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Matthew Flaschen Software Engineer, Collaboration T eam, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Matthew Flaschen Software Engineer, Collaboration T eam, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Matthew Flaschen Software Engineer, Collaboration T eam, Wikimedia Foundation Converting LiquidThreads to Flow Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the batch But First A Long Introduction Wikipedia Matthew Flaschen Software
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But First
A Long Introduction
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Wikipedia
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Matthew Flaschen
Software Engineer, Collaboration T eam, Wikimedia Foundation
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Discussion!
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LiquidThreads
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Flow
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Storage model
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Conversion Goals
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T est with real data locally
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Future fmexibility in import source
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Resumability
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Preserve attribution and history
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Conversion Architecture
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Abstract API handling
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Source store
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Data mapping
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Map similar Thread → T
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Summary → Summary Page → Description Post → Post
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Mock dissimilar Moved posts Hidden user names
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Converting LiquidThreads to Flow
(on offjcewiki)
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Converting LiquidThreads to Flow
(on MediaWiki.org)
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MediaWiki.org
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Conversion Rollout
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2 pages 5 pages
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2 pages 5 pages 24 pages
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2 pages 5 pages 24 pages
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2 pages 5 pages 24 pages
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Don't try this at home.
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"/tmp/${page//\//-}.log";
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250 pages, without user talk
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All remaining except the two hard ones
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Is it that bad, sir? Looks like it's pretty hairy.
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A classic
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T alk:Wikimedia engineering 20% policy
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__proto__
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A tale of two syntaxes
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alias = '__proto__'; this.magicWords[alias]
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hasOwnProperty (or ECMAScript maps)
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A tale of one annoying syntax
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Not valid in HTML5
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User not fully renamed
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Almost done
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page='Talk:Groups/Proposals/Ciudad de México'; echo "/tmp/${page//\//-}.log"; /tmp/Talk:Groups/Proposals/Ciudad de México.log
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page='Talk:Groups/Proposals/Ciudad de Mexico'; echo "/tmp/${page//\//-}.log"; /tmp/Talk:Groups-Proposals-Ciudad de Mexico.log
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That's what sed's for. ;)
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$(echo "$page"|sed 's#/#-#g')
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Performance
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T echnique: Install XDebug to profjle memory usage
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T echnique: Difgerent cache handling for batch
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The Last Page
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Fatal error: Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting! in /srv/mediawiki/php- 1.26wmf18/vendor/zordius/lightncandy/src/lightn candy.php on line 2150 Call Stack: 0.0003 663088 1. {main}() /srv/mediawiki/multiversion/MWScript.php:0 0.0179 1097424 2. require_once('/srv/mediawiki/php- 1.26wmf18/extensions/Flow/maintenance/convertLq tPageOnLocalWiki.php') /srv/mediawiki/multiversion/MWScript.php:97 0.0199 1753856 3. require_once('/srv/mediawiki/php- 1.26wmf18/maintenance/doMaintenance.php') /srv/mediawiki/php- 1.26wmf18/extensions/Flow/maintenance/convertLq tPageOnLocalWiki.php:91 ...
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Credit
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David McCabe
For writing LiquidThreads
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Andrew Garrett
For major long-term new work
- n LiquidThreads
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Danny Horn Nick Wilson
For project management and community coordination in a shifting timeline
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Andrew Garrett Erik Bernhardson Matthias Mullie Matthew Flaschen
For implementation of LiquidThreads->Flow conversion
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LiquidThreads and Flow contributors
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The Collaboration T eam
For ongoing new work on opt-in, conversion, and just awesome stufg all around
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It is the stated position(not really) of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the
- ccurrence of such events as
are depicted in this presentation.
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Culture
Stanley Kubrick – How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb James T aylor - Mexico
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