Hello all,
to update a package with a security-problem, I have to restart z-dat-s2-b
today. This will cause sql-s2-user and sql-s2-rr to be down. The downtime wll
start at
TODAY, 19:20 UTC and should not more than a few minutes.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello all,
to re-enable replication on cassia (sql-s5) I have to filter out wikikdata-
data. This requires a restart of the mysql-process. This restart will happen
TODAY, 20:00 UTC.
The downtime of s5 will be ~30 minutes.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello all,
s5 (dewiki) is the next cluster for re-setup. I already got a fresh dump from
the WMF and imported it too on a server. The next step is to move the user-
databases over. For this I have to switch s5 into read-only. The read-only-
phase will start at
Tomorrow, Thursday after 13:00 UTC.
s5 carries a few very big user-databases, so I think the movement will take
more an 1 day. Below is a list of the biggest user-databases, maybe their
owners can take a look if some clean-up is possible?
Unfortunately s5 can not stay at the new place because the server belongs to
OSM. So a second read-only-phase will happen in near future (that one should
be a bit faster because I will just rsync files around instead of importing).
Sincerely,
DaB.
1.2G u_lvova_golem_s2_zh
1.3G u_hroest
1.3G u_rdf_bots
1.6G u_multichill_commons_categories_p
1.7G u_lvova_golem_s5_de
1.8G u_mauro742
2.7G u_dschwen
20G p_merlbot_dewiki_lists
51G p_globalusage_weekly_p
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Hello all,
it looks like the WMF-techs are moving wikidata to cluster s5 at the moment
(without announcement of course).
I'm quite sure that this will break our wikidata-replication; so after my
sleep I will look how the situation will be and than probably re-import
wikidata everywhere (wikidata is still quite small at the moment so that's
still possible). So expect the wikidata replag to rise during the next hours.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Silke Meyer <silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
> I was thinking about the list of tools a bit more... In my opinion, this
> collection of tools should be more visible to the world! There is so
> much work and knowledge in there and partially you really have to dig to
> find them...
> There is this plan to create/improve Labs/Tool Labs so that tools can be
> shared with others more easily. So one very important thing is to *know*
> about existing tools.
> How about dragging these tools into the spotlight? (The ones on the
> toolserver as well as the ones already living in Labs.) The other day I
> heard the proposal from a community member to have featured tools in a
> visible place, e.g. a "tool of the month" or even of the week. I like
> the idea! It could shortly present a tool, what it does, where to find
> it and the person(s) behind.
> What do you think of it? The first place that came to my mind where The
> Signpost and/or German language Kurier where we could suggest this
> topic. I'll be afk for the next few days and I'd be glad to read some
> opinions when back. :)
I've suggested a while back
(https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1271) to import the
old Toolserver blog/comments to blog.wikimedia.de and then
post status and ongoing project reports there. It has a
different audience, probably more (potential) donors :-),
but showing them what "some server in Amsterdam" is used for
isn't a bad idea IMHO.
amaranth needs to be fixed before that, though :-).
Tim
Hello all,
today I discovered (thanks to the mailing-list) that a few users have run
several bot-instances in parallel on willow. I'm sure that these people did it
by mistake, but it is annoying nevertheless and it is easy to fix: Use SGE.
The problem is that I wrote several of eMails about "use SGE!" already and
somehow it did not work as good as it should (if you converted you stuff
already: thank you and you can stop to read here ;-)). I understand that we
all are busy with our lives and Wikipedia and that we all love to "do it
right…later", but as you know that resources of the toolserver are limited. So
I hereby declare the following new rule:
All bots have to run by SGE. A bot is every program or script that makes
changes at a Wikimedia project. It does not matter if the bot runs
periodically or continuous. The only exclusions are a.) interactive bots, b.)
bots that can't run by SGE yet and c.) if you start a bot by hand for testing
(no screen, no cron, no while).
The rule will become active at Sunday, 10. February 2013. Exception b is
almost NEVER the case, if it runs on a shell it is VERY likely that it can run
by SGE.
Some time ago I wrote a simple SGE-how-to at [1]. Maybe you all can take a
look and correct things and make things more clear. In very most cases the
using of SGE IS easy.
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/SGE_for_beginners
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Hey all!
I am impressed! Wondering what tools are actually running on the
toolserver I started a list. It is long! You can admire it here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Toolserver/List_of_Tools
For sure, it is incomplete as I used the toolserver wiki and jira to
find information.
In the light of building Tool Labs to become a platform the tools can
run on, we need more information about the tools. So here is what I ask
all tool developers for:
* Please check if your tools are on the list (correctly).
* Please fill in your software dependencies, data dependencies, use
patterns (are they running continously? or webservices? Batch runs?
etc.), the license.
* If you have not given your software an explicit license, please note
that only free software can migrate to Labs. Consider putting your stuff
under a free license.
* If you have already migrated your bot or tool to Labs and it is in the
list, please say so in the last column "status". The same if a mentioned
tool is abandoned and shall not move.
Thanks for your help!
Cheers, Silke
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Systemadministratorin und Projektassistenz Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
We've been receiving messages from this domain at unblock(a)toolserver.org
and they appear to be related to this:
<http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/l44r1/i_just_got_this_email_at_work_i_…>.
Viral advertising for some film. In reality, it's a message with a
crapload of images attached serving no purpose for us.
Can we just block this whole domain from sending mail to toolserver
accounts? It's a nuisance, and the messages are quite large.
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Welcome, Coren (Marc-Andre Pelletier); I look forward to working with
you to help build Tools Labs and help those who'd like to move bots and
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You can look at his TODO list here:
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Subject: [Engineering] Engineering Announcement: Marc-Andre Pelletier
joins TechOps
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:25:09 -0800
From: Ct Woo <ctwoo(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development
and Operations Engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
All,
I am pleased to announce Marc-Andre will be joining us as aTechnical
Operations Engineer (contractor) starting this February 25, 2013. His
primary focus will be to build up the Wikimedia Labs infrastructure and to
assist the community developers to migrate their tools to that
infrastructure, especially those residing on the Toolserver today.
Marc-Andre is an active wikipedian and he is better known as 'Coren' on
English Wikipedia and has been a volunteer editor since 2006 where he has
served as administrator and arbitrator. He also always kept himself
involved with the technical and procedural aspects of automated editing
(so-called bots), having written and operated a copyright-violation
detection bot for several years.
Marc has been a Unix system administrator and occasional computer science
instructor for 20+ years, in fields ranging from telecommunication to game
development. He studied IT at École de Technologie Supérieure (Canada).
Please join me to welcome him and you can find him on IRC (freenode.net)
using the nick 'Coren'.
Thanks.
CT Woo