I started working with Wikimedia since Feb, 2019. My primarily work will be on the Translate extension and translatewiki.net.
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- Feb 25 2019, 5:15 AM (397 w, 2 d)
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- APatro (WMF) [ Global Accounts ]
Yesterday
I have confirmed that the user agent is being sent as translatewiki.net MediaWiki updater (translatewiki@translatewiki.net). @hashar can you confirm that this would be enough to exempt the machine from the rate limits that we were seeing with Gerrit?
This now tests well on https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewArticle. Its rolling out via the train this week.
Tested on simple English wiki. Created a redirect from NYC_City to New York City. Works as expected.
Mon, Oct 5
The change is deployed on production. Will QA for a couple of weeks during deployment to ensure that the issue doesn't happen anymore.
Fri, Oct 2
Thu, Oct 1
I've documented the approach we plan to take here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APatro_(WMF)/ULS_Rollout_Across_Skins
Wed, Sep 30
- Q4: Content patterns are matched against the translation from the development branch.
- Q9: Rules are global. Only MediaWiki core, skins and extensions have backports and they all follow the same rules.
- Q10: Sorry, the question was not clear. I agree with both points. Rules are checked only when the development branch has a translation. When a translation is removed, no rule applies, even a rule without a content pattern. When a rule skips a translation, the target branch keeps its current translation.
Some thoughts:
Tue, Sep 29
Another way to fix this: bin/clupdate-git-repo already avoids puppet by exporting GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT. Adding the same line to bin/wikiupdate-repo would work too.
Entered KHK2017 165 --> picked [KHK2017] 165 --> title is (KHK2017) 165
@eamedina Is the ArticleGuidanceRedirectEnabled set to true for Betawiki? I don't see it: https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=ArticleGuidanceRedirectEnabled&files=&excludeFiles=&repos=#operations/mediawiki-config
Thu, Sep 24
Tue, Sep 22
Mon, Sep 21
Will be riding the train this week.
Thu, Sep 17
Wed, Sep 16
Release is complete. Moving it to needs QA for monitoring.
We're not sure about the future of the feature deployed in T433483: Redirect "suggest a new type" to per-wiki talk page with localised message template. It doesn't make sense to add a community configuration and then remove it later. We're putting this on hold until we have more clarity.
@hueitan Please see the original issue (T431596: Duplicate language selector box) that was being solved by the higher z-index. Increasing the z-index will cause that issue to re-appear. We may need to be able to specify z-index for different instances of the language selector.
Tue, Sep 15
@KartikMistry I did a quick test of the server and it seems to be working well. I think we can mark this task as done, unless there is something else pending.
Fri, Sep 11
Thu, Sep 10
Tests well on Test Wikipedia:
The server setup is completed and all traffic is now moving towards web3.translatewiki.net.
Wed, Sep 9
Tue, Sep 8
I think ULS should still be available and open entrypoints when there are no interlanguage links. An explicit visual indicator to show that there are no inter-language links would be good to have but not mandatory. Just displaying it as an active clickable item is better than what we have right now.
Mon, Sep 7
Waiting for exports to happen on Thursday.
Project is available for translation: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?group=mwgithub-namespacemanager
Sep 3 2026
Aug 31 2026
This is done, and deployed on translatewiki.net. The old cron has been removed.
PR looks good from our side. Waiting for feedback from Edly team before resolving.
Tested this locally by pulling the latest versions. Works well.
From web3:
$ puppet --version 8.10.0
From web3:
$ curl -s localhost:9200 | grep -E '"number"|"distribution"' "distribution" : "opensearch", "number" : "2.19.5",
Testing the patch by modifying one of the language codes in the DOM:
Note that after we switched to the MultiselectLookupLanguageSelector.
Aug 30 2026
Aug 28 2026
All the groups have been enabled. Upstream fix: https://github.com/wikimedia/openedx-translations/pull/16
Aug 27 2026
Aug 26 2026
We're still echo'ing the variable based on the current skin and the supported skin list (wgULSLanguageSelectorV2SupportedSkins) so that usage can continue to stay.
Aug 25 2026
Another thought: we could detect the indentation from the source language.
Additional note regarding the fallback page handling. The fallback page is the ArticleGuidance talk page on mediawiki.org, and on that it doesn't make sense to have a localized subject title, so that will only be in English.

