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

• 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 >