Technical Advice IRC Meeting/Archive/2018

December 12 2018, 4 pm UTC

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December 5 2018, 11 pm UTC

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December 5 2018, 4 pm UTC

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TBA
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November 28 2018, 4 pm UTC

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Roy Smith. I'm interested in phab: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)[reply]

November 14th 2018, 4 pm UTC

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November 7th 2018, 11 pm UTC

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November 7th 2018 2018, 3 pm UTC

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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. —Mainframe98 _talk 15:03, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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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)[reply]

October 10th 2018, 3 pm UTC

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October 3rd 2018, 11 pm UTC

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October 3rd 2018, 3 pm UTC

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September 26th 2018 3 pm UTC

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luglimbe

With kiwix,We have install Wikipedia on raspberry pi zero, are you interested to hear about it?

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September 19th 2018 3 pm UTC

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September 12th 2018 3 pm UTC

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September 5th 2018 3 pm UTC

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September 5th 2018 11 pm UTC

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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)[reply]

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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

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August 8st 2018 3 pm UTC

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For phabricator:T200814, we might need something like a {{USERLANGUAGE}} magic word. Such a magic word has been requested for ages (phabricator: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)[reply]

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August 1st 2018 3 pm UTC

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Using Rust to write a webservice Enterprisey (talk) 18:44, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Details regarding wikidata constraints Adrian Bielefeldt (talk) 11:35, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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August 1st 2018 11 pm UTC

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Multilanguage SVG using <switch> vs Multiple SVGs with translations. -jem- (talk) 22:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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July 25th, 2018

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Accessing the database during extension registration. (ChronologyProtection issues) —Mainframe98 _talk 10:08, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

July 18th, 2018 (Wikimania Special)

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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. —Mainframe98 _talk 18:40, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wikibase: Starting with a fresh Wikibase 1.30 docker instance, I'm trying to align properties to external RDF vocabularies. It looks like canonicalUriProperty as documented in options.wiki is what I'm looking for, but testing that by:

Creating properties P21 and P22 with data type string, and P23 with data type external-id
Changing extensions/Wikibase/repo/config/Wikibase.default.php to have 'formatterUrlProperty' => 'P21', 'canonicalUriProperty' => 'P22'
Giving P23 a statement of P21 = https://example.org/url-formatter/$1 and P22 = https://example.org/canonicalURI/$1
Creating a new item Q16 with statements P23 = 123

... 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)[reply]

- 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)[reply]

July 11th, 2018

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May 2nd, 2018

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Phab:T189376: AutoWikiBrowser-related problem, affects characters using acute accent.
Phab:T185423: community wish on huWiki, finding a volunteer would be great.

Bencemac (talk) 14:20, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Apr 25th, 2018

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Apr 18th, 2018

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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)[reply]
Part usability, part frustration prevention of (OOUI) HTMLForms. —Mainframe98 _talk 17:58, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Jan 31st, 2018

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Caching services and implementing SalvageableService, specifically in a multi-wiki environment. —Mainframe98 _talk 11:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Jan 17th, 2018

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Jan 10th, 2018

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Jan 3rd, 2018

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