Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20130826
August 26[edit]
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 theyâre 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.
- issue of spaces vs tabs (oh god!)
Beta A couple extensions setup that have been requested:
- Bug 53061 - configure Flow on beta
- Bug 51580 - configure beta labs for SUL2
Other
- 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.
tin:~$ mwscript eval.php --wiki=arwiki > return wfMessage( 'linkprefix' )->inContentLanguage()->text() /^(.*?)([a-zA-Z\x80-\xff]+)$/sD >