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Recent Activity

Mon, Oct 5

• Samwilson added a comment to T439663: HTTP 503 error: Document exporter from pages does not work (not possible to export pdf, rtf, txt).

Does EPUB work?

Mon, Oct 5, 10:07 AM · WS Export

Sun, Oct 4

• Samwilson added a comment to T436848: Wikisource compresses book scan width to the lower quality.

for cases like the 864px page (where 960 isn’t available so it drops to 500), do you want ProofreadPage to round up to the next allowed size, or is the reupload workaround what you’d rather people do for now?

Sun, Oct 4, 1:21 AM · ProofreadPage, All-and-every-Wikisource, Wikimedia OCR

Fri, Oct 2

• Samwilson removed a watcher for Community-Wishlist-Survey-2023: • Samwilson.
Fri, Oct 2, 10:17 PM
• Samwilson removed a watcher for MediaWiki-File-management: • Samwilson.
Fri, Oct 2, 1:47 AM

Thu, Oct 1

• Samwilson removed a watcher for MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team: • Samwilson.
Thu, Oct 1, 12:31 AM

Sat, Sep 26

• Samwilson added a comment to T436848: Wikisource compresses book scan width to the lower quality.

A workaround is to upload a version of this file with page widths greater than 960px.

Sat, Sep 26, 8:57 AM · ProofreadPage, All-and-every-Wikisource, Wikimedia OCR

Fri, Sep 25

• Samwilson closed T437192: Set up Imagor and a demo wiki, a subtask of T436278: Experiment: imagor as a potential thumbor replacement, as Resolved.
Fri, Sep 25, 1:08 AM · Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson closed T437192: Set up Imagor and a demo wiki as Resolved.

This is all done. The docs are on mw.o, and I've got a demo extension in the works for some other ideas.

Fri, Sep 25, 1:08 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson closed T439110: Hitting thumb failure-limit returns HTTP 500 rather than 429 as Resolved.
Fri, Sep 25, 12:56 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.22; 2026-09-29), Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team

Thu, Sep 24

• Samwilson created T439110: Hitting thumb failure-limit returns HTTP 500 rather than 429.
Thu, Sep 24, 8:42 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.22; 2026-09-29), Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a project to T439053: Remove qlow JPEG quality parameter: Thumbor.
Thu, Sep 24, 5:29 AM · Patch-For-Review, Technical-Debt, Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team

Tue, Sep 22

• Samwilson updated the task description for T437192: Set up Imagor and a demo wiki.
Tue, Sep 22, 5:52 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson updated the task description for T437192: Set up Imagor and a demo wiki.
Tue, Sep 22, 5:52 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a comment to T436278: Experiment: imagor as a potential thumbor replacement.

A few (non-scientific) comparisons between MediaWiki and Imagor (mean times of running 12 requests for each on my laptop):

Tue, Sep 22, 5:22 AM · Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team

Mon, Sep 21

• Samwilson updated the task description for T436278: Experiment: imagor as a potential thumbor replacement.
Mon, Sep 21, 8:35 AM · Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a comment to T417853: Restrict Bulk OCR to users with the 'bot' user right.

A new right sounds sensible. But the extension also needs to check for the bot right, so that the edits can be tagged as such. (Or should that be optional? i.e. if a community doesn't mind no-bot-flagged edits in the RC, then they can configure it like that?)

Mon, Sep 21, 5:56 AM · Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR

Sat, Sep 19

• Samwilson added a comment to T438140: Cannot insert a template with subst: in VisualEditor since the new template search widget.

We talked ages ago about adding a dropdown to the 'Insert' button so that it could be 'Insert' or 'Substitute' (or 'Subst'), to make easier for the user to choose at the point of inserting. That'd avoid i18n issues with looking for specifically subst in the search string.

Sat, Sep 19, 12:28 AM · Essential-Work, Verified, MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.22; 2026-09-29), Editing-team (FY2026-27 Q1 sprint 6), Regression, Template-Discovery-And-Recall, MediaWiki-extensions-TemplateWizard, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Templates, VisualEditor

Wed, Sep 16

• Samwilson added a comment to T436201: Special:UploadStash accepts non-canonical paths with trailing characters.

Oh oops, sorry! Thanks for reopening.

Wed, Sep 16, 8:07 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.22; 2026-09-29), MediaWiki-Uploading, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a comment to T417853: Restrict Bulk OCR to users with the 'bot' user right.

Okay, fair enough. Can you update the description with what you've got in mind?

Wed, Sep 16, 6:49 AM · Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
• Samwilson updated the task description for T438089: Call 'magick' instead of the deprecated 'convert' command.
Wed, Sep 16, 6:22 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Vagrant, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson added a comment to T417853: Restrict Bulk OCR to users with the 'bot' user right.

I don't think it needs to be restricted to separate bot accounts. That's not how things such as AWB are done, is it? This is similar.

Wed, Sep 16, 5:19 AM · Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
• Samwilson renamed T417853: Restrict Bulk OCR to users with the 'bot' user right from Restrict Bulk OCR to users in the 'bot' group to Restrict Bulk OCR to users with the 'bot' user right.
Wed, Sep 16, 5:15 AM · Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR

Tue, Sep 15

• Samwilson added a project to T438089: Call 'magick' instead of the deprecated 'convert' command: MediaWiki-Vagrant.
Tue, Sep 15, 11:02 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Vagrant, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson moved T394130: Add popup to allow engine and model selection before bulk OCR happens from Inbox (Untriaged) to Code Review on the MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team board.
Tue, Sep 15, 10:55 PM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech, All-and-every-Wikisource
• Samwilson triaged T438089: Call 'magick' instead of the deprecated 'convert' command as Low priority.
Tue, Sep 15, 10:55 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Vagrant, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson moved T438089: Call 'magick' instead of the deprecated 'convert' command from In Progress to Code Review on the MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team board.
Tue, Sep 15, 10:55 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Vagrant, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson moved T438089: Call 'magick' instead of the deprecated 'convert' command from Inbox (Untriaged) to In Progress on the MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team board.
Tue, Sep 15, 10:55 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Vagrant, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson added a comment to T438000: Transparent PNGs have opaque thumbnails.

Switching to magick is tracked in T438089.

Tue, Sep 15, 10:18 PM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson created T438089: Call 'magick' instead of the deprecated 'convert' command.
Tue, Sep 15, 10:15 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Vagrant, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson added a comment to T438000: Transparent PNGs have opaque thumbnails.

It looks like it's worked correctly to me, at least for File:Wikipedia Administrator Checkuser Oversight (2026).png. Where are you seeing it not work?

Tue, Sep 15, 9:58 PM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson closed T287846: Transparent PNG recoded to JPG with black background (should be white) as Resolved.

This looks like it's working now. Although there's a similar bug that's recently arisen: T438000

Tue, Sep 15, 10:38 AM · Thumbor
• Samwilson closed T287846: Transparent PNG recoded to JPG with black background (should be white) , a subtask of T287854: Ws-export: re-encode PNGs to JPG, as Resolved.
Tue, Sep 15, 10:38 AM · User-Inductiveload, WS Export
• Samwilson updated the task description for T438000: Transparent PNGs have opaque thumbnails.
Tue, Sep 15, 10:31 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson created T438000: Transparent PNGs have opaque thumbnails.
Tue, Sep 15, 10:07 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson created T437975: Inconsistent error message localization for thumb.php.
Tue, Sep 15, 5:17 AM · MediaWiki-File-management

Sep 11 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T437192: Set up Imagor and a demo wiki.

I've set up MediaWiki at https://imagor-demo.wmcloud.org and Imagor at https://imagor-demo-thumb.wmcloud.org, with originals and thumbs both being saved to S3 (separate buckets). There are still some issues; I'll document them more soon.

Sep 11 2026, 11:38 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson closed T436201: Special:UploadStash accepts non-canonical paths with trailing characters as Resolved.
Sep 11 2026, 3:57 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.22; 2026-09-29), MediaWiki-Uploading, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team

Sep 10 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T437349: wsexport traffic issues.

Thanks for working on this!

Sep 10 2026, 2:47 AM · WS Export, All-and-every-Wikisource

Sep 9 2026

• Samwilson closed T437404: thumbor-plugins uses deprecated utcfromtimestamp() as Resolved.
Sep 9 2026, 10:16 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson claimed T437192: Set up Imagor and a demo wiki.

A few notes:

Sep 9 2026, 8:50 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson moved T437192: Set up Imagor and a demo wiki from Inbox (Untriaged) to In Progress on the MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team board.
Sep 9 2026, 7:38 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson created T437404: thumbor-plugins uses deprecated utcfromtimestamp().
Sep 9 2026, 6:28 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson moved T437398: thumbor-plugins tests are not running in CI from In Progress to Code Review on the MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team board.
Sep 9 2026, 6:16 AM · Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a comment to T437398: thumbor-plugins tests are not running in CI.

It looks like T245440 is being hit again:

Sep 9 2026, 2:16 AM · Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson assigned T437398: thumbor-plugins tests are not running in CI to Ladsgroup.
Sep 9 2026, 2:14 AM · Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson created T437398: thumbor-plugins tests are not running in CI.
Sep 9 2026, 2:14 AM · Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a comment to T436848: Wikisource compresses book scan width to the lower quality.

Yeah this looks like it's not a bug with OCR, but with Wikimedia's thumbnail size picking.

Sep 9 2026, 1:16 AM · ProofreadPage, All-and-every-Wikisource, Wikimedia OCR

Sep 8 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T436556: Preview prevents switching from Source to Visual editing.

I'm not sure what else would break, but changing {{sticky header}}'s styles to a lower z-index might fix it. Currently things are:

Sep 8 2026, 5:20 AM · VisualEditor, Realtime Preview, OOUI

Sep 7 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T437088: Request creation of imagor VPS project.

Yes, whatever they prefer is fine by me!

Sep 7 2026, 9:44 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Cloud-VPS (Project-requests)
• Samwilson created T437192: Set up Imagor and a demo wiki.
Sep 7 2026, 8:39 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a comment to T437088: Request creation of imagor VPS project.

Should we name the project after the team, e.g. mediaplatform, so we can use it for other experiments in the future?

Sep 7 2026, 1:45 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Cloud-VPS (Project-requests)
• Samwilson closed T437155: Long titles do not wrap as Resolved.
Sep 7 2026, 1:00 AM · RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager
• Samwilson added a comment to T437155: Long titles do not wrap.

Great, thanks! Looks good.

Sep 7 2026, 12:42 AM · RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager

Sep 6 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T437155: Long titles do not wrap.

Right, but I'm just wondering if you would mind sharing a screenshot of your local development wiki showing the changes that your patch makes to the list of redirects of a page?

Sep 6 2026, 11:30 AM · RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager
• Samwilson added a comment to T437155: Long titles do not wrap.

Oh, sorry, I meant of the dialog window, showing the wrapping of a title or two.

Sep 6 2026, 11:18 AM · RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager
• Samwilson added a comment to T437155: Long titles do not wrap.

Would you mind attaching a screenshot of your patch in action?

Sep 6 2026, 10:29 AM · RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager
• Samwilson created T437155: Long titles do not wrap.
Sep 6 2026, 12:47 AM · RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager

Sep 4 2026

• Samwilson removed a project from T433174: Add indeterminate progress bar showing background OCR processing: MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team.

This looks like it's all done. Leaving it open in case there's a QA check to be done.

Sep 4 2026, 2:02 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.17; 2026-08-25), Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia OCR
• Samwilson closed T433059: PDF preview oddness as Resolved.

For these images, img_width is still being populated so metadata must have been extracted correctly and just saved wrong.

Sep 4 2026, 1:48 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.16; 2026-08-18), RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler
• Samwilson closed T435609: Stop using pkg_resources in thumbor as Resolved.

r1333246 is merged but it lost it's Bug: line.

Sep 4 2026, 12:43 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor

Sep 3 2026

• Samwilson closed T436897: Bare /thumbor/ URL returns 500 (AttributeError) as Resolved.
Sep 3 2026, 12:46 PM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson added a comment to T434901: Thumbor online tests use non-standard thumbnail sizes.

Is there a way to run the tests locally? I've never managed to because they just get hit with 429 errors (for the requests for originals).

Sep 3 2026, 7:17 AM · Thumbor
• Samwilson created T436897: Bare /thumbor/ URL returns 500 (AttributeError).
Sep 3 2026, 6:57 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson added a project to T436893: Error message while trying to open a pdf: MediaWiki-File-management.
Sep 3 2026, 5:55 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management
• Samwilson added a comment to T436893: Error message while trying to open a pdf.

Is this when you view pages of the PDF on the file description page, or when you click on the file thumbnail to download the whole thing?

Sep 3 2026, 5:55 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management

Sep 2 2026

• Samwilson assigned T435609: Stop using pkg_resources in thumbor to Ladsgroup.
Sep 2 2026, 7:21 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Thumbor
• Samwilson closed T436203: Send a CSP header from Special:UploadStash as Resolved.

Special:UploadStash now sends a CSP header when sending a file. e.g.:

Sep 2 2026, 7:14 AM · MediaWiki-Uploading, MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.18; 2026-09-01), MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team

Sep 1 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T263081: Create Importer user group.

I've added you as a maintainer to https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/tools/id/wikispore and invited you to https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/wikispore-config

Sep 1 2026, 11:17 PM · Wikispore
• Samwilson added a comment to T436432: Proxy Error while trying to export from french Wikisource with WS Export.

Actually, most of those options can be left out, they're the defaults (not the margin or the page-breaks-before but they don't matter that much).

Sep 1 2026, 12:15 PM · WS Export
• Samwilson added a comment to T436432: Proxy Error while trying to export from french Wikisource with WS Export.

Yes sure! Sorry. The tool uses a command like the following to produce an A4 PDF:

Sep 1 2026, 12:04 PM · WS Export

Aug 31 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T263081: Create Importer user group.

It looks like that config change also needs to be added to https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/wikispore-config

Aug 31 2026, 10:30 PM · Wikispore
• Samwilson added a comment to T436551: Wikimedia OCR fails.

I've merged and released the above fix. Thanks everyone!

Aug 31 2026, 8:33 PM · Wikimedia OCR, All-and-every-Wikisource
• Samwilson added a comment to T435028: Core tests fail with Echo but not Flow installed.

I'm not sure why it's passing in CI. Your hypothesis sounds correct. Or perhaps there's some sort of shared state that only happens when all tests are run (i.e. PageUpdaterTest is never run on its own).

Aug 31 2026, 10:40 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.18; 2026-09-01), MediaWiki-Core-Platform-Team, Notifications (Echo), MediaWiki-Core-Tests
• Samwilson updated the task description for T436505: 400 Bad Request on File:Warsaw Pact in 1990 (orthographic projection).svg.
Aug 31 2026, 9:44 AM · MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, Commons, Thumbor
• Samwilson added a comment to T436432: Proxy Error while trying to export from french Wikisource with WS Export.

I have exported corectly with your link... but in PDF it still doesnt work

Aug 31 2026, 6:46 AM · WS Export
• Samwilson merged T436432: Proxy Error while trying to export from french Wikisource with WS Export into T431640: Improve uptime of WS Export's Calibre server.
Aug 31 2026, 6:45 AM · WS Export
• Samwilson merged task T436432: Proxy Error while trying to export from french Wikisource with WS Export into T431640: Improve uptime of WS Export's Calibre server.
Aug 31 2026, 6:45 AM · WS Export
• Samwilson closed T436202: Omitting thumbnail width causes exception in Special:UploadStash as Resolved.

Okay sure, I guess this one is all done then.

Aug 31 2026, 5:30 AM · MediaWiki-Uploading, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a project to T436201: Special:UploadStash accepts non-canonical paths with trailing characters: MediaWiki-Uploading.
Aug 31 2026, 5:25 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.22; 2026-09-29), MediaWiki-Uploading, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a comment to T436202: Omitting thumbnail width causes exception in Special:UploadStash.

It looks like thumbs are now not working for PDFs, e.g. Special:UploadStash/thumb/1cwoifzo1wtc.2jnpbx.2.pdf/page1-120px-1cwoifzo1wtc.2jnpbx.2.pdf.jpg because the filename doesn't end in the stash name (it has .jpg appended).

Aug 31 2026, 5:02 AM · MediaWiki-Uploading, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson added a comment to T435428: Add an image pre-processing option (show-through suppression) before images are sent to OCR engines.

Thanks for this. Merged, and released in 1.11.0.

Aug 31 2026, 3:09 AM · Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia OCR
• Samwilson added a comment to T436340: cannot downoad from wikisource.

I suspect this is a duplicate of T431640.

Aug 31 2026, 1:32 AM · WS Export
• Samwilson added a comment to T436432: Proxy Error while trying to export from french Wikisource with WS Export.

This EPUB export works for me: https://ws-export.wmcloud.org/?lang=fr&page=Monsieur_chasse_!

Aug 31 2026, 1:31 AM · WS Export

Aug 30 2026

• Samwilson added a project to T436278: Experiment: imagor as a potential thumbor replacement: Thumbor.
Aug 30 2026, 12:30 PM · Thumbor, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team
• Samwilson updated the task description for T387107: Replace Thumbor.
Aug 30 2026, 12:30 PM · ServiceOps-Services-Oids, ServiceOps, MediaWiki-Engineering, Thumbor
• Samwilson added a comment to T436432: Proxy Error while trying to export from french Wikisource with WS Export.

What book is this for?

Aug 30 2026, 11:59 AM · WS Export

Aug 29 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T435028: Core tests fail with Echo but not Flow installed.

I've had a go; see the above patch. It appears that there's no need to call it in \MediaWiki\Extension\Notifications\Model\Notification::insert — at least, the tests all pass, and in my testing locally I still correctly get the talk page yellow bar.

Aug 29 2026, 9:39 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.18; 2026-09-01), MediaWiki-Core-Platform-Team, Notifications (Echo), MediaWiki-Core-Tests

Aug 28 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T433059: PDF preview oddness.

Query for files with empty metadata: https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/98617

Aug 28 2026, 11:42 PM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.16; 2026-08-18), RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler
• Samwilson reopened T433059: PDF preview oddness as "Open".

Re-opening as this is still happening. (Although there are plenty of near-duplicate tasks, perhaps this isn't the best one to focus on.)

Aug 28 2026, 11:41 PM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.16; 2026-08-18), RoadToWiki, MediaWiki-Media-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler
• Samwilson updated the task description for T431781: SVG language switch has a full stop between the drop down and button.
Aug 28 2026, 9:54 PM · Patch-For-Review, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, SVG
• Samwilson added a comment to T435028: Core tests fail with Echo but not Flow installed.

@pmiazga What Claude says sounds plausible (hmm... I mean, it would wouldn't it! :-P ) but it sounds like you're not able to reproduce this locally yourself? I'll try to see what I've got in my config that might be changing things.

Aug 28 2026, 11:03 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.18; 2026-09-01), MediaWiki-Core-Platform-Team, Notifications (Echo), MediaWiki-Core-Tests
• Samwilson added a comment to T218057: Determine workflow to selectively delete potentially privacy-sensitive EXIF fields, such as geocoordinates, from a Wikimedia Commons file.

I changed this from "purge" to "delete", to clarify that this is about removing data and not purging caches.

Aug 28 2026, 5:57 AM · Privacy Engineering, Multimedia, Privacy, Commons, UploadWizard, MediaWiki-File-management
• Samwilson renamed T218057: Determine workflow to selectively delete potentially privacy-sensitive EXIF fields, such as geocoordinates, from a Wikimedia Commons file from Determine workflow to selectively purge potentially privacy-sensitive EXIF fields, such as geocoordinates, from a Wikimedia Commons file to Determine workflow to selectively delete potentially privacy-sensitive EXIF fields, such as geocoordinates, from a Wikimedia Commons file.
Aug 28 2026, 5:56 AM · Privacy Engineering, Multimedia, Privacy, Commons, UploadWizard, MediaWiki-File-management
• Samwilson added a comment to T33221: Audio pronunciation: Automatic text-to-speech to convert IPA to sound.

having to manually make recordings and manage audio files locally as opposed to text entry and dynamic presentation of text?

Aug 28 2026, 3:38 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-Phonos, All-and-every-Wiktionary, MediaWiki-extension-requests
• Samwilson added a comment to T436152: Migrate discourse away from Debian Bullseye to Bookworm/Trixie.

Actually, I've found a newer one: wikimedia-discourse-2019-05-24-033619-v20190110201340.tar.gz

Aug 28 2026, 3:29 AM · Discourse, Cloud-VPS (Debian Bullseye Deprecation)

Aug 27 2026

• Samwilson added a comment to T33221: Audio pronunciation: Automatic text-to-speech to convert IPA to sound.

Yes, Phonos ended up as an inline audio player (which is pretty useful!), after it became apparent that IPA is not an expressive TTS source format.

Aug 27 2026, 11:11 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-Phonos, All-and-every-Wiktionary, MediaWiki-extension-requests
• Samwilson closed T436230: Basic export not working for "Bible (Webster's)" as Resolved.
Aug 27 2026, 11:06 AM · WS Export
• Samwilson renamed T436230: Basic export not working for "Bible (Webster's)" from Basic export not working! https://ws-export.wmcloud.org/?lang=en&title=Bible_(Webster%27s) to Basic export not working for "Bible (Webster's)".
Aug 27 2026, 11:05 AM · WS Export
• Samwilson added a comment to T436230: Basic export not working for "Bible (Webster's)".

It was missing ws-summary, I've added it: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Bible_%28Webster%27s%29&diff=16261935&oldid=14745361

Aug 27 2026, 11:04 AM · WS Export
• Samwilson added a project to T411190: In tamil wikipedia site remove banner button is appearing eventhough there is no banner: DismissableSiteNotice.
Aug 27 2026, 8:48 AM · Patch-For-Review, DismissableSiteNotice, Indic MediaWiki Developers UG, Indic-TechCom, Tamil-Sites