols. WMF monitors such developments and adjusts ciphers/protocols to provide a secure and performant browsing experience. Wikimedia projects serve RSA and ECDSA certificates; RSA certificates will be removed soon. Wikimedia projects are to serve only ECDSA certificates going … [View More]

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Article source code style guide
by Bináris 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Hi, is there anywhere a $subject? My first question is: is it better to leave an empty line under section titles or not? I would like to see pros and cons. Is there a consensus for preferred way? (I think source code style guides are primarily within the scope of programmers and not in that of users without programming experience, that's why I ask here.) -- Bináris

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Parsoid Read Views roll out on Bengali, Hindi, Pushto, and Turkish Wikivoyage this week
by C. Scott Ananian 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Hello everyone, I am glad to inform you that as part of our continued rollout of Parsoid Read Views, Parsoid will be turned on this week as the default read views renderer on Bengali, Hindi, Pushto, and Turkish Wikivoyage. Here's the rationale <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser%20Unification/Confidence%20Fr…> behind our confidence to roll-out this experimental feature and collect feedback. This is an opportunity for continued experimentation … [View More]

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[Google Season of Docs] Call for documentation projects and technical writers
by Alexandra Paskulin 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Hi all, We’re excited to announce Wikimedia’s participation in Google Season of Docs! 🎉 For the first time since 2020, Wikimedia is applying for Google Season of Docs[1]: a program that provides grants to technical writers to work on documentation for open-source projects. This year, we’ll be selecting one Wikimedia documentation project and, if accepted by Google, hiring one technical writer to complete the project. For details about the program and how to apply, see the wiki page[2]. … [View More]

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Changes to JavaScript documentation tools
by Alexandra Paskulin 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Hi everyone, tl;dr The tools we use to document Wikimedia JavaScript code are changing. In the short term, you can read the complete MediaWiki core JavaScript docs using the 1.41 version[0] while we migrate to the new system[1]. If you use JavaScript documentation on doc.wikimedia.org, please share your feedback on wiki[2]. Wikimedia JavaScript codebases are switching from using JSDuck[3] to JSDoc[4] for documentation. Started in 2016, this migration is necessary because JSDuck is currently … [View More]

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

24 Oct '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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Maintenance scripts are moving to Kubernetes
by Reuven Lazarus 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Hi all, With MediaWiki at the WMF moving to Kubernetes, it's now time to start running manual maintenance scripts there. Any time you would previously SSH to a mwmaint host and run mwscript, follow these steps instead. The old way will continue working for a little while, but it will be going away. What's familiar: Starting a maintenance script looks like this: rzl@deploy2002:~$ mwscript-k8s --comment="T341553" -- Version.php --wiki=enwiki Any options for the mwscript-k8s tool, as … [View More]described below, go before the --. After the --, the first argument is the script name; everything else is passed to the script. This is the same as you're used to passing to mwscript. What's different: - Run mwscript-k8s on a deployment host, not the maintenance host. Either deployment host will work; your job will automatically run in whichever data center is active, so you no longer need to change hosts when there’s a switchover. - You don't need a tmux. By default the tool launches your maintenance script and exits immediately, without waiting for your job to finish. If you log out of the deployment host, your job keeps running on the Kubernetes cluster. - Kubernetes saves the maintenance script's output for seven days after completion. By default, mwscript-k8s prints a kubectl command that you (or anyone else) can paste and run to monitor the output or save it to a file. - As a convenience, you can pass -f (--follow) to mwscript-k8s to immediately begin tailing the script output. If you like, you can do this inside a tmux and keep the same workflow as before. Either way, you can safely disconnect and your script will continue running on Kubernetes. rzl@deploy2002:~$ mwscript-k8s -f -- Version.php --wiki=testwiki [...] MediaWiki version: 1.43.0-wmf.24 LTS (built: 22:35, 23 September 2024) - For scripts that take input on stdin, you can pass --attach to mwscript-k8s, either interactively or in a pipeline. rzl@deploy2002:~$ mwscript-k8s --attach -- shell.php --wiki=testwiki [...] Psy Shell v0.12.3 (PHP 7.4.33 — cli) by Justin Hileman > $wmgRealm = "production" > rzl@deploy2002:~$ cat example_url.txt | mwscript-k8s --attach -- purgeList.php [...] Purging 1 urls Done! - Your maintenance script runs in a Docker container which will not outlive it, so it can't save persistent files to disk. Ensure your script logs its important output to stdout, or persists it in a database or other remote storage. - The --comment flag sets an optional (but encouraged) descriptive label, such as a task number. - Using standard kubectl commands[1][2], you can check the status, and view the output, of your running jobs or anyone else's. (Example: `kube_env mw-script codfw; kubectl get pod -l username=rzl`) [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes/Kubectl [2]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/quick-reference/ What's not supported yet: - Maintenance scripts launched automatically on a timer. We're working on migrating them -- for now, this is for one-off scripts launched by hand. - If your job is interrupted (e.g. by hardware problems), Kubernetes can automatically move it to another machine and restart it, babysitting it until it completes. But we only want to do that if your job is safe to restart. So by default, if your job is interrupted, it will stay stopped until you restart it yourself. Soon, we'll add an option to declare "this is idempotent, please restart it as needed" and that design is recommended for new scripts. - No support yet for mwscriptwikiset, foreachwiki, foreachwikiindblist, etc, but we'll add similar functionality as flags to mwscript_k8s. Your feedback: Let me know by email or IRC, or on Phab (T341553 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341553>). If mwscript-k8s doesn't work for you, for now you can fall back to using the mwmaint hosts as before -- but they will be going away. Please report any problems sooner rather than later, so that we can ensure the new system meets your needs before that happens. Thanks, Reuven, for Service Ops SRE [View Less]

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