Greetings, programs!
This week's update will be brief, if optimistic:
On the news front, there have been performance and reliability issues
with Gluster than are being worked on by Ryan Lane. He is experimenting
with an upcoming network driver and tweaking with automount timing to
improve the situation. Along with the database replication, the shared
storage is one of the key component of the infrastructure that are going
to receive the most attention in the short term.
There is now a new project (named, predictably enough, "tools") that is
the intended destination of the new architecture for the Tool Labs. We
have a functionnal webservice environment, as well as a workable compute
cluster to support work and long running processes. Already, a few
brave souls have stepped forward to test that new environment; others
are welcome to peek in or join the project with the usual "beta" caveats.
I'm not ready to open the gates entirely yet, since none of the
management is currently automatized (that's a big part of my TODO for
the week); but tools which have no dependencies on access to databases
should already be able to be experimentally moved to the new project.
This week, I plan to concentrate on the first draft of an interface
through which tool maintainers can manage their assets on the project,
and do a first documentation pass regarding how to write and/or move a
tool on the new project.
-- Marc
Forwarding a link from the EE list for the enjoyment of workaholics and volunteers who check their email on weekends. If you get this email while you're working paid time, please wait until you're on free time. (: http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life
Cheers,
Pine
FYI
More testers would be awesome :) (Not to mention patches :) )
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:53 PM
Subject: Android Commons app "Stable" and "Beta" channels
To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone!
The Wikimedia Commons app on Android has been on play store([1]:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikimedia.commons) for a
week now,. I just pushed out an update - the app will be updated every
week. The app on the play store uploads directly to Commons and should be
considered the 'release' channel.
There is now also a 'beta' channel, available by installing the apk from
http://bit.ly/commons-beta
(expanded URL
https://integration.mediawiki.org/nightly/mobile/android-commons/android-co…
)
This is very close to a nightly - will be updated every day or so. It also
has a menu item 'Update App' which will blindly get you the latest version.
This will *always* upload to testwiki, so you can feel free to upload
whatever.
This is to make sure that people who want to test the app (and hence
testwiki) also have a way of actually uploading pictures to Commons! The
iOS app has a 'toggle' in the app itself to fix this, but due to how the
app is architected this is not possible in Android. Hence two apps.
Test on!
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Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
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Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Congratulations to volunteer Marius Hoch (Hoo man) who now has +2 rights
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/%2B2 in MediaWiki core and all MediaWiki
extensions. He can thus give binding reviews to your changesets.
Marius has been participating in Wikimedia projects for several years,
and has most recently been contributing a lot to AbuseFilter and
CentralAuth (including as a maintainer), and to Wikidata.
Thanks for your work, Hoo man!
This now makes 14 core MediaWiki maintainers who do not work for the
Wikimedia Foundation (including Daniel Kinzler of WMDE).
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:40:55 -0800
> From: Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr>
> To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] "Pictures from a developer's life"
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> Le 03/03/13 09:39, ENWP Pine a écrit :
> > Forwarding a link from the EE list for the enjoyment of workaholics and volunteers who check their email on weekends. If you get this email while you're working paid time, please wait until you're on free time. (: http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life
> >
>
> Do you know this is a serious mailing list? Not a place to hangout with
> your friends and share dumb stuff. There are other services to do that.
>
> --
> Antoine "hashar" Musso
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Sigh. The EE list is a normally "serious" list too, and that doesn't stop people from smiling once in awhile. This was sent to EE by someone from an @wikimedia.org email address.
Anyway, since there are apparently strong feelings against building morale or camaraderie on the Wikitech list, I won't do this again.
Pine
Because resources are expensive, we decided to make few huge instances
on bots project rather than ton of small as we have now.
So in upcoming weeks it would be cool to migrate all db's from sql1
sql2 and sql3 to bsql01 which has 16gb ram and 160gb storage
you might want to move your bots from rather testing instances bots-N
(1, 2...) to bots-bnr1 which is huge as well.
In a month or sooner, we could remove some of sql servers and some
bots-N servers.
In future, as Coren said, we will host bots on tool-lab I suppose we
will hear more about it from Coren in Amsterdam, so this is rather a
temporary workaround, though who knows, maybe we could keep bots
project in future to host some very special and specific bots, where
root access is needed for operators or dedicated instances, including
labs - dedicated bots, such as bottie, morebots etc
Hi folks,
we have an old problem that talks sink in the archives of talk pages and
village pumps. I already wrote a bot for huwiki that creates tables of
contents for these pages, but this is far not enough. The idea is to use
tags, For example, if the use of disambiguation pages has come up 113 times
in various village pumps, noticeboards and talk pages, a tag could help
users to connect these talks and find them.
For the solution, there is a trivial way: use templates. Several templates
can be placed in a section. As the tag itself could be the parameter of the
template, special:whatlinkshere will unfortunately not help to collect
tags. A bot may easily be written for this purpose, not a big task.
For what I write this here: is there a way so that mediaWiki or an
extension could solve this task more efficiently? Is this a good idea for
someone for GSoC?
Tasks:
* Easily place new tags to sections, choose among the existing or create
new.
* Easily find tagged sections in talk pages, village pumps, noticeboards
and archives of these.
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Bináris
