Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2020-12-16

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The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 16 December 2020.

Present:  Daniel K., Tim S., Timo T.

Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit[edit]

  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213
  • Approved.
  • TechCom to amend the policy to add the exemption.
  • Gerrit admins to create the group and explain that they can decide who to be added, but that Phab tickets will be required still.

RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data[edit]

RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage.[edit]

  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771
  • Daniel to document concern about adopting false advertisement.
  • Daniel to add some kind of intermediary Local-only interface to adopt first, then on Last Call until Jan 6.

RFC: Drop support for older database upgrades[edit]

Upcoming holidays[edit]

There will also be no TechCom triage meeting on 23 December and 30 December due to holidays. The next triage and review will be in the week of 6 January 2021.

Next week IRC office hours[edit]

No IRC discussion scheduled for next week.