After nearly a decade of mishap and delay, we have updated the WMCS
terms of use. The updated document for toolforge and cloud-vps admins
can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use
and the terms of use for visitors to WMCS sites can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_End_User_Terms_…
There is one significant change in these terms: Cloud-vps projects which
collect personal data will need to include an explicit privacy policy
for their projects. This is section 7.3. For other WMCS users and admins
these documents do not represent any significant change in policy, but
do clarify and finalize many things that were poorly-worded in the
previous TOU, or policies that we have enforced informally without
officially stating.
Please feel free to reach out to WMCS staff if you find any part of
these documents concerning or disruptive to your work on our platforms.
-Andrew
Just now the toolsdb database server ran out of memory and died[0] -- it
took us a few minutes to get things rolling again but all service should
be restored.
The service first went down Aug 15 23:09:12; RO only service was
restored about 45 minutes later and RW service shortly after that.
Probably no action is needed on the part of tool maintainers, but if
your tools are upset this is a good thing to suspect. Sorry for the
downtime!
-Andrew + the WMCS team
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344298
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320934 was opened last year to note that
sparql was no longer building on more recent versions of notebook. A patch
submitted to the upstream to fix the issue has not been noted or merged.
Indeed the upstream has not been updated since 2020.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121478 meanwhile has been unblocked
upstream with a new version of notebook. That sparql integration with
jupyterlab appears to lack support it will be removed to unblock notebook
upgrades.
Sparql will be removed as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338981
which has a slightly fuzzy deployment date, but not until at least
2023-08-14
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*Vivian Rook (They/Them)*
Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
The Foundation's Machine Learning team has announced [0] that users of
ORES models should begin migrating their code to the newer Lift Wing
system. They have prepared a page on Wikitech to help bot and tool
maintainers understand what steps will be needed and where they can go
to ask for help with the process [1].
[0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…
[1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES
Bryan
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Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808