Wikitech-l May 2021

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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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Line numbering coming soon for syntax highlighting
by Johanna Strodt 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

// sorry for cross-posting Hello everyone, Here is another change from WMDE’s Technical Wishes team concerning syntax highlighting: Soon, line numbers will be shown in wikitext editors when you have the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror> extension) enabled.[1] The change will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. More information can be found on this project page. [2] We plan to deploy this with this week’s Mediawiki train, so it should be on wikis from April 13-15. As a first step, it will be available on the template namespace only. Deployment on other namespaces is planned for the near future. If you have any feedback, please let us know on the project’s talk page. [3] We hope line numbering will be useful to you! Johanna for the Technical Wishes team [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Talk_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering -- Johanna Strodt Projektmanagerin Kommunikation Communitys Technische Wunschliste Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! 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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Developer Portal content draft: A future central place which links key technical documents
by Andre Klapper 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

<tl;dr>: Your feedback is wanted on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_… Hi everyone, last year[1] the Developer Advocacy team started to work on a single, central entry point for developers and tech-minded people for Wikimedia's technical documentation[2]. A central entry point ("developer portal") would cover common technical use cases to allow existing and future technical contributors and developers to find the information they need. Each use case links to its most relevant documentation (i.e. to pages on wikitech or mediawiki.org). This is part of a larger initiative to implement an organization strategy for key technical documents: Understand challenges about finding and maintaining docs, identify key docs, and investigate ways to improve our workflows around documentation. So far we: * Researched and reviewed existing documentation venues and pages * Reviewed developer/documentation portals in the broader industry * Interviewed several engineering teams around technical documentation workflows, audiences, and key technical docs (the key themes from these conversations are available, see the link above) * Created an initial draft for the structure and content of the single entry point Now we would like to improve this initial content draft with your help. 1) Please take a look at the initial draft at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_… 2) Then, please help improve it by sharing your thoughts and feedback until *May 25th* at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_… Note that this is only a draft how to structure content. It is not a design or layout proposal and it is not an implementation. For additional future work, see also the Phabricator workboard[3]. Next steps include: * A session at the remote Hackathon (May 22-23; [4]) * Incorporate content improvements, based on your feedback * Check the documents linked from the single entry point proposal for accuracy * Investigate requirements for the technical implementation * Investigate improvements of processes around technical documentation (structure, locations, navigation, stewardship, etc). If you want to learn more about the project, please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal Thanks to everybody who has provided their valuable input to get to this stage, and thanks in advance to everyone who will! Cheers, andre [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-August/093773.html [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-portal/ [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Phabricator upstream shutdown
by Brian Wolff 05 Jun '21

05 Jun '21

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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New Code of Conduct committee candidates
by Amir Sarabadani 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hello, The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee candidates are (In alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Kunal Mehta - Martin Urbanec - MusikAnimal - Tony Thomas And auxiliary members will be (Also in alphabetical order): - Ariel Glenn - Effie Mouzeli - Huji - Jayprakash12345 - Nuria Ruiz You can read more about the members in the mediawiki.org page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates> . The changes compared to last term are: - Kunal Mehta is joining the main CoC committee - Ariel Glenn is coming back to auxiliary committee - Effie Mouzeli is joining auxiliary committee for the first time - Tonina Zhelyazkova is leaving the committee - Matanya and Tpt are leaving the auxiliary committee - I won't run for the chair this year. This is not the final structure. According to the CoC <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_m…>, the current committee publishes the new members and calls 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 *26 May 2021* and after that, the new committee will be in effect and will serve for a year. Amir, On behalf of the Code of Conduct committee Best

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Reconsidering of eligibility criteria for technical contributions in elections
by Jay prakash 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hello all, As the 2021 WMF Board elections have been announced, I have proposed to reconsider the eligibility criteria for “developers” and technical contributors, as the previous criteria do not make sense any longer and exclude several groups of contributors. A discussion has been started at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281977 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021#Re… . Please share your thoughts and feedback. Regards Jay Prakash (he/him) Volunteer Developer, Wikimedia

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