Hi,
I am running a rendering service for converting wiki articles to
downloadable formates
https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/
I can log into the machine via ssh. But I cannot access the horizon
administration web interface anymore. After some research I found out
that is because of my last name Hünniger which contains the Umlaut ü. It
has been suggested that I create a new account call "Dirk Huenniger" and
transfer the administration rights for the mediawiki2latex project on
horizon to this new account. Is this a good idea? And if so what are the
steps I need to take in order to reach that? Currently I do not really
need to horizon web interface, but the current situation is a thread for
the long term stability of the mediawik2latex web service.
Yours Dirk Hünniger
Hi,
I am running the mediawiki2latex web service for converting wiki
articles to downloadable formats.
https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/
The output files generated aim for high quality printing, and thus
contain high resolution images (300 dpi). This makes the task to create
them computationally expensive. For single articles the effect is
usually acceptable, but for collections of Wikipedia articles as for
example found in the Wikipedia "Book:" namespace, the rendering time of
a single Book is often a few hours. It has been suggested to cache the
created make them available for instant download. I have started to
generate PDF files on an old dual core laptop (two at a time) of all
books in the Wikipedia "Book:" namespace. Currently received more than
1000 PDFs using 100GByte of space on disk after one month of compute
time. Since there are about 6000 such books everything will safely fit
into 1 TByte. I would like to ask for one TByte of space that can be
mounted into the mediawiki2latex VM, so I can make them available from
web service for instant download. What is the administrative process I
need to follow for this request. Alternatively I could also host the
files at home or and external provider, but I doubt that this is
actually an option.
Yours Dirk Hünniger
Have you ever wondered "what Docker containers are actually available
for use on the Toolforge Kubernetes cluster?" Well, there is a tool
now that can help you answer that question --
https://tools.wmflabs.org/docker-registry/
If you are interested in the same question, but for the Docker
containers used in the Wikimedia CI and production environments, there
is a tool for that too! -- https://tools.wmflabs.org/dockerregistry/
(Thanks to Tyler on the Release Engineering team at the Wikimedia
Foundation.)
Bryan
--
Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808
Is this the right place to ask this?
I run the wikidata author-disambiguator -
https://tools.wmflabs.org/author-disambiguator/ - and since a few hours ago
it seems to be constantly freezing. I've restarted it 3 times today
already. It runs ok for a few minutes, but then at some point when I try to
connect it just hangs forever. I've waited up to 30 minutes on a page that
should respond in seconds, and gotten nothing back. This has worked fine up
until today. It's using the php7.2 kubernetes image - did something change
very recently? Or was there some other recent cloud/tools change that could
cause this?
Arthur
Hello everyone,
The first version of the Wikimedia Cloud Services Edits dashboard
(wmcs-edits) is available for use at https://wmcs-edits.wmflabs.org. Using
this dashboard you will able to see three types (tabular, time-series, and
hierarchical) of visualization of the percentage of edits coming to ~870
Wikimedia wikis from Wikimedia Cloud Services
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction>
every month. Here are the top two highlights from November:
- 38.7% edits came to Wikimedia wikis via Wikimedia Cloud Services.
- The top three wikis with a higher percentage of Wikimedia cloud
services edits are Wikidata (83%), Arabic Wikipedia (4.7%), and Wikimedia
Commons (3.5%).
This tool has been set up by the Developer Advocacy team with help from the
Analytics team and their infrastructure for setting up dashboards. We hope
that the WMCS edits dashboard will help us learn a lot about how and where
the Wikimedia Cloud Services infrastructure contributes to Wikimedia
projects, the use of bots and tools by Wikimedia communities, their overall
health, and a lot more.
If you’ve any questions, there is anything unclear, or if you have feedback
to share, please drop a comment on the Phabricator task:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226663. We will take into account all
your feedback in the next iteration of this tool, for which the work will
begin in January!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Fields such as user.user_name, are varbinary. I'm writing this field as part of a json object in python; json.dumps() requires a string, not bytes, so I need to know the encoding. I assume these are all utf-8?
Most of the upgrade is complete; however the upgrade has caused an
unexpected partial network interruption. Work on this issue is ongoing,
I'll send another email when the issue is resolved.
-Andrew
We'll be upgrading the cloud services OpenStack install on Monday,
beginning at 06:00 UTC
The entire upgrade process may take an hour or two. Early on in the
process, Horizon (and associated OpenStack APIs) will be disabled
(probably for 20 to 30 minutes.) There may also be brief network
interruptions during the upgrade.
Toolforge and existing VMs should be largely unaffected apart from
possible network hiccups.
This is the second upgrade since October; we are trying to speed up our
upgrade schedule in order to catch up with the upstream releases. With
luck there will be further such upgrades in the coming months.
- Andrew + the WMCS team
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Reminder: this maintenance is happening today, starting in about 45
minutes.
We'll be upgrading the cloud services OpenStack install on Monday,
beginning at 06:00 UTC
The entire upgrade process may take an hour or two. Early on in the
process, Horizon (and associated OpenStack APIs) will be disabled
(probably for 20 to 30 minutes.) There may also be brief network
interruptions during the upgrade.
Toolforge and existing VMs should be largely unaffected apart from
possible network hiccups.
This is the second upgrade since October; we are trying to speed up our
upgrade schedule in order to catch up with the upstream releases. With
luck there will be further such upgrades in the coming months.
- Andrew + the WMCS team
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list
Cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce