@kaldari : @Dispenser says:

In T170954#3656259, @Qgil wrote:

Moving this task back to the Community-Liaisons backlog. Is this support request still active? Is it expected to be continued in Community-Liaisons (Oct-Dec 2017) ?

@kaldari There were nine files uploaded today. Eight have been deleted, and none of those eight needed purging. We'll see what happens with the ninth file. Seems like the purge is working so far.

In T171881#3658191, @kaldari wrote:

I'm not sure. @Keegan: Can you confirm whether or not the caching problem is still a problem. Ops says the job queue should no longer be backed up, but there is disagreement about whether or not the job queue congestion was likely to have affected deletion requests.

I don't want to commit to this yet, until we see how the TCG rework goes.

The retrospective was held today, facilitated by Max Binder. From Audiences we had Dan Garry, Danny Horn, and Sam Smith. From the CL team we had Erica Litrenta, Nick Wilson, and myself.

I'm ready to close it. I have the framework setup of goals/outcomes for each timeframe, and I have two projects to use to document it (Reading lists and JADE).

List of usernames can go here:

In T176274#3626438, @Qgil wrote:

The two subtasks refer to improvements on the existing pages. However, it is worth to review the current index, the structure of the TCG itself. I have the impression that it has grown organically and that it has room for improvement. I am not sure new readers landing to the TCG main page will quickly understand the scope of the TCG and will find the right page for the information they are looking for. Has there been any feedback in this direction?

@Aklapper I was showing what this form did. Now I can't close it. Plz close :)

Members of the TC team met to discuss the team strategy, now that we're about 18 months into its existence. Notes are here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/tc_strategy_2017

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%28inizio%29_Va,_pensiero_-_Festa_dell%27orgoglio_leghista_a_Bergamo,_10_04_2012.webm contains a lowercase "google" as producer.

In T167000#3581121, @brion wrote:

Is there a sample file that's not deleted?

Had a brief chat with Tilman about all of our various plans at Wikimania. Should we all have a meeting and get on the same page, and maybe have some sort of working timeframe?

Meta-ORES is now known as JADE.

I've created T174492 to split out the CU table request.

This task can probably have the problem reworded more elegantly.

Actually using this solution will to fight abuse will require having GRR ID numbers available to see which wiki the request was filed from, so that the investigation can be carried out by local CheckUsers or Stewards as appropriate.

In T174388#3563157, @Deskbanana wrote:

Integrating the extension with checkuser seems very useful, but seems like a separate issue, which should probably have its own task.

Here's a great example of extensively, personally, customized, organized templates for images with high re-use value on high-traffic pages:

In T131689#3516156, @Elitre wrote:

Maybe resetting to open reflects reality better? Internal review has happened.

In T168751#3513936, @Elitre wrote:

In T168751#3513927, @Keegan wrote:

I think the most frequent question I've been asked is, "Have you see <Jane/John>?"

The DJ mentioned that at the last Wikimedia Conference in Berlin that there was a board where people could leave notes for other people. I think such a thing in the future would be very useful for this.

The board works when there's 100-150 attendees, more than that you'll need a dedicated room to host it :)
(We'd also probably want to do that differently - by username - I guess that works better in the tech community.)

I think the most frequent question I've been asked is, "Have you see <Jane/John>?"

@kaldari It seems we have goal #4 in T167400: Disable serving unpatrolled new files to Wikipedia Zero users, and it is an important one to the Commons community to end the piracy issue. The uploads of IP protected media are not necessarily coming from WP0, but it is large groups of WP0 users that are organized to download said material. We can play whack-a-mole all day with uploaders, but it is believed the situation will not go away until we remove access to downloading the files. Is this something we're going to look into?

In T171881#3485018, @Tbayer wrote:

In T171881#3482045, @Keegan wrote:

Someone hit English Wikinews the other day as well (https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Edman_Musik3). According to @Dispenser , the files were deleted within ten minutes but still accessed ~100,000 times.

See here for the detailed numbers from that day (non-public). It's important thought that they don't correspond 1:1 to e.g. video views or audio file listens. E.g. they are not filtered for successful requests (like the Mediacounts dataset is), i.e. a large part might have been requests for already unavailable files. What's more (but this is anecdotal so far), it appears that the Mediacounts data itself is (even beyond the already documented corner cases) often too high in that a single viewing of a longer video by a single users can apparently generate 100 or more requests in some circumstances. Thus the request number is included in these internal query results for detection purposes only, not as an estimate of actual usage.

Yes, thank you. I'm now subscribed to T129845 (restricted), which contains all the useful links.

Someone hit English Wikinews the other day as well (https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Edman_Musik3). According to @Dispenser , the files were deleted within ten minutes but still accessed ~100,000 times.

In T171881#3479350, @Elitre wrote:

Keegan, questions, thoughts, ...?

@Dispenser Got it, thank you for the clarification.

In T120288#3461399, @Dispenser wrote:

@greg We have been deleting an average of 260 uploads per week since January 1, 2017 from Wikipedia Zero pirates T129845. Many videos uploads are from YouTube. And frankly YouTube is a more convenient music listening experience.

In T170863#3457418, @Harej wrote:

I personally would be interested in seeing this on Meta, and have posted on Meta:Babel accordingly: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&oldid=17018589#TemplateStyles_extension

I'll leave some notes on the draft tomorrow. Thanks!

In T110170#3427264, @Qgil wrote:

As per T116271, the plan is to start deploying in mediawiki.org only. In that task there is a link to the community check.

In T110170#3426245, @greg wrote:

Neat! (Yes I was being lazy...)

Who'll be the shepherd to get this out in production?

@JMinor great, that sounds reasonable to me. Hopefully it will to others. Thanks!

In T167976#3365865, @JMinor wrote:

Due to overlap with Gather and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.

Makes sense, thank you.