To gather feedback and aid ongoing discussions from a set of communities we will initially enable on these a small set of mobile Wikipedias.
Acceptance Criteria
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enable Wikibase descriptions on Catalan and Polish wikis | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +2 -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T135433 Deploy Wikidata descriptions to all mobile web Wikipedias | |||
| Resolved | • jhobs | T135429 Deploy Wikidata descriptions to Catalan and Polish mobile web Wikipedias stable | |||
| Resolved | • jhobs | T127250 Prepare Wikidata descriptions to roll out to stable | |||
| Resolved | None | T127476 create 'kill switch' for wikidata descriptions on mobile web | |||
| Resolved | • Nirzar | T131050 Tagline is pushing the page actions to the next line | |||
| Resolved | dr0ptp4kt | T135047 Prevent wikidata descriptions from showing on non-main namespace |
Hey @Jdlrobson because it makes it easy to update and discuss, for instance, see sample discussion here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/31_mai_2016#Les_descriptions_de_Wikidata_sur_la_version_mobile
I removed French from the ticket title, looks like the conversation needs to go longer.
@Moushira, just to double check: are we okay to roll this out on Catalan and Polish mobile Wikipedias?
Changing this to sprint 75 for timing.
@Lydia_Pintscher, provided @Moushira indicates we're okay for Catalan and French mobile Wikipedias, would you be okay emailing in your weekly Wikidata summary on 13-June-2016 to let people know we plan to roll the descriptions on most mobile Wikipedias "throughout the remainder of June 2016, starting first with Catalan and Polish mobile Wikipedias"?
We are OK with Catalan and Polish. We need more discussion on French, hence the ticket renaming :)
@Moushira, thanks. Okay @Lydia_Pintscher, does that 13-June-2016 Wikidata summary sound okay for you?
This feature was proposed at https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tema:T4zzb98em3pn4ikh and it didn't receive any feedback at all. For the local standards, that could be translated as "OK, as long as you will hear us and react quickly if problems are reported." :)
@Lydia_Pintscher it's looking like Catalan and Polish Wikipedias on mobile web will be the evening of Thursday, 23-June-2016.
Change 296242 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jhobs):
Enable Wikibase descriptions on Catalan and Polish wikis
I'm a bit late in updating this card, but deployment was scheduled for June 27th (today) rather than June 23rd to give over a full week on the Beta Cluster.
Awesome @jhobs - exciting stuff! :) I can be around to help test the deployment if you need me.
Change 296242 merged by jenkins-bot:
Enable Wikibase descriptions on Catalan and Polish wikis
Mentioned in SAL [2016-06-28T00:21:06Z] <dereckson@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Enable Wikibase descriptions on Catalan and Polish wikis (T135429) (duration: 00m 26s)
FYI I'm not seeing this in stable on Polish Wikipedia https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonancjusz_Ferreolus despite the above patch being merged. I only see the description in beta.
I pinged you on IRC about this. I hadn't updated threads/email yet because it was almost 9pm and I needed some dinner and a beer. :)
Onto the meat of things.
TL/DR: Wikidata descriptions enabled on Catalan wiki, rolling out on Polish with the train on Thursday due to a regression that caused an entire branch rollback.
Polish Wikipedia (along with other group2 wikis) was reverted to branch 1.28.0-wmf.6 last Friday due to a blocking regression. The train was frozen and then delayed by a week. The patches (296281 and 296346) fixing T138738 and T138085 were able to be backported to 1.28.0-wmf.6 and rolled out to 1.28.0-wmf.7 during today's evening SWAT deployment. The patch enabling Wikidata descriptions on Catalan and Polish stable Wikipedias, however, was only able to be deployed to 1.28.0-wmf.7 (due in part to the already prolonged SWAT window). Thus, it is currently deployed and confirmed working on Catalan wiki, but it won't be enabled for Polish stable until the train rolls at 19:00 UTC on Thursday. Both wikis still have Wikidata descriptions in beta (as do all wikis).
Thanks to @Dereckson for their extreme help this evening (and for not getting frustrated with me!) while gerrit constantly threw merge errors back at us despite merges working locally. :)
Moving to Ready for Signoff, although signoff should probably not happen until the train rolls out to Polish wiki on Thursday.