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 3 to 4 pm UTC and
 * every first Wednesday of the month at 11 pm UTC in addition, starting August 1st, 2018.

The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. 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, July 18th 2018 (Wikimania Special)
Time: 3 pm UTC

Join the meeting:. If you are new to IRC, here are instructions for how it works.


 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))


 * Spoken languages:

English, German


 * Add your topic and name:
 * 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, but having difficulty figuring out the right approach. I see ExternalIdentifierRdfBuilder needs a  which comes from the   property, but couldn't see how to set that through the normal editor. I tried adding a   array entry directly in the database to   for the   property in question, but that doesn't have any impact on the RDF output when the property is in use. When I subsequently edit the property, it removes the   array entry from the database table--so I'm sure this is not the intended approach. Some pointers on how to map Wikibase properties to external vocabularies would be greatly appreciated! Dan scott (talk) 10:20, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

July 11th, 2018

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July 4th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE)) @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
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June 27th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @leszek_wmde (User:Leszek Manicki (WMDE)) @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE))
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June 20th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @Tonina_WMDE (User:Tonina Zhelyazkova (WMDE))
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June 13th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE)) @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
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June 6th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @Tonina_WMDE (User:Tonina Zhelyazkova (WMDE))
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May 30th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE)) @leszek_wmde (User:Leszek Manicki (WMDE))
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May 23rd, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @Tonina_WMDE (User:Tonina Zhelyazkova (WMDE))
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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

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @Tonina_WMDE (User:Tonina Zhelyazkova (WMDE))
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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

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE))
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Apr 18th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @jakob_WMDE (User:Jakob Warkotsch (WMDE))
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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

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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Mar 28th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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Mar 21th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Mar 14th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE))
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Mar 7th, 2018

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Feb 28th, 2018

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Feb 21st, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE))
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Feb 14th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE))
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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

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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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

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * 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.