Cloud May 2023

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[Cloud-announce] Updated WMCS terms of use
by Andrew Bogott 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

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 _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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E-mail alerts for Cloud VPS instances
by Sebastian Berlin 12 Jun '23

12 Jun '23

Recently one of our Cloud VPS servers ran out of disk space. Is this something that you can get alerts for from Grafana or something else (e.g. by e-mail)? I looked around a bit in the Wikitech documentation and found Alertmanager#Grafana alerts <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alertmanager#Grafana_alerts>, but it looks like that's not for users of the Cloud VPS, rather the maintainers. *Sebastian Berlin* Utvecklare/*Developer* Wikimedia Sverige (WMSE) E-post/*E-Mail*: sebastian.berlin(a)wikimedia.se Telefon/*Phone*: (+46) 0707 - 92 03 84

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Code of Conduct Committee -- call for new members
by Martin Urbanec 20 May '23

20 May '23

Hello all, The Code of Conduct Committee is a team of five trusted individuals (plus five auxiliary members) with diverse affiliations responsible for general enforcement of the Code of conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces. Committee members are in charge of processing complaints, discussing with the parties affected, agreeing on resolutions, and following up on their enforcement. For more on their duties and roles, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee. This is a call for community members interested in volunteering for appointment to this committee. Volunteers serving in this role should be experienced Wikimedians or have had experience serving in a similar position before. The current committee is doing the selection and will research and discuss candidates. Six weeks before the beginning of the next Committee term, meaning July 16, 2023, they will publish their candidate slate (a list of candidates) on-wiki. The community can provide feedback on these candidates, via private email to the group choosing the next Committee. The feedback period will be two weeks. The current Committee will then either finalize the slate, or update the candidate slate in response to concerns raised. If the candidate slate changes, there will be another two week feedback period covering the newly proposed members. After the selections are finalized, there will be a training period, after which the new Committee is appointed. The current Committee continues to serve until the feedback, selection, and training process is complete. If you are interested in serving on this committee or like to nominate a candidate, please write an email to techconductcandidates AT wikimedia.org with details of your experience on the projects, your thoughts on the code of conduct and the committee and what you hope to bring to the role and whether you have a preference in being auxiliary or main member of the committee. The committee consists of five main members plus five auxiliary members and they will serve for a year; all applications are appreciated and will be carefully considered. The deadline for applications is *the end of day on May 31 2023*. Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think may be qualified and interested. Best, Martin Urbanec, on behalf of the Code of Conduct Committee

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[Cloud-announce] Switch restart today at 13:00 UTC, no downtime expected
by David Caro 15 May '23

15 May '23

Hi! We are restarting a switch[1] today at 13:00 UTC. We are moving all the affected VMs to different hypervisors, and we expect no downtime, though you might experience the servers being a bit unresponsive when the migration finally moves the VM (a couple seconds). We will reply to this email once it's done. Thanks! [1]https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316544 --- David Caro SRE - Cloud Services Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> PGP Signature: 7180 83A2 AC8B 314F B4CE 1171 4071 C7E1 D262 69C3 "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment." _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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Change in the "desktop page".
by Arturo Vásquez 12 May '23

12 May '23

Hello. I re-send a previous note. NOTE. I looked for a way to communicate with Wikipedia —an encyclopedia that I highly value. I don't know if this will help. For this 1st communication is to request that they reverse the change in the "desktop page" of each query. Before, it was possible to see the same article without further ado than to go to some other language that had something written on the subject of consultation. Now this has been removed. And so, it is very cumbersome to translate and then enter a Wikipedia with another language. I THINK THEY SHOULD KEEP THE PREVIOUS OPTION. Without prejudice to incorporating the current options. THANK YOU. AVF

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[Cloud-announce] PAWS rebuild
by Vivian Rook 06 May '23

06 May '23

PAWS was down and rebuilt. If you had a logged in session you may have to refresh your state by logging out and back in to restart your server. Thank you! -- *Vivian Rook (They/Them)* Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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[Cloud-announce] PAWS to enforce storage limits 2023-05-15
by Vivian Rook 05 May '23

05 May '23

On 2023-05-15 PAWS will begin enforcing storage limits. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327936 For home directories who's capacity goes above 1 gigabyte, the largest files will be removed to bring the total usage below 1 gigabyte. -- *Vivian Rook (They/Them)* Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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