Cloud May 2025

cloud@lists.wikimedia.org

5 participants
6 discussions

[Cloud-announce] Wiki Replicas: migration of Wikidata termstore tables
by Francesco Negri 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

If you use Wiki Replicas to query wikidata termstore tables (wbt_*), be aware that those tables are not currently getting live updates. The Data Persistence team is working on setting up the new "x3" section in Wiki Replicas hosts,[0] that is expected to take multiple days to complete. In the meantime, you can start using the following new endpoints: - termstore.wikidatawiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud - termstore.wikidatawiki.web.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud Those endpoints are already returning data, but the data returned will not be up-to-date. As soon as the replication of those tables is restarted on Wiki Replicas, those endpoints will start returning live data. For more information, refer to the News page on Wikitech.[1] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390954 [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2025_Wikidata_term_store_database_… -- Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

3 2

[Cloud-announce] Wiki Replicas: upgrading MariaDB to version 10.11
by Francesco Negri 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Starting next month, we are going to upgrade all the Wiki Replicas [0] servers from MariaDB 10.6 to MariaDB 10.11. We don't expect any impact to users, as there are no big breaking changes in the new version. If you are curious, you can check the full list of changes on the MariaDB website. [1] I will send an update before we start the upgrade, you can also follow the upgrade on Phabricator. [2] [0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_Replicas [1] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/changes-improvements-in-mariadb-1011/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394372 -- Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

1 1

[cross-post] Upcoming Language Community Meeting (May 30th, 15:00 UTC), Newsletter, and Namespaces
by Srishti Sethi 28 May '25

28 May '25

*(Cross-posting from Wikimedia-l, Wikitech-l, langdivhub-com)* Hello everyone! We're excited to announce that the next *Language Community Meeting* is happening soon, *May 30th at 15:00 UTC*! If you’d like to join, simply *sign up on the wiki page* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…> . This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our upcoming meeting, we plan to cover results from a recent language onboarding experiment and hear experiences from a Nigerian contributor who contributes to the Obolo wiki, which was part of this experiment. *Got a topic to share?* Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda items to *the document here* <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-may-2025>. Also, we wanted to highlight that the 7th edition of the *Language & Internationalization newsletter (April 2025)* is available here: *Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/April* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Pr…>. This newsletter provides updates from the January–March 2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page: *Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Newsletter:Language_and_I…> . Would you be interested in contributing to the technical workaround language development? There is a newcomer-friendly core namespace-related task waiting for your contribution: *T391725* <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391725>. We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community Meeting, see you there! Cheers, Srishti *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

1 1

Unable to unsubscribe
by Aoyan Sarkar 20 May '25

20 May '25

Good afternoon, I have tried clicking the List information button and signing in to try and unsubscribe from the list. However, every time I sign in, it tells me that I was sent an “activation email” that I never receive, not in junk or in my inbox, and thus I am unable to unsubscribe. Can an alternate method of unsubscribing be provided, especially if I plan on potentially re-subscribing in the future? Thank you.

2 1

[Cloud-announce] cloud-vps OpenStack upgrades Tuesday, 2025-05-20
by Andrew Bogott 19 May '25

19 May '25

I will be upgrading the cloud-vps openstack install on Thursday, beginning around 16:00 UTC. Here's what to expect: - Intermittent Horizon and API downtime (maybe an hour or two total) - Inability to schedule new VMs (also for an hour or two) Toolforge users will be unaffected by this outage. Existing, running services and VMs on cloud-vps should also be unaffected. This is the upgrade to version 2025.1 'epoxy', tracked at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390914 -Andrew + the WMCS team _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

1 1

[Cloud-announce] Partial network outage (resolved)
by Andrew Bogott 07 May '25

07 May '25

tl;dr: a random assortment of security group/firewall rules were briefly broken which caused networking issues for some cloud-vps services. This is now resolved. This outage began at 12:51 PMUTC, was mostly resolved at 13:25 UTC and full resolved at 13:35UTC. Full (still short) story: As part of ongoing efforts to make all of cloud-vps work with IPv6, we just now ran an automated script to expand existing securitygroup rules to ipv6 access. A bug in that script effectively destroyed existing rules rather than updating them, which caused many open doors to unceremoniously slam shut. In order to recover from this as quickly as possible, we restored a backup of the network database from earlier today (04:28 UTC). This restored service but also wiped out any networking changes that might have been made during that time. This means that if you happen to have changed your security groups since then, you will need to repeat your changes. The still-in-progress incident report can be found here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2025-05-07_cloud-vps_security… - Andrew +WMCS staff, Slightly embarassed _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

1 0

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

Cloud May 2025