7 August 2020 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	7 August 2020 15:30:00 - 7 August 2020 16:30:00
URL:	https://meet.google.com/mdd-ufhn-ksb
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2020-08
Attendees:	Andreas Kukartz, Bryan Hildebrand, Gergő Tisza, Ike Hecht, Mark Hershberger, Thomas O'Neill, Vincent Brooks

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2. This month in MediaWiki 15 min Gergo
3. Agenda Item XX min TBD
4. Wiki Watercooler remaining Open Mic

Notes

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1. This month in MediaWiki (Gergo)
   • MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.1 released - see email for download links and request for help with testing:
     • https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-August/093692.html
     • The VisualEditor extension should "just work" now
     • Lots of changes and deprecations in the skin system internals (as part of the new, reader-optimized mode in Vector), including a new logo format https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232140
     • New proposal to drop PHP 7.2 support in MW 1.35: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257879
   • New proposal to drop support for large upgrade "jumps": https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771
   • New Wikimedia tech blog: https://diff.wikimedia.org/
   • New (online) meetup: Hallway Track https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/The_Hallway_Track
   • Chrome is rolling out SameSite cookies - you'll probably have to set
     • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCookieSameSite to None to avoid weird issues (related code has been backported into the supported release branches, but no new point release has been made yet).
     • Also set https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseSameSiteLegacyCookies to true if you run a large site and want to support users with certain old browsers.
     • Related: set https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForceHTTPS to true on pure HTTPS wikis
   • The REST API (/w/rest.php) is now stable (and enabled by default). Check out
     • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Reference for some new APIs available in 1.35.
   • Revert detection in core! See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgManualRevertSearchRadius (This will be available in 1.36.)
   • Starter kit for small wikis: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit
     • This is meant for Wikimedia wikis, but maybe useful for others as well
   • Revision class migration manual: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Revision.php/Migration
2. Internships at the Department of Energy (DOE) (Tom)
   • Current internship opportunities:
     • https://vsfs.state.gov/projects/view/3005
     • https://vsfs.state.gov/projects/view/3006
   • Previous work done by interns at the DOE:
     • https://github.com/PowerpediaInterns
     • https://github.com/PowerpediaInterns/mediawiki-extensions-NewDuplicateUserMessage
     • https://github.com/PowerpediaInterns/mediawiki-bots/tree/master/pywikibot/scripts/userscripts/feed_external_links
     • https://github.com/PowerpediaInterns/mediawiki-bots/tree/master/pywikibot/scripts/userscripts/categorize_files

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