Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20130826

August 26
Who Nik Everett, Antoine Musso, Bryan Davis, Brad, Chris S, Chad, Rob, Aaron, NSA

Absent: Greg, Tim, Brian

HTTPS
 * Status etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/HTTPS1308 (spoiler: on track for Wed)

OAuth:
 * could use some usability work
 * enabled on mediawiki.org, does not exist on beta. Might need some configuration love :)
 * Smoke tests!

Search: Still working on bugs. Getting ready for a deploy to mediawiki.org on Wednesday. Big new features:
 * templates are expanded before they’re indexed
 * multiple search parameters (e.g. incategory:) are possible

Release management/QA
 * Review queue is getting smaller.
 * CodeEditor on Thursday
 * issue of spaces vs tabs (oh god!)
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39616
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80843/
 * Resolution: Talk about it on the mailing list. Live with the result.

Beta A couple extensions setup that have been requested:
 * Bug 53061 - configure Flow on beta
 * Bug 51580 - configure beta labs for SUL2

Other tin:~$ mwscript eval.php --wiki=arwiki > return wfMessage( 'linkprefix' )->inContentLanguage->text /^(.*?)([a-zA-Z\x80-\xff]+)$/sD >
 * Bug 52870 - Install Education Program extension on pt.wikipedia. Needed by brazilian education program.
 * been asked several time in #wikimedia-operations today
 * Ping Sam about this
 * Multimedia tech debt grooming: bd808 needs some feedback/hand holding
 * will be following up on eng-l soon for wider feedback
 * Bug 52865: (arwiki edit timeouts) Looks like a slightly slow regex called lots of times when link prefixes are enabled for the language.