Cloud September 2019

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[Cloud-announce] DNS errors early 2019-09-09 UTC may have affected jobs and servers
by Bryan Davis 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

The DNS recursor servers which are used from inside Cloud VPS and Toolforge to resolve both internal and external hostnames to IP address were not functional from approximately 2019-09-09T00:51 UTC to 2019-09-09T01:35 UTC. During this time, most (if not all) DNS lookups would have returned a "SERVFAIL" response. The issue appears to be resolved now. We will share more information about what happened and how the problem was corrected when we are sure that doing so will not cause additional issues. Bryan, on behalf of the Cloud VPS admin team -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ 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

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Downloading Wikipedia Articles with Embedded URLs in Cyrillic
by Thomas Stieve 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Hello all, I am trying to download a number of Russian Wikipedia articles in either Firefox or Chrome. These articles have embedded URLs in Cyrillic. The texts of the actual articles in Cyrillic save correctly in text files, but the Cyrillic URLs are saved as gibberish. Does anyone have a solution? Thank you, Tom -- Thomas Stieve Ph.D. Candidate School of Geography and Development University of Arizona

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Downloading Wikipedia Articles with Embedded URLs in Cyrillic
by Thomas Stieve 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hello all, I am trying to download a number of Russian Wikipedia articles in either Firefox or Chrome. These articles have embedded URLs in Cyrillic. The texts of the actual articles in Cyrillic save correctly in text files, but the Cyrillic URLs are saved as gibberish. Does anyone have a solution? It doesn't have to be those two browsers I guess. Thank you, Tom -- Thomas Stieve Ph.D. Candidate School of Geography and Development University of Arizona

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Re: [Cloud] Downloading Wikipedia Articles with Embedded URLs in Cyrillic
by Maximilian Doerr 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

You probably can’t. URLs HAVE to be URL encoded if you expect them to work right. That’s why they come out like that. The browser just prettifies it and/or handles the unencoded form. Modern browsers handle these automatically but other processes may not. Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team English Wikipedia Administrator Global User Renamer > On Sep 3, 2019, at 20:25, Thomas Stieve <tomthirteen(a)email.arizona.edu> wrote: >

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[Cloud-announce] Cloud VPS database maintenance Tuesday 3rd Sept at 13:00 UTC
by Jason Hedden 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

(Corrected the date in the subject line from the previous notification.) Next Tuesday on September 3rd, between 13:00 and 14:00 UTC we'll be performing backend database maintenance on the OpenStack VPS control plane. During this maintenance window the Horizon web dashboard will be unavailable and all VPS requests to create, modify or delete VPS resources like virtual machines and DNS entries will be blocked. Existing VPS virtual machines will remain running and Toolforge users will not be affected by this maintenance. --- Wikimedia Cloud Services _______________________________________________ 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

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