On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:46:51 +0000, Andrew Gray wrote:
> * The three-column system will look strangely constrained for pages
> with very short (<<1 screen height) infoboxes or very few headings.
>
> * It's not clear what would happen to our usual mass of footer
> navboxes, most of which assume full-width screens. Perhaps they could
> be migrated to the side columns?
That's the trouble with "redesigns" that are presented as static
image files; you can't tell how the proposed design would adapt to
variable content, or for that matter to variable screen sizes.
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:03:47 +0800
From: Simon Shek <simon.shek(a)wikimedia.hk>
Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi all,
Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong are being accept.
The application window is one month (through 22 February).
Wikimania 2013 scholarship is an award given to an individual to enable
them to attend Wikimania in Hong Kong from 7-11 August, 2013.
Both types of scholarships will be available this year. Partial
scholarships will cover travel expenses to Wikimania, capped at 50% of the
estimated air fare from your nearest international airport according to
[[wm2013:Getting to Hong Kong]]. Full scholarships will cover round-trip
travel, dorms accommodations as arranged by the Wikimania Team, and
registration for Wikimania 2013.
Applicants will be rated on the following four dimensions:
1. Activity within Wikimedia (on-wiki and off-wiki) - 50%
2. Activity outside of Wikimedia and other free knowledge/software projects
- 15%
3. Interest in Wikimania and the Wikimedia movement - 25%
4. Fluency of English language - 10%
To learn more about Wikimania 2013 scholarships, please visit
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
To apply for a scholarship, you can fill out the application form here:
https://scholarship.wikimedia.hk
If you have any question, email us at wikimania-shcolarship(a)wikimedia.org .
Good luck!
Simon Shek
Community coordinator - Wikimania 2013 / Wikimedia Hong Kong
wikimedia.hk
[Apologies for cross-posting; this concerns all Wikimedia projects]
Posted today on the Wikimedia Tech Blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-…
Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia
Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical
operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended
to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia
sites, including Wikipedia.
Engineering teams have been preparing for the migration to minimize
inconvenience to our users, but major service disruption is still expected
during the transition. Our sites will be in read-only mode for some time,
and may be intermittently inaccessible. Users are advised to be patient
during those interruptions, and share
information<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_maintenance_notice>in
case of continued outage or loss of functionality.
The current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and
24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other
timezones<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikimedia+data+cen…>on
timeanddate.com).
Wikimedia sites have been hosted in our main data center in Tampa, Florida,
since 2004; before that, the couple of servers powering Wikipedia were in
San Diego, California. Ashburn is the third and newest primary data center
to host Wikimedia sites.
A major reason for choosing Tampa, Florida as the location of the primary
data center in 2004 was its proximity to founder Jimmy Wales’ home, at a
time when he was much more involved in the technical operations of the
site. In 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Technical Operations team started
to look<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/07/wmf-needs-additional-datacenter-space/>for
other locations with better network connectivity and more clement
weather. Located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Ashburn offers
faster and more reliable connectivity than Tampa, and usually fewer
hurricanes.
The Operations team started to plan and prepare for the Virginia data
center in Summer 2010. The actual build-out and racking of servers at the
colocation facility started in February 2011, and was followed by a long
period of hardware, system and software configuration. Traffic started to
be served to users from the Ashburn data center in November 2011, in the
form of CSS and JavaScript assets (served from “bits.wikimedia.org“).
We reached a major milestone in February 2012, when caching servers were
set up to handle read-only requests for Wikipedia and Wikimedia content,
which represent most of the traffic to Wikipedia and its sister sites. In
April 2012, the Ashburn data center also started to serve media files (from
“upload.wikimedia.org“).
Cacheable requests represent about 90 percent of our traffic, leaving 10
percent that requires interaction with our web (Apache) and database
(MySQL) servers, which are still being hosted in Tampa. Until now, every
edit made to a Wikipedia page has been handled by the servers in Tampa.
This dependency on our Tampa data center was responsible for the site
outage in August
2012<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/06/wikimedia-site-outage-6-august-2012/>,
when a fiber cut severed the connection between our two locations.
Starting next week, the new servers in Ashburn will take on that role as
well, and all our sites will be able to function fully without relying on
the servers in Florida. The legacy data center in Tampa will continue to be
maintained, and will serve as a secondary “hot failover” data center:
servers will be in standby mode to take over, should the primary site
experiences an outage. Server configuration and data will be synchronized
between the two locations to ensure a transition as smooth as possible in
case of technical difficulties in Ashburn.
Besides just installing newer hardware, setting up the data center in
Ashburn has also been an opportunity for architecture overhauls, like
incremental improvements of the text storage
system<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/18/nobody-notices-when-its-not-broken-ne…>,
and the move to an entirely new media storage
system<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/09/scaling-media-storage-at-wikimedia-wi…>to
keep up with the growth of the content generated and curated by our
contributors.
Wikimedia’s technical infrastructure aims to be as open and collaborative
as the sites it powers. Most of the configuration of our
servers<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/19/ever-wondered-how-the-wikimedia-serve…>is
publicly accessible, and the Wikimedia
Labs <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/16/introduction-to-wikimedia-labs/>initiative
allows contributors to test and submit improvements to the
sites’ configuration files.
The Wikimedia Foundation currently operates a total of about 885 servers,
and serves about 20 billion page views a month, on a non-profit budget that
relies almost entirely on donations from readers.
--
Guillaume Paumier
I'm attempting my first MediaWiki (1.17) install on MacOS X using Macports
for PHP, MySQL and Apache.
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP
My intent is to use a wiki documenting personal projects, and placed it in
~/Sites/mediawiki. My LocalSettings.php file contains the definition below.
$wgScriptPath = "/~bpabbott/mediawiki";
The absolute path is /Users/bpabbott/Sites/mediawiki
Everything appeared to be ok, until I tried to enable LaTeX to be used to
render equations. I made the changes below to my LocalSettings.php.
$wgEnableUploads = true;
## Upload paths. May want other Directories for additional wikis
$wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images";
$wgUploadDirectory = "$wgScriptPath/images";
## If you have the appropriate support software installed
## you can enable inline LaTeX equations:
$wgUseTeX = true;
## Setup the Math directories
$wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math";
$wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math";
$wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp";
To help with debugging, I also did the unwise thing below.
mkdir ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/math
mkdir ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/tmp
$ chmod 777 ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/math
$ chmod 777 ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/tmp
Even with no security, when I attempt to include an equation on a page, I
encounter the error below (while in preview)
WARNING: wfMkdirParents: failed to mkdir "/~bpabbott/mediawiki/images/tmp"
modes 511 in /Users/bpabbott/Sites/mediawiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on
line 2324.
The wfMakeParents function in my GlobalFunctions.php, is below.
2292 /**
2293 * Make directory, and make all parent directories if they don't exist
2294 *
2295 * @param $dir String: full path to directory to create
2296 * @param $mode Integer: chmod value to use, default is
$wgDirectoryMode
2297 * @param $caller String: optional caller param for debugging.
2298 * @return bool
2299 */
2300 function wfMkdirParents( $dir, $mode = null, $caller = null ) {
2301 global $wgDirectoryMode;
2302
2303 if ( !is_null( $caller ) ) {
2304 wfDebug( "$caller: called wfMkdirParents($dir)" );
2305 }
2306
2307 if( strval( $dir ) === || file_exists( $dir ) ) {
2308 return true;
2309 }
2310
2311 $dir = str_replace( array( '\\', '/' ), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $dir );
2312
2313 if ( is_null( $mode ) ) {
2314 $mode = $wgDirectoryMode;
2315 }
2316
2317 // Turn off the normal warning, we're doing our own below
2318 wfSuppressWarnings();
2319 $ok = mkdir( $dir, $mode, true ); // PHP5 <3
2320 wfRestoreWarnings();
2321
2322 if( !$ok ) {
2323 // PHP doesn't report the path in its warning message, so add our
own to aid in diagnosis.
2324 trigger_error( __FUNCTION__ . ": failed to mkdir \"$dir\" mode
$mode", E_USER_WARNING );
2325 }
2326 return $ok;
2327 }
It appears that PHP is not able to make sense of "/~bpabbott" ... which
Mediawiki interprets as "/Users/bpabbott/Sites" (?) ... I tried using an
absolute path for $wgScriptPath, but that breaks the wiki.
Any ideas?
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Sent from the English Wikipedia mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
So I dived in with the editorial axe to fix up the horrible
[[OpenOffice]]. It's almost not awful now, so that's nice.
Like many such articles, it has a couple of hundred references. A lot
of these are bare URLs (mostly because I didn't fill out the entire
{{cite}} template) and there may or may not be duplicates.
Now, we have computers to handle this sort of thing. Is there a list
of useful tools for cleaning up references other than by hand?
- d.