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Aug 14 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T372447: Consider allowing local Data pages to be used as a fallback if fetching from the remote fails.

It is orders of magnitude harder to move graphs from the original wiki to commons, than to have them in the data namespace on the original wiki. This is especially true if the move is done with a bot. This mostly effects the datapoints, the design is often shared between hundreds or thousands of graphs.

Aug 14 2024, 11:45 AM · Charts
Snaevar added a comment to T137291: Replace all uses of EasyTimeline and decommission it from Wikimedia's servers.

Another potential replacement of EasyTimeline would be T334372: Add support for inline SVG.

Aug 14 2024, 11:37 AM · Epic, Charts, Technical-Debt, Wikimedia-Extension-setup, EasyTimeline

Aug 11 2024

Snaevar created T372216: Imagelink removal on iswiki (s3?) takes hours.
Aug 11 2024, 9:47 AM · MediaWiki-Page-derived-data, Regression

Jul 31 2024

Snaevar updated the task description for T371446: Inconsistent invert on desktop vs. mobile.
Jul 31 2024, 11:12 PM · Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, dark-mode
Snaevar created T371446: Inconsistent invert on desktop vs. mobile.
Jul 31 2024, 12:10 AM · Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, dark-mode

Jun 21 2024

Snaevar created T368157: Support CSS grid in the same way as tables.
Jun 21 2024, 3:09 PM · VisualEditor
Snaevar created T368156: Support css grid in wikitable class.
Jun 21 2024, 3:09 PM · MediaWiki-User-Interface (Tables)
Snaevar removed a project from T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text: User-notice.

Hi @Snaevar (or anyone), given that the proposed parser function hasn't been merged yet, I'm wondering if you have any suggestions on how to most clearly help the editors who might need some guidance?

Ideally, I think we could write something like this, but I'm not sure if it's accurate enough, or detailed enough:

Editors who work with multilingual SVG files can add language tags to the SVG's labels. If the SVG contains labels that use a hyphenated Wikimedia specific language code that doesn't match the BCP47 standard, such as zh-classical, then those labels need to be changed to use the BCP47 code instead, such as lzh.

Jun 21 2024, 8:03 AM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor
Snaevar created T368128: SVGs using invalid BCP 47 language codes do not show text.
Jun 21 2024, 8:00 AM · User-notice, Thumbor

Jun 14 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

The way I see it "simple" is for all languages, so it could be simple German, simple French, simple Spanish, and so on. Using it for simple English only would not be appropriate. I do agree that using "simple" as an example is not that great. I got "en-basiceng" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codes_for_constructed_languages, but I have also seen "en-simple".

Jun 14 2024, 5:31 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor

Jun 12 2024

Snaevar added a project to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text: User-notice.

I think users need to make some fixes here. The conclusion is clearly to use standards.

Jun 12 2024, 5:09 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor

May 12 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T362441: Icelandic namespace translations.

Camel case is not how we write things normally, but this is just a technical approach since a literal translation here does not result in a compound noun but an adjective+noun combination.

May 12 2024, 11:54 AM · MediaWiki-Internationalization, Community-consensus-needed

May 8 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T361843: Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at phase 1 Wikipedias.

Hi,
I would like to add Icelandic Wikipedia (is.wikipedia) to the list.
Community consensus: https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potturinn#Heimildalausar_greinar:_EditCheck

May 8 2024, 5:00 AM · User-notice-archive, Verified, Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), EditCheck

May 1 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T361822: Lost saved queries.

I was able to find 60% of my queries by visiting "https://superset.wmcloud.org/sqllab/?savedQueryId=" urls from my browser history. I have those back through saving "a new query". Trying to save those by updating them did not work; I got a "Your query could not be updated" error.

May 1 2024, 9:07 PM · Regression, superset.wmcloud.org

Apr 22 2024

Snaevar added a project to T363035: Design improvement: Minerva shows a warning that Wikipedia is made by people like you: MobileFrontend.
Apr 22 2024, 4:52 AM · Growth-Team (Sprint 15 (Growth Team)), Design-System-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MobileFrontend, MinervaNeue (Desktop)
Snaevar added a comment to T363035: Design improvement: Minerva shows a warning that Wikipedia is made by people like you.

This was addded in T87261, which asked for a gray box.

Apr 22 2024, 4:43 AM · Growth-Team (Sprint 15 (Growth Team)), Design-System-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MobileFrontend, MinervaNeue (Desktop)

Apr 12 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T362441: Icelandic namespace translations.

The largest thing here would be having the current namespaces as aliases, especially in the Template and Module namespaces. This will create a massive mess otherwise, although it will only be for a while.

Apr 12 2024, 9:49 PM · MediaWiki-Internationalization, Community-consensus-needed
Snaevar added a comment to T362441: Icelandic namespace translations.

The projects that we have are small and often inactive for long periods.

Not true with Wikipedia and Wiktionary, but the rest, yes. Speaking of which, there has been NO discussion of this in the Icelandic projects. Agree with the required conseus.

Apr 12 2024, 9:47 PM · MediaWiki-Internationalization, Community-consensus-needed

Apr 7 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T270736: Document "source:true" for use in Quick access characters.

MediaWiki:Visualeditor-quick-access-characters.json actually has something close to this already, albeit in an extremely undocumented fashion -- you can add source:true to a given character/replacement, and it'll only be shown when you're in source mode.

Apr 7 2024, 8:28 AM · Documentation, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor, VisualEditor
Snaevar renamed T270736: Document "source:true" for use in Quick access characters from Specific Special Characters for 2017 WikitextEditor to Document "source:true" for use in Quick access characters.
Apr 7 2024, 8:27 AM · Documentation, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor, VisualEditor

Apr 4 2024

Snaevar created T361822: Lost saved queries.
Apr 4 2024, 11:22 AM · Regression, superset.wmcloud.org

Apr 2 2024

Snaevar closed T361348: addPortletlink is broken on is.wikibooks as Invalid.

Fixed on wiki. Thanks for the information.

Apr 2 2024, 10:08 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-ResourceLoader

Mar 29 2024

Snaevar created T361348: addPortletlink is broken on is.wikibooks.
Mar 29 2024, 9:25 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-ResourceLoader

Mar 28 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T360431: Set wgUploadNavigationUrl for is.wikibooks.

There is something weird going on. An auto-confirmed, non-sysop can not see the link. The manual says

If $wgUploadNavigationUrl is set to a url, the link is always shown, regardless of the user's permissions.

Either that is a lie or the change was not applied correctly. It could be that I am forgetting something, but nothing is pointing me in that direction. Uploads are limited to sysops on is.wikibooks. I have a theory that only sysops can see it.

Mar 28 2024, 3:41 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests

Mar 21 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T273220: Deploy StopForumSpam extension to production.

MediaWiki-extensions-IPReputation seems to be the exact project. It seems to use the risk data from spur, https://docs.spur.us/data-types?id=risk-enums. Spur and stopforumspan do not track the same thing. According to a security researcher, there definitely are groups that do lower risk level stuff like spamming, but not higher risk stuff like spur tracks. There are also groups that do both. LTA (Long term abusers/vandals) reports created by users on WMF projects show the same thing.
As for handing the task over to the team responsible for iPoid and IPReputation, they clearly allready have their hands full.

Mar 21 2024, 7:43 AM · Trust and Safety Product Team, Privacy Engineering, MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.17; 2023-01-02), Security-Team, user-sbassett, User-notice, Wikimedia-Extension-setup, MediaWiki-extensions-StopForumSpam

Mar 19 2024

Snaevar updated the task description for T360431: Set wgUploadNavigationUrl for is.wikibooks.
Mar 19 2024, 1:52 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests
Snaevar updated the task description for T360431: Set wgUploadNavigationUrl for is.wikibooks.
Mar 19 2024, 1:50 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests
Snaevar created T360431: Set wgUploadNavigationUrl for is.wikibooks.
Mar 19 2024, 1:49 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests

Mar 15 2024

Snaevar updated the task description for T360174: Citation templates still being expanded (substituted).
Mar 15 2024, 8:12 AM · LPL Essential, Regression, ContentTranslation
Snaevar updated the task description for T360174: Citation templates still being expanded (substituted).
Mar 15 2024, 6:47 AM · LPL Essential, Regression, ContentTranslation
Snaevar created T360174: Citation templates still being expanded (substituted).
Mar 15 2024, 6:44 AM · LPL Essential, Regression, ContentTranslation

Mar 11 2024

Snaevar created T359800: Notify user during translation of overwriting.
Mar 11 2024, 11:04 AM · ContentTranslation
Snaevar added a comment to T343131: Commons database is growing way too fast.

Template:License template tag is also in FileImporter:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/FileImporter/+/7df62d4fb3d6b49c7d96ed13045031af0632e3f3/tests/phpunit/res/IntegrationTests/detailRetriever.json line 277

Mar 11 2024, 1:07 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.1; 2024-10-29), Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.23; 2024-03-19), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Data-Persistence (work done), Commons

Mar 8 2024

Snaevar closed T348403: Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar as Resolved.
Mar 8 2024, 7:43 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.10; 2023-12-19), WikiEditor (2010), All-and-every-Wikisource
Snaevar added a comment to T229709: Automatically block users who hit some spam blacklist entries.

There is an false positive here. When the about.com domain was added to the Global Spam list, it was said that old versions of the domain where fine. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2023-04#about.com ) So, if an user archives an already present about.com link, they would be, under this bug, blocked from editing. That is problematic.

Mar 8 2024, 7:36 PM · OKR-Work, Stewards-and-global-tools, SpamBlacklist

Mar 5 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T359107: Paste Check: Prompt people pasting text to consider risk of copyright violation.

Sometimes new editors copy articles from one title to another because they do not know how Special:MovePage works, and are in fact fully unaware of it's existence. It is an false positive for an copy-paste copyvio check.

Mar 5 2024, 10:53 PM · Patch-For-Review, Editing-team (Kanban Board), VisualEditor, EditCheck

Mar 3 2024

Pppery awarded T359007: Prevent overwriting of articles with Content Translation a Like token.
Mar 3 2024, 11:28 PM · ContentTranslation
Snaevar created T359007: Prevent overwriting of articles with Content Translation.
Mar 3 2024, 10:56 PM · ContentTranslation
Snaevar added a comment to T358078: Community discussion about hacks.less.

Icelandic Wikipedia here. We mostly use English Wikipedia styles, with a handful of styles from spanish wikipedia.

Mar 3 2024, 12:15 AM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), MinervaNeue

Feb 28 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T307971: Empower people to organize and present knowledge by time.

Not that my opinion has any weight, but I have some opinions on this. I think that a lot of these ideas can be done with Vega5. Since Vega4 it has supported layers, and that unblocks potentials that where not possible with Vega2. The map provided by JTanner is doable, probably even with Vega2 (although Vega2 will not be used). I am conserned about the number of dots though, Europe would probably be better as an one highlighted area, as WMF projects rarely use map closeups, but there are third party tools users can use to reduce the number of the dots. The route-map is also doable in Vega5.

Feb 28 2024, 3:27 PM · Editing-team, VisualEditor

Feb 20 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T17294: Allow globally blocking of accounts.

Blocks of expired temporary accounts make no sense (but admins may tend to use indefinite block for VOA) and they will inflate the database and confuse users. So some proposed ideas:

  • Prevent blocks of temporary accounts for more than the lifetime (one year in Wikimedia wikis)
  • Prevent blocks of already expired temporary accounts
  • Automatically purge blocks of temporary accounts upon expiration
Feb 20 2024, 10:19 AM · User-notice-archive, Temporary accounts (Blockers to minor pilot wiki deployment), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), MediaWiki-Blocks, Goal, Epic, Stewards-and-global-tools, GlobalBlocking

Feb 17 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T357802: Prompt user to create a regular account after temp account creation rate limit trip.

Maybe just block them?

Feb 17 2024, 2:23 PM · Temporary accounts, Growth-Team

Feb 9 2024

Snaevar created T357161: Investigate using WDQS graphs in WMF wikis, instead of supporting WDQS in Extension:Graph.
Feb 9 2024, 5:39 PM · Wikidata, Wikidata-Query-Service, MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

Jan 28 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T352571: Evaluate WorldCat Search API v2.

Icelandic ISBN numbers are also a problem. They are managed by the National library (https://landsbokasafn.is), which does not have an search engine for them. They are added to "Global register of publishers" (https://grp.isbn-international.org), but that only shows publishers, not books, and is thus inadequate for Wikipedia use.
Prior to WorldCat's removal from Citoid, they showed up just fine.

Jan 28 2024, 2:21 AM · Platform Engineering, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Citoid

Jan 26 2024

Snaevar updated subscribers of T354002: Request to add a link to Minerva mobile sidebar in zhwikinews.

Stalled until tasks mentioned in T229953#5398372 are resolved

Jan 26 2024, 4:56 PM · Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, Chinese-Sites

Jan 24 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T343131: Commons database is growing way too fast.

Another way to reduce size of transclude table used in the past was to run a bot job of substituting template redirects. Does anybody have a good SQL query to see if we have any templates with often used redirects? I run many such bot jobs in the past but not in the last decade or so.

Jan 24 2024, 5:05 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.1; 2024-10-29), Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.23; 2024-03-19), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Data-Persistence (work done), Commons

Jan 21 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T343131: Commons database is growing way too fast.

Some more specific templates (more to add): [...]

Those need an function that accepts arguments, not frame. For example, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:SDC_tracking needs "function p._SDC_statement_exist(args)", "function p.SDC_statement_exist(frame)" will not work.

Jan 21 2024, 7:05 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.1; 2024-10-29), Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.23; 2024-03-19), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Data-Persistence (work done), Commons

Oct 29 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T349781: Add some PageTriage components and icons to the Codex library.

All of those icons are in codex, their names are (from top to bottom):
cdxIconMoveLast ltr version, cdxIconInfoFilled, cdxIconHeart, cdxIconSuccess, cdxIconTag rtl version, cdxIconTrash, cdxIconDoubleChevronStart rtl version.
They are all the largest variants of the icons, 20px.

Oct 29 2023, 4:37 PM · PageTriage

Oct 15 2023

Snaevar closed T346835: Visual Editor "Media settings" dialog should allow more room for Alternative text as Invalid.

The solution here is fine, but the problem is non-existant. It is a classic case of an solution looking for a problem.
In W3Cs standard (the same organization as was behind HTML4) alternative text is supposed to be short. See https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/G94
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility/Alternative_text_for_images#Basics says the same, so the editor is trying to violate the rules of the project he edits the most to. It so happens that the creator of this ticket pointed out the latter point out to me, so I know he has no valid argument here.
Let's not waste more time than necessary.

Oct 15 2023, 3:42 AM · VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Media, VisualEditor

Oct 9 2023

Snaevar updated the task description for T348403: Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar.
Oct 9 2023, 1:00 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.10; 2023-12-19), WikiEditor (2010), All-and-every-Wikisource
Snaevar added a comment to T348403: Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar.

The problem is that button is not in the Page namespace - random example: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(German_II).djvu/1&action=edit

Oct 9 2023, 12:53 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.10; 2023-12-19), WikiEditor (2010), All-and-every-Wikisource

Oct 8 2023

Snaevar added a project to T348403: Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar: WikiEditor (2010).
Oct 8 2023, 3:16 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.10; 2023-12-19), WikiEditor (2010), All-and-every-Wikisource

Sep 29 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T347732: Mock up a 100% Codex front end for PageTriage.

Things missing (probably not exhaustive):

  • Green button in "Set filters" under the "Set filters" link on the special page - or decide to use a blue one
  • Date picker for "Set filters" under data range - T91148
Sep 29 2023, 10:23 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team, Design-System-Team, PageTriage

Sep 21 2023

Snaevar added a project to T337887: Consult Dumps users and other community members about the future of Dumps: AutoWikiBrowser.

AutoWikiBrowser has an database scanner using the dumps. Just pointing it out, seems relevant.

Sep 21 2023, 9:08 PM · Dumps 2.0

Sep 16 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T346469: Is codex-search-styles stable for templates to use? What should templates do going forward?.
<span class='cdx-button'>Button text</span>

on a wiki page gives incorrect background color and color of the border. Tested on old vector skin.

Sep 16 2023, 12:35 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.12; 2024-01-02), Codex, Design-System-Team

Aug 29 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T276857: [Check] Offer volunteers feedback about the reliability of the source they are attempting to add.

It would be nice to have the "Perennial sources" list under the community config page so it can be turned off on the small and medium sized wikis, most of which do not have one.

Aug 29 2023, 7:48 PM · Editing-team, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2023, EditCheck, VisualEditor

Aug 27 2023

Snaevar added a subtask for T255366: SameSite cookie issues: T345032: Some cookies are misusing the recommended “SameSite“ attribute.
Aug 27 2023, 8:32 AM · MediaWiki-General
Snaevar added a parent task for T345032: Some cookies are misusing the recommended “SameSite“ attribute: T255366: SameSite cookie issues.
Aug 27 2023, 8:32 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager, Beta-Cluster-reproducible

Aug 19 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T344534: Explore bot-replacing all WikiHiero uses with Unicode glyphs, and switching off the extension.

As for inserting the characters from the perspective of medium and small wikis, it would be best to add them to "special characters" in the editors, preferrably all three (Wikieditor, VisualEditor, 2017 wikitext editor).

Aug 19 2023, 9:53 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.27; 2023-09-19), WikiHiero

Jun 30 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T340046: Targets system gives deprecation warnings for gadget modules.

Might want to send a message to Arjunaraoc user talk page at https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Arjunaraoc since he is the only interface admin on that project and that te.wikisource was mentioned in T340682

Jun 30 2023, 5:16 AM · Web-Team-Backlog (Needs Prioritization (Tech)), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.15; 2023-06-27), affects-translatewiki.net

Jun 23 2023

Snaevar updated the task description for T338155: Investigating caching issues (frontend).
Jun 23 2023, 12:41 AM · ProofreadPage
Snaevar added a comment to T338155: Investigating caching issues (frontend).

It would be nice to fetch the first page thumbnail up on visiting the Index page, using the same method as with the "Page" namespace. The "Page" namespace preloads 1024px for the previous and next page. That way, an user can upload PDF/DjVu, create an index and the first page is ready when the user saves the index.

Jun 23 2023, 12:39 AM · ProofreadPage
Snaevar added a comment to T338155: Investigating caching issues (frontend).

Confirmed. 1024px is pre-fetched from looking at the previous page in the "Page" namespace. It does preload 1024px even if you use an higher resolution. Making it dynamic/calculated from the users resolution would fix the issue.

Jun 23 2023, 12:35 AM · ProofreadPage

Jun 22 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337649: Thumbor fails to render thumbnails of djvu/tiff/pdf files quite often in eqiad.
Jun 22 2023, 5:18 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.13; 2023-06-13), All-and-every-Wikisource, serviceops, Thumbor
Snaevar updated subscribers of T337149: CAPTCHA required to edit any page on testwiki containing a link with no path.
Jun 22 2023, 8:06 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.12; 2023-06-06), DBA, ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension)
Snaevar merged T340056: fullurl should not output proto-relative url into T118413: Wikimedia wikis should use https:// in $wgServer.
Jun 22 2023, 8:05 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.10; 2023-05-23), User-Tgr, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Snaevar merged task T340056: fullurl should not output proto-relative url into T118413: Wikimedia wikis should use https:// in $wgServer.
Jun 22 2023, 8:05 AM · Parsoid, MediaWiki-Parser

Jun 21 2023

Snaevar updated the task description for T340056: fullurl should not output proto-relative url.
Jun 21 2023, 8:14 PM · Parsoid, MediaWiki-Parser
Snaevar created T340056: fullurl should not output proto-relative url.
Jun 21 2023, 6:50 PM · Parsoid, MediaWiki-Parser

Jun 19 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337431: Rework MediaWiki:SpamBlacklist.

If I create the json page, I get blocked with the error message "JSON should be an array". There is "{}" in the edit box by default, I did not add to that.

Jun 19 2023, 3:09 PM · Patch-Needs-Improvement, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.22; 2023-08-15), User-notice, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2023, AbuseFilter, SpamBlacklist
Snaevar added a comment to T169452: Replace Quarry with an installation of Superset.

Looked at Recent activity on my account and saw nothing. That is despite me having around 30 saved queries. I have alpha and OAuth rights.

Jun 19 2023, 2:21 PM · cloud-services-team (FY2024/2025-Q1-Q2), superset.wmcloud.org, Quarry

Jun 18 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337649: Thumbor fails to render thumbnails of djvu/tiff/pdf files quite often in eqiad.

Looked at my browsers networking tab, loaded the same wikipage in "Page" namespace on wikisource and switched my resolution around, with these results:

Jun 18 2023, 7:35 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.13; 2023-06-13), All-and-every-Wikisource, serviceops, Thumbor

Jun 17 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337649: Thumbor fails to render thumbnails of djvu/tiff/pdf files quite often in eqiad.

I would suggest keeping ladsgroups patch, but limiting the max to 10, instead of 50.

Jun 17 2023, 8:08 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.13; 2023-06-13), All-and-every-Wikisource, serviceops, Thumbor

Jun 14 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

Looks like it's not just hyphenated codes, the "simple" has the same problem.

Jun 14 2023, 9:27 AM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor

Jun 11 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T270855: Add support for JPEG XL: allow JXL uploads in MediaWiki.

Debian 12 has libjxl 0.7 integrated into its repositories.

And Apple has recently announced support for the format in Safari 17, since the last time this issue has been commented on: Google has dropped support for jpeg xl in Chrome, Firefox's implementation is still not ready.

Jun 11 2023, 5:54 PM · MediaWiki-File-management, Upstream, Commons, Thumbor

Jun 9 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T65236: Han characters in SVG files misplaced and clustered.

Thumbor uses the following font packages:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/THMBREXT/browse/master/.pipeline/blubber.yaml$31

Jun 9 2023, 11:13 PM · Vertical-Writing, Upstream, Chinese-Sites, I18n, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering
Snaevar added a comment to T337649: Thumbor fails to render thumbnails of djvu/tiff/pdf files quite often in eqiad.

As a normal user who know nothing about the subliminal coding, I'd like to report that the problem seems to be alleviated for the past few days. At least I don't need to push the button for some 10 or 15 times, and in general it only takes 2-3 times for Google OCR to identify the text. Did you changed something for the OCR gadget?

Jun 9 2023, 10:20 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.13; 2023-06-13), All-and-every-Wikisource, serviceops, Thumbor

Jun 4 2023

Snaevar created T338098: Port EasyTimeline from Ploticus to DataDraw.
Jun 4 2023, 10:00 AM · EasyTimeline
Snaevar added a comment to T336595: Restrict editing of Vega spec to a small set of users.

Vega-Lite would also not pass a security review at this time.

Jun 4 2023, 9:28 AM · Security, MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

May 28 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T336595: Restrict editing of Vega spec to a small set of users.

I think Vega-Lite could replace `<graph template="MediaWiki:Piechart.vega">` and make it unnecessary. It already defines graph types, and a user can not really change those that much. I think the graph template suggests an Vega-Lite change, without mentioning Vega-Lite.

May 28 2023, 9:54 AM · Security, MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

May 27 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T336897: In librsvg 2.44.10, SVG filter effects are much lighter.

A lot of the "Filter effect" tags Cmglee used changed programming languages into rust in 2.43.2.

May 27 2023, 1:21 AM · Thumbor, Commons, Upstream, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering

May 23 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T336595: Restrict editing of Vega spec to a small set of users.

My proposal is to work together on a new version of the Graph extension. We can start with a simple set of charts: bar, line, pie, and world/country maps. I have to migrate Wikistats 2 from an old UI library to Codex.

May 23 2023, 11:55 PM · Security, MediaWiki-extensions-Graph
Snaevar added a comment to T169452: Replace Quarry with an installation of Superset.

I think a lot of the issues can be fixed with better documentation and UI changes. Created an specific task for documentation, so only covering UI here.

  1. Provide two layouts, one without the dashboard, charts and dataset menu and one as-is. (maybe with an pre-written superset css, redirect to "https://superset.wmcloud.org/superset/sqllab/?standalone=1" upon login in superset or whatever other method). Having all of the menus for newbies is going to be an overload of information.
  2. Provide the links given in quarry under "database tables" in superset. There is for example an site for looking up wikis and pairing them with clusters, like enwiki - s1 ( https://db-names.toolforge.org/).
May 23 2023, 8:09 PM · cloud-services-team (FY2024/2025-Q1-Q2), superset.wmcloud.org, Quarry
Snaevar created T337342: Improve Superset documentation.
May 23 2023, 8:08 PM · superset.wmcloud.org, User-Frostly, Documentation

May 18 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T169452: Replace Quarry with an installation of Superset.

Looked at the documentation of all three and liked metabase the most, mainly because it seems easy to get cached results.
Plus, joining like shown on https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/questions/query-builder/join , is easy for newcomers.

May 18 2023, 6:30 PM · cloud-services-team (FY2024/2025-Q1-Q2), superset.wmcloud.org, Quarry

May 13 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T336595: Restrict editing of Vega spec to a small set of users.

True, EasyTimeline is more reliable and stable, but it is also relying on a software, ploticus, that was last released 10 years ago. Last time the servers where upgraded, ploticus was compiled specifically, and that is not something WMF does regularly. Apparantly the author of ploticus moved on to datadraw, another non-interactive graph software. That one is in python, server side and outputs SVGs. IMO a change like that would still need to happen.

May 13 2023, 1:19 PM · Security, MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

May 9 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T335325: Restore loading of graphs from URL for Wikimedia allowed domains .

I am getting a CORS error on https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Lines for the first graph. The graph is supposed to get datapoints from Wikimedia Commons using the https method. Browser: Firefox 113.0 on Win10. I am not seeing an error on Template:Graph:PageViews on the same website.

May 9 2023, 5:48 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.10; 2023-05-23), MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

Apr 27 2023

Snaevar created T335493: Faceted Vega5 graph shows incorrectly on beta.wmflabs.
Apr 27 2023, 11:45 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

Apr 24 2023

Snaevar added projects to T335271: SVG rasterizer renders non Latin text as tofu glyph randomly (as thumbor-k8s lack noto fonts): Thumbor, SRE-swift-storage.
Apr 24 2023, 10:38 AM · Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), SRE-swift-storage, Thumbor, SVG

Mar 12 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T321642: IABot duplicates rows from a table.

I am seeing an similar issue on is.wiki at https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristín_Á._Ólafsdóttir . Can create an seperate bug if needed.

Mar 12 2023, 5:28 PM · InternetArchiveBot

Jan 16 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T316559: Communicate when pages are not supported in other languages in the current language selector.

I understand what the purpose is (telling the reader that some pages shouldn't have interwiki links). But... why? Why shouldnt a talk page be linked to another talk page? In which way is this good for our strategy? I would understand that the opposite is the good practice.

Jan 16 2023, 8:38 PM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.19; 2023-01-16), Language-Team (Language-2023-January-March), UniversalLanguageSelector

Jan 13 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T314620: The Language selector appears on pages where it is not used.

Seems like our next step would be to define a list of namespaces that allows for translation. Maybe something like:

Jan 13 2023, 11:47 AM · Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022) (Tracking), Web-Team-Backlog, UniversalLanguageSelector, ULS-CompactLinks

Jan 3 2023

Snaevar created T326108: Non-checkuser could get Checkuser data through SQL queries using process of elimination.
Jan 3 2023, 1:35 AM · SecTeam-Processed, CheckUser, Security

Dec 30 2022

Snaevar added a comment to T325804: Rhymes page add request for Mon Wiktionary.

@Intodesa: (intentionally using simple english) So, the issue clearly is that the page can not be linked to Wikidata. But, there is an issue underneath that one, which causes the page not to be linkable. Not sure to what extent, tho. In order to fix this, we need an namespace called "ကာရန်" in an seperate task, an task like T314023, just for "ကာရန်" instead of "Appendix" or "အဆက်လက္ကရဴ". That also means there needs to be an discussion on mnw.wiktionary on this namespace, just like there was one with Appendix.

Dec 30 2022, 10:45 PM · Wikidata

Dec 27 2022

Snaevar edited projects for T325804: Rhymes page add request for Mon Wiktionary, added: Wikidata; removed Wikimedia-Site-requests.
Dec 27 2022, 1:21 PM · Wikidata

Dec 26 2022

Snaevar updated the task description for T325904: It should not be possible to search when the search input is empty.
Dec 26 2022, 10:49 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, Design-System-Team, Codex, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Dec 22 2022

Snaevar added a project to T256959: Allow PDF's to be rendered at higher (or user specified DPI): MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler.
Dec 22 2022, 2:31 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler, Thumbor Migration, Patch-For-Review, Commons, All-and-every-Wikisource, Thumbor

Dec 21 2022

Snaevar added a comment to T47212: TIF less focused than JPG equivalent (due to conditional sharpening applied to JPEGs and not TIFFS).

Looks like the boolean [[ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/thumbnail_sharpness | mimic property proposal ]]is not getting support.

Dec 21 2022, 4:06 PM · Thumbor Migration, Thumbor, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management

Dec 17 2022

Snaevar updated the task description for T256959: Allow PDF's to be rendered at higher (or user specified DPI).
Dec 17 2022, 6:12 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler, Thumbor Migration, Patch-For-Review, Commons, All-and-every-Wikisource, Thumbor
Snaevar added a comment to T256959: Allow PDF's to be rendered at higher (or user specified DPI).

I personally think this is the way we should implement this task:

  • Implement a mechanism that allows Thumbor to retreive the dpi value if present in as a URL parameter and use it to render the image via Ghostscript (for example: /War_and_Peace.djvu/page1-1536px-150dpi-War_and_Peace.djvu.jpg should/could render the image with size 1536px and a dpi of 150) (This step is identical to what @Vlad.shapik is implementing)
  • Write code to teach mediawiki-core's DjvuHandler (and also the PdfHandler extension) that the dpi value exists and that it can be used while fetching images
  • Have ProofreadPage read the dpi value from somewhere and then pass it to MediaWiki core (my instinct would be to use a Index: page parameter for storage, since that is how ProofreadPage already allows users to set the resolution of the image).
Dec 17 2022, 6:11 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler, Thumbor Migration, Patch-For-Review, Commons, All-and-every-Wikisource, Thumbor