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[Cloud-announce] Upcoming: Commons links tables move to dedicated cluster (x4)
by Alexander Vorwerk via Cloud-announce 04 Sep '26

04 Sep '26

Hello, Here is an update on the ongoing work to move the links tables of Commons to a dedicated cluster (x4). On Monday, September 7th, we will switch production reads to the new x4 cluster. At this point, the x4 hosts are just replicas of the s4 hosts, so the data served is identical. On Tuesday, September 8th, we will take the x4 hosts out of that replication and we will switch the writes to x4 as well. From that point on, the affected tables will no longer be written to s4. They will remain present in the wiki replicas, but will no longer receive any updates. A wiki replica for x4 will be set up afterwards; this can't happen earlier, as we do not have enough disk space to run replicas for these tables on both clusters at the same time. The following tables are affected by this move: * linktarget * externallinks * pagelinks * templatelinks * categorylinks * collation * imagelinks * globalimagelinks * iwlinks * existencelinks * langlinks The page and redirect tables will be present in both clusters. Progress is tracked at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T437108 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T437111 Background/rationale: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398709 Thank you, Alexander Vorwerk — IRC: Zabe _______________________________________________ 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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Using puppet for the project
by Marcin Cieslak 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

Hello, Since I have to re-do a lot of setup for the project anyway, I am considering using Puppet to make it easier to maintain in the future. Is running own puppetserver (as described in the docs) the only option or is there something easier? Marcin User:Saper

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Upcoming Language Community Meeting (August 28th, 15:00 UTC) & Newsletter
by Srishti Sethi 28 Aug '26

28 Aug '26

Hello everyone, The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, on Friday, August 28th at 15:00 UTC! If you would 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 for sharing updates on language-related projects, discussing technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborating on solutions. In the upcoming meeting, we’ll hear from Owobusingye <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Owobusingye> about efforts to develop the Runyankore Wikipedia, a language spoken by over 3 million people in southwestern Uganda whose Wikipedia recently graduated from the Incubator. We’ll also hear from DaSupremo <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DaSupremo> about the localization of Wikimedia features for Ghanaian language Wikipedias. Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with 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-aug-2026>. The 11th edition of the Language & Internationalization Newsletter (July 2026) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…> is also now available. This newsletter provides updates from the April–June 2026 quarter, including new feature development, improvements across various language-related projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community Meeting. See you there! Feel free to translate this message into your local language and share it on your village pump or other community channels to help spread the word. Cheers, Srishti & Sadik Srishti Sethi (she / her) Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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[Cloud-announce] Re: Toolforge kubernetes upgrade Wednesday 2026-08-26, 15:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott via Cloud-announce 26 Aug '26

26 Aug '26

Reminder: this upgrade is coming up in about an hour. On 8/17/26 2:12 PM, Andrew Bogott wrote: > Next Wednesday we will up upgrading the Toolforge Kubernetes install > to version 1.33. > > This upgrade should not result in any feature changes or downtime but > there may be brief network resets and pods may be restarted and/or > rescheduled. > > This upgrade is tracked here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T433132 > > -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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[Cloud-announce] Reminder: Toolforge Monthly Meeting – August 25
by Seyram Komla Sapaty via Cloud-announce 25 Aug '26

25 Aug '26

Hello, This is a friendly reminder that the next Toolforge Monthly Meeting is coming up on Tuesday, August 25. The Toolforge monthly meeting is a one-hour engineering-focused meeting to discuss the current state and the future plans of Toolforge, to unblock some decisions or to get everyone on the same page. It's also an opportunity for technical contributors to connect with the Tools Platform / Infrastructure teams and contribute to the ongoing and future work to improve Toolforge. The meeting agenda and joining information are available on the meeting wiki page[0]. The current agenda includes: - Kubernetes upgrade workgroup progress - Push-to-Deploy updates If there are other topics you'd like to discuss, please feel free to add it to the agenda on the wiki before the meeting. We'd be happy to include community-driven discussion topics. Whether you're a long-time Toolforge maintainer or simply interested in the platform, you're welcome to join the discussion. We look forward to seeing you there! [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Admin/Monthly_meeting -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services _______________________________________________ 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] New Toolforge OpenSearch cluster to replace old Elasticsearch cluster
by Taavi Väänänen via Cloud-announce 24 Aug '26

24 Aug '26

Hi all, The Toolforge Elasticsearch cluster is being replaced with a cluster based on OpenSearch v2[0]. If your tool uses the writable Elastic/OpenSearch functionality you will need to manually migrate your tool to the new cluster as described in the rest of this email. (Note that this is different from the "Cloud Elastic" service which provides read-only access to the search indexes of Wikimedia wikis.) The Wikitech page[0] has been updated with the details of the new cluster, which are almost identical to the previous cluster except the hostname and software version used. The same set of credentials will also work on the new cluster. There are, however, some breaking API changes between the old version and the new one, which is why we are not just migrating all indexes for all tools at once. To help migrate data from the old cluster to the new one, we have temporarily added a `toolforge migrate-index` command to the bastion servers to copy over an index and its mappings, aliases and replication settings. The tool takes a space-separated list of indexes to migrate, and will use credentials saved as envvars by default (and prompt you if those are not available). Migration is relatively quick, in my tests an index with about 400k records and 1+1 replication takes about a minute to migrate. The old Elasticsearch cluster will be shut down on 24 August. This work is tracked as T401818.[1] [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/OpenSearch [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401818 -- Taavi Väänänen (he/they) Site Reliability Engineer, Tools Infrastructure Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ 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] [cloud-announce][REMINDER]: Debian Bullseye reaches end of support on August 31, 2026
by Seyram Komla Sapaty via Cloud-announce 19 Aug '26

19 Aug '26

Hello, This is a reminder that Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support (LTS) on August 31, 2026[0] If your Cloud VPS project still has instances running Debian Bullseye, now is the time to migrate them to **Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie**. We have published a migration guide to help with the process.[1] As part of this migration, it may also be worth evaluating whether your workload is a good fit for Toolforge. If feasible, migrating to Toolforge can reduce future maintenance burden, as operating system upgrades are much simpler. Our goal is to complete these migrations before Bullseye reaches end of support. After the upstream LTS deadline, Bullseye instances may become subject to shutdown or cleanup as part of the deprecation process. If you are unable to complete your migration before August 31, or need assistance, please let us know as soon as possible. In addition to replying on this mailing list or contacting the Tools Platform team[2], please file a Phabricator task tagged **Cloud-VPS (Debian Bullseye Deprecation[3])** so we can track your project and work with you on a migration plan. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401804 [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_VPS_instance_operating_syste… [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_VPS#Communication_and_support [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/8107/ Thanks! -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services _______________________________________________ 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] Toolforge kubernetes upgrade Wednesday 2026-08-26, 15:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott via Cloud-announce 17 Aug '26

17 Aug '26

Next Wednesday we will up upgrading the Toolforge Kubernetes install to version 1.33. This upgrade should not result in any feature changes or downtime but there may be brief network resets and pods may be restarted and/or rescheduled. This upgrade is tracked here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T433132 -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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[Cloud-announce] Does your tool read from [wbc_entity_usage] table?
by Danny Benjafield via Cloud-announce 04 Aug '26

04 Aug '26

(If your third-party tool does not read data from [wbc_entity_usage] via Wiki Replicas, please ignore this email) Hello everyone, planning is underway to move the Wikibase [wbc_entity_usage] tables for all wikis to a different “*x1 extension cluster*” to improve database space usage [0]. We expect that few, (if any) third-party tools directly rely on this table — but before making any breaking changes, we want to confirm that. If your tool uses this table, hearing from you will help us understand how many tools are affected and what that usage looks like, so we can plan the migration accordingly. [wbc_entity_usage] tracks which Wikidata entities are used on a given Wiki’s pages, and also powers Wikidata-triggered Recent Changes and Watchlist injections to client Wikis. *// What's affected //* If you operate a tool that reads from the [wbc_entity_usage] table — through Wiki Replicas or directly from SQL, this may affect you. This is especially likely if your query JOINs [wbc_entity_usage] with other MediaWiki tables (e.g. ‘page’, ‘revision’), since cross-cluster JOINs will stop working when the migration is completed. *// What to do //* Please comment on [1] (even a simple “yes, I am affected” is helpful). If you can share more, we'd like to know: - The Tool name and location (e.g. Toolforge, repo link). - If your query JOIN’s [wbc_entity_usage] with other tables, please tell us which. - How often the queries run against [wbc_entity_usage], (e.g. real-time, daily, weekly, manually). Please be aware: - [wbc_entity_usage] will eventually be removed from Wiki Replicas and direct SQL. Existing queries against this table will need to be replaced with a different approach. - During the lengthy transition period, the tables will still operate, so existing queries will continue to function until access is turned off when the migration is complete [2]. - Once the Wiki Replicas access ends, tool users should switch over to using the MediaWiki API [3] or Recent Changes API [4] to read changes instead. Queries on the table will no longer work *after* the migration is completed, so they will need to be adjusted. *// Links //* [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424133 [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424440 [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bwbentityusage [4] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:RecentChanges Please report if your tool is affected to the relevant Phabricator ticket: [1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430289 Thank you, Danny (on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects> team) -- *Danny Benjafield* Community Communications Manager Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0 https://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now. <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Cloud-announce] Re: NFS scratch volume maintenance on Monday 2027-08-03 (Urlaub / On vacation)
by Tobias Bülte 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Danke für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin bin derzeit im Urlaub. Ab dem 07.04. wieder erreichbar. Ihre Email wird nicht weitergeleitet. In dringenden Fällen schreiben Sie meinen Kollegen oi(a)hbz-nrw.de Beste Grüße Tobias Bülte - hbz ---- Thank you very much for your email! I am currently on vacation and will be available again from 22.04. Your email will not be forwarded for confidentiality reasons. In urgent cases, please contact my colleagues at oi(a)hbz-nrw.de Best regards Tobias Bülte - hbz

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