Technical Advice IRC Meeting



Hello and welcome to the Technical Advice IRC Meeting - the weekly support meeting for volunteer developers on !

The meeting takes place every Wednesday from 4 to 5 pm UTC.

Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.

We will try to help you as good as we can.

All questions are welcome! If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting, so that we can prepare the meeting or ask an expert for your issue to join if needed. Of course it is always possible to check in spontaneously!

Next meeting on Wednesday, January 16 2019
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December 12 2018, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE))
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December 5 2018, 11 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @tgr (User:Tgr (WMF)) @nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF))
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December 5 2018, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph Jauera (WMDE)) TBA
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November 28 2018, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics:
 * Roy Smith. I'm interested in T72239.  See this thread on en for some background.  My original thought (before I knew null revisions existed) was to query both the revision and log tables and interpolate the events from them.  Looking at the two approaches, I can see advantages to either.  The display time interpolation doesn't require changing how data is written, but it does require more database queries at display time.  I've been looking to get involved in mediawiki development, and this seems like it might be a good starter project.  I'm a recently retired software engineer, most recently with Google.  I don't always like to admit it, but I have done some PHP development in my past :-)

November 21th 2018, 4 pm UTC

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 * As a tool maintainer I would be interested in using Grafana to keep track of important metrics on my services. Is it possible - if not are there any alternatives? − Pintoch (talk) 12:12, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

November 14th 2018, 4 pm UTC

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November 7th 2018, 11 pm UTC
@nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF))
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November 7th 2018 2018, 3 pm UTC
@Tim_WMDE (User:Tim Eulitz (WMDE))
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October 31st 2018, 3 pm UTC

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October 24th 2018, 3 pm UTC

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 * Creating tests for Special pages. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 15:03, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
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October 17th 2018, 3 pm UTC

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 * How to get Code review for patchepatches just noone reviews. --MGChecker (talk) 07:10, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

October 10th 2018, 3 pm UTC

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October 3rd 2018, 11 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @subbu (User:SSastry (WMF)) @tgr (User:Tgr (WMF))
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October 3rd 2018, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @bawolff (User:Bawolff) Jon Robson (User:Jon_(WMF))
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September 26th 2018 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE))
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With kiwix,We have install Wikipedia on raspberry pi zero, are you interested to hear about it?
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 * luglimbe
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September 19th 2018 3 pm UTC

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September 12th 2018 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE)) @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
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September 5th 2018 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Tim_WMDE (User:Tim Eulitz (WMDE)) @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
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September 5th 2018 11 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @RoanKattouw (User:Roan Kattouw (WMF)) @Niharika (User:NKohli (WMF))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * Debugging CI problems is difficult, especially if the last commit in the project is months ago. How can one run quibble locally and set up daily tests? --Physikerwelt (talk) 13:31, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
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August 29nd 2018 3 pm UTC

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August 22nd 2018 3 pm UTC

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August 15th 2018 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Tonina_WMDE (User:Tonina Zhelyazkova (WMDE)) @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
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August 8st 2018 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @leszek_wmde (User:Leszek Manicki (WMDE)) @jakob_WMDE (User:Jakob Warkotsch (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Polish, Finnish
 * Preannounced Topics
 * For T200814, we might need something like a  magic word. Such a magic word has been requested for ages (T4085), and would in the past have caused problems with the cache; I would appreciate any information on how feasible it would be to introduce this today. --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 16:27, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
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August 1st 2018 3 pm UTC

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 * Preannounced Topics
 * Using Rust to write a webservice Enterprisey (talk) 18:44, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Details regarding wikidata constraints Adrian Bielefeldt (talk) 11:35, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
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August 1st 2018 11 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @bd808 (User:BDavis (WMF)) @mooeypoo (User:MSchottlender-WMF)
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 * Multilanguage SVG using vs Multiple SVGs with translations. -jem- (talk) 22:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
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July 25th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE)) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph Jauera (WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * Accessing the database during extension registration. (ChronologyProtection issues) &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 10:08, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

July 18th, 2018 (Wikimania Special)
... results in Q16 getting the URL formatted in HTML to point to https://example.org/url-formatter/123, but not showing any corresponding mapping for P22 when I request the RDF representation in Turtle. What am I missing? Thanks! Dan scott (talk) 14:04, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
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 * Accessing the database during extension registration, using OOUI icons in CSS in a skin and dealing with hiding headers provided for screen readers. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 18:40, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Wikibase: Starting with a fresh Wikibase 1.30 docker instance, I'm trying to align properties to external RDF vocabularies. It looks like  as documented in options.wiki is what I'm looking for, but testing that by:
 * 1) Creating properties   and   with data type , and   with data type
 * 2) Changing   to have
 * 3) Giving   a statement of   and
 * 4) Creating a new item   with statements
 * Resolution: the required code is in the 1.31 release, which is not yet in the docker image (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197212 is tracking that task) Dan scott (talk) 16:00, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

July 11th, 2018

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July 4th, 2018

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June 27th, 2018

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June 20th, 2018

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June 13th, 2018

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June 6th, 2018

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May 30th, 2018

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May 23rd, 2018

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May 16th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE))
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May 9nd, 2018

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May 2nd, 2018
Bencemac (talk) 14:20, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hosts/Mentors: @Tonina_WMDE (User:Tonina Zhelyazkova (WMDE)) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * T189376: AutoWikiBrowser-related problem, affects characters using acute accent.
 * T185423: community wish on huWiki, finding a volunteer would be great.

Apr 25th, 2018

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Apr 18th, 2018

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 * Preannounced Topics
 * qacct Sun Grid Engine utility takes a very long time to display results. I am guessing that the log file is quite large. Maybe the log file could be pruned to the last month. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:41, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Part usability, part frustration prevention of (OOUI) HTMLForms. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 17:58, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Apr 11th, 2018

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Apr 4th, 2018

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Mar 28th, 2018

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Mar 21th, 2018

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Mar 14th, 2018

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Mar 7th, 2018

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Feb 28th, 2018

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Feb 21st, 2018

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Feb 14th, 2018

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Feb 7th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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Jan 31st, 2018

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 * Preannounced Topics
 * Caching services and implementing SalvageableService, specifically in a multi-wiki environment. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 11:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Jan 24th, 2018

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 * 0. Do you mean January 24? 1. A question that I asked a few days ago but that found no answer: does someone know a good channel/other way to resolve an enourmous heap of failed logins to my bot account [GiftBot@dewiki]? i'd like to have a way to see if my scripts cause those echo messages or some attacker – Giftpflanze (talk) 13:07, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Jan 17th, 2018

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Jan 10th, 2018

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Jan 3rd, 2018

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Logs of the Technical Advice IRC Meetings of the year 2017 are in the archive.