Wikitech-l October 2008

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by David Gerard

All over the computer press this morning: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art… Also in the Slashdot queue, please click up: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1290215 This is a geekly-interest story that draws attention to what we do behind the scenes, not just having a nice popular website but how we get there. And, of course, how to do a top 10 website on approximately NO MONEY (give or take a few million, but you'll be going *way* down the Alexa ranks to find a site that does as much as we do with so little). Many of the comments on the press stories are armchair sysadmins going "fools, why not my-fave-distro?!" - if someone could please write a note on "why Ubuntu", it would likely be useful for press purposes. - d.

15 years, 6 months

Transcode video/audio on upload using Panda Stream?

by Brianna Laugher

Hi, Could this software/service be used to support functionality to transcode video/audio on upload for MediaWiki? <http://pandastream.com/> It says it has "Support for the numerous encoding profiles FFmpeg supports" and according to the Wikipedia article this includes Ogg Theora and Vorbis. As a service it uses Amazon's Web Services, but I guess it would be cheaper for WMF to run it on its own services. They call themselves open source and I don't know what this license is called, but it certainly seems very liberal: <http://github.com/newbamboo/panda/tree/master/LICENSE> cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

15 years, 6 months

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [41988] trunk/extensions/Configure

by Bryan Tong Minh

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:46 AM, <ialex(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Revision: 41988 > Author: ialex > Date: 2008-10-12 09:46:23 +0000 (Sun, 12 Oct 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > Added a read-only API module > [...] > Added: trunk/extensions/Configure/Configure.api.php > =================================================================== > --- trunk/extensions/Configure/Configure.api.php (rev 0) > +++ trunk/extensions/Configure/Configure.api.php 2008-10-12 09:46:23 UTC (rev 41988) > @@ -0,0 +1,317 @@ [...] > + $this->dieusage( 'You need to call efConfigureSetup() to use this module', 'noconf' ); (and other instances) It's ApiBase::dieUsage (camelCase), not dieusage. Bryan

15 years, 6 months

Read-only on s2 wikis

by Tim Starling

Same old story, disk full on a core master server (ixia) caused binlogs to stop 10 minutes before the issue was noticed and I switched it into read-only mode. Writes continued during those 10 minutes. I'm resyncing from the master, the s2 wikis are in read-only mode while that happens, it seems to be taking about 1.5 hours in total. The server was in nagios and was reporting a critical disk full status. I'm not sure exactly when it entered that state. I'm inclined to think that the issue here is not the need for more technology, but rather the need for procedures. There's no point in having monitoring if nobody is watching the output. If it had happened an hour later, I would have been in bed, and nobody else was around. The users in #wikimedia-tech tell me they would have waited for hours before trying to phone anyone. So we need out-of-hours response procedures as well. I think we need: * A systems checklist to be checked daily, independently by two different people and cross-checked weekly; * An SMS paging system for out-of-hours response, both automated and manual (user-driven). -- Tim Starling

15 years, 6 months

Bugzilla Weekly Report

by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for October 06, 2008 - October 13, 2008 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 195 Bugs ASSIGNED : 8 Bugs REOPENED : 30 Bugs RESOLVED : 119 Total bugs still open: 3048 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 69 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 15 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 12 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 15 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 6 Bugs marked LATER : 2 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component User interface 11 Special pages 6 Site requests 6 General/Unknown 6 Semantic Forms 5 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 40 Wikimedia 9 MediaWiki extensions 17 Top 5 Bug Resolvers JSchulz_4587 [AT] msn.com 30 tstarling [AT] wikimedia.org 14 roan.kattouw [AT] home.nl 11 niklas.laxstrom [AT] gmail.com 10 Simetrical+wikibugs [AT] gmail.com 5

15 years, 6 months

[MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [41983] trunk/phase3

by Bryan Tong Minh

Log message? > From: skizzerz(a)svn.wikimedia.org <skizzerz(a)svn.wikimedia.org> > Date: Oct 12, 2008 4:20 AM > Subject: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [41983] trunk/phase3 > To: mediawiki-cvs(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > Revision: 41983 > Author: skizzerz > Date: 2008-10-12 02:20:08 +0000 (Sun, 12 Oct 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > > > Modified Paths: > -------------- > trunk/phase3/includes/parser/Parser.php > trunk/phase3/maintenance/parserTests.txt > > Modified: trunk/phase3/includes/parser/Parser.php > =================================================================== > --- trunk/phase3/includes/parser/Parser.php 2008-10-12 00:18:58 > UTC (rev 41982) > +++ trunk/phase3/includes/parser/Parser.php 2008-10-12 02:20:08 > UTC (rev 41983) > @@ -4190,23 +4190,20 @@ > */ > $nl = array_key_exists( 'compact', $param ) ? '' : "\n"; > > - $tag = $this->insertStripItem( " ", $this->mStripState ); > + $replacer = new DoubleReplacer( ' ', ' ' ); > + $text = $this->recursiveTagParse( $in ); > + $text = $this->mStripState->unstripNoWiki( $text ); > // Only strip the very first and very last \n (which > trim cannot do) > - $text = $in; > - if( substr( $in, 0, 1 ) == "\n" ) > - $text = substr( $in, 1 ); > + if( substr( $text, 0, 1 ) == "\n" ) > + $text = substr( $text, 1 ); > if( substr( $text, -1 ) == "\n" ) > $text = substr( $text, 0, -1 ); > > - $text = str_replace( "\n", "$tag\n", $text ); > + $text = str_replace( "\n", " \n", $text ); > $text = preg_replace_callback( > "/^( +)/m", > - create_function( > - '$matches', > - 'return str_replace(" ", " ", > "$matches[0]");' > - ), > + $replacer->cb(), > $text ); > - $text = $this->recursiveTagParse( $text ); > > // Pass HTML attributes through to the output. > $attribs = Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes( $param, 'div' ); > @@ -4218,7 +4215,7 @@ > $attribs['class'] = 'poem'; > } > > - return XML::openElement( 'div', $attribs ) . $nl . > trim( $text ) . $nl . XML::closeElement( 'div' ); > + return Xml::openElement( 'div', $attribs ) . $nl . > trim( $text ) . $nl . Xml::closeElement( 'div' ); > } > > function getImageParams( $handler ) { > > Modified: trunk/phase3/maintenance/parserTests.txt > =================================================================== > --- trunk/phase3/maintenance/parserTests.txt 2008-10-12 00:18:58 > UTC (rev 41982) > +++ trunk/phase3/maintenance/parserTests.txt 2008-10-12 02:20:08 > UTC (rev 41983) > @@ -7234,9 +7234,7 @@ > this > is > a > -test > - > - > +test > </div> > > !!end > @@ -7256,9 +7254,7 @@ > this > '''is''' > a > -test > - > - > +test > </div> > > !! end > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-CVS mailing list > MediaWiki-CVS(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-cvs >

15 years, 6 months

Dumps are currently halted...

by Jochen Magnus

Hello admins and hostmasters, download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html says: "Dumps are currently halted pending resolution of disk space issues. Hopefully will be resolved shortly." Meanwhile some weeks have passed, the german dump is six weeks old. May we still stay hopefully? Thank you! jo

15 years, 6 months

More image loss

by Alex

(Due to my laziness in not wanting to type the email address, this got sent as a reply to another thread before) > There seems to be problems with image loss again. > > At least 12 from enwiki recently reported in > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Missing_images_for_speedy_deletion Though I found out a few minutes later that there is already a list of missing images at http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/image-check/2008-10-10. -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)

15 years, 6 months

What about Special:Popularpages ??

by Uwe Baumbach

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, in our wiki $wgDisableCounters remains false as it defaults. Nevertheless we cannot get special page content Special:Popularpages or Spezial:Beliebteste_Seiten Any suggests? Thx. Uwe (Baumbach) http://wiki-de.genealogy.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI8b+FFEbayCH8zXkRAk9xAJwLhUpE6oiRsACxE9RLBzYltJKw4ACgq4Rn /h1Gyod1MawAFcqLu6icOVc= =Cgvx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

15 years, 6 months

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia moves to Ubuntu press stories

by nsk

Le samedi 11 octobre 2008 à 16:21 +0000, wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org a écrit : > From: Tei <oscar.vives(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia moves to Ubuntu press stories > Seems debian upgrades are painless. Yes, a Debian upgrade has never created any problems for me. > Sysadmins seems > much dependants of Google searches (?). And google search has become > some sort of "Ubuntu manual", while information about debian stuff is > often below a pile of random crap (the "for humans" motto seems to > work here, googling for information in google using "Debian" + "error > message" always show crazy useless craps from logs and robots, never > forums with sane or usable information. Debian is a community distribution. This means that, supposing you have RTFM and didn't find an answer there, and that the question is not trivial, the best way to get answers is to ask a fellow Debian user in the community. It's from person to person, either via IRC or mailing lists, not through impersonal searches that you get the most useful answers. -- Thanks, NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, http://karastathis.org/

15 years, 7 months

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