4 September 2020 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	4 September 2020 15:30:00 - 4 September 2020 16:30:00
URL:	https://meet.google.com/mdd-ufhn-ksb
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2020-09
Attendees:	Brian Wolff, Bryan Hildebrand, Cindy Cicalese, Evita Hollis, Lex Sulzer, Mark Hershberger, Peter Meyer, Vincent Brooks

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Meeting agenda

1. Wait for attendees & chat 5 min
2. Wiki Quickie 5 min TBD
3. MediaWiki Blog Released 15 min Richard H
   • https://mediawiki.blog
   • Needs input: Authors, Corrections, Suggestions, etc.
4. MediaWiki News 20 min Mark
5. Wiki Watercooler remaining Open Mic

Notes

The meeting voice transcription is available on the talk page.

1. Help Desk
   • (Mark) Thanked Brian Wolff for his support desk help
2. This month in MediaWiki (Mark) - Based off Etherpad notes
   • MW Logo Change
     • One week left to comment on the MW Logo change
     • This is just a proposal at this point
   • Deprecation policy discussion
     • Robert Vogel commented on it via email representing Hallo Welt, it's OK with them
   • MW 1.35 release candidate. (VE in core!)
     • (Gergo) This means no external dependencies for DiscussionTools
   • Updated pingback statistics visualization using the heartbeat ping
     • A chart is shown
     • The data show how relatively common MediaWiki 1.30 to 1.35 are, and new installations of each
     • Heartbeat/Pingback was updated to fix a bug that showed each implementation continuously adding it's status to the total count
   • Developer Advocacy/Developer Portal
   • PHP 7.2 support is dropped for MW 1.35
   • Discussion about unsupporting single-step upgrades over lots of versions is still ongoing
   • Consultation about switching from Gerrit to Gitlab
   • MediaWiki user survey
   • Discussion for the Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct is coming up. I imagine it will replace the CoC for technical spaces (although no one explicitly stated that) so somewhat relevant for non-#* Wikimedians as well.
   • (Mark) What happened with MagicNumberedHeadings (MNH) and why you should keep mw.org up-to-date
     • MNH initially stored code in the page on mw.org
     • When I went to update it, I learned Umherirrender had imported MagicNumberedHeadings from my github repo into gerrit but neither he nor I updated MW.org to point to the repo(s) instead of having code on the page, so @kghbln looked at the page and said, hmm, not updated for MagicWords and MWServices (but I did this on my github repo and @legoktm did it on gerrit)
     • So, @kghbln marked the extension archived and, as a result, Archive the MagicNumberedHeadings extension archived the gerrit repo.
     • I was upgrading and noticed all this. Asked for a gerrit repo re-creation.
3. New Flex Diagrams extension
   • Flex Diagrams extension from Yaron
   • Offers support for BPMN, Gantt, and Mermaid. Editable examples below:
     • BPMN
     • Gantt
     • Mermaid

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