Hello everyone,
The next language community meeting is scheduled for a few weeks from
now—on November 29th at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000>). If you're interested in
joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…
>.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity
Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language
keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support
track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki
community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a
new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish
interpretation.
Additionally, we wanted to highlight that the fifth edition of the Language
& Internationalization newsletter (October 2024) is available here: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>.
This newsletter provides updates from the July–September 2024 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: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…
>.
Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting!
Cheers,
Srishti & Oscar
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Next Monday, November 25th, at around 13:00 UTC, ToolsDB will be
upgraded from MariaDB v10.4.29 to MariaDB v10.6.19. [0]
I have already created a new host "tools-db-4" that is running the new
version, and is replicating from the current primary. On Monday, I
will fail over the current primary to the new host. [1]
All connections will be dropped and the DNS will be updated to point
to the new host. Tools should automatically reconnect to the new host.
No downtime is expected but there will be a few minutes of read-only
time.
For most tools, the upgrade should be painless. However, you might
want to check the official docs listing incompatible changes
introduced in version 10.5 [2] and 10.6. [3]
If you find any issues, please let us know in the #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352206
[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Admin/ToolsDB#Failing_…
[2] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading-from-mariadb-10-4-to-mariadb-10-5/
[3] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading-from-mariadb-10-5-to-mariadb-10-6/
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Wikimedia Foundation
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On Friday I will delete the following VMs. All are running the
long-deprecated Debian Buster OS and have been shut down for several
months without user response or complaint.
Please respond directly to me if you need any of the above to be
preserved in some form. Context can be found at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331738.
centralnotice-staging:
cn-staging-3.centralnotice-staging.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
commons-corruption-checker:
main.commons-corruption-checker.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
deployment-prep:
deployment-docker-proton01.deployment-prep.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
deployment-echostore02.deployment-prep.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
deployment-maps-master01.deployment-prep.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
deployment-poolcounter06.deployment-prep.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
deployment-restbase04.deployment-prep.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
etytree:
etytree-a.etytree.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
mediawiki-vagrant:
mwv-builder-03.mediawiki-vagrant.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
schematreerecommender:
recommender.schematreerecommender.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
stress-tester.schematreerecommender.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
wikicommunityhealth:
backend.wikicommunityhealth.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
frontend.wikicommunityhealth.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
wikispore:
wikispore-prod.wikispore.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
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If you are using wiki replicas to query the "wikidatawiki" database
(section s8), please be aware that we are expecting replication lag to
grow up to 10 days, because of some ongoing maintenance work [0].
Only section s8 is affected, which contains only the "wikidatawiki"
database. [1] Queries against other databases should not see any lag.
This is going to impact tools using wiki replicas, as well as queries
running on Quarry or PAWS.
You can check the current replication lag at https://replag.toolforge.org/
Thanks for your patience while we complete this maintenance work.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367856
[1] https://noc.wikimedia.org/db.php#tabs-s8
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Greetings XML Dump users,
TL;DR: We are pausing the XML Dumps effective from now to correct runtime errors that we suspect are causing bad data dumps. We are working on a fix.
Longer:
Over the past couple months, we have noticed a growing amount of runtime errors coming from the process that generate the XML content Dumps. It has always been the case that this process may have transient issues and may miss some revisions some months, but the current situation has become such a recurring problem that we now suspect data corruption in recent dumps.
We typically start a full dump (i.e. all revisions for all pages) on the 1st of the month for all wikis, and then we start a partial dump (i.e all current revisions for all pages) on the 20th of the month. Most of the October 1 2024 full runs are complete, except the French wiki and Wikidata wiki, which have failed for this month. The last successful copies of the French and Wikidata wikis are from September. All of the partial runs for the 20th of November are complete as well. However, any of these recent dumps may have underlying data quality issues.
In the interest of not dumping potentially bad data, we have decided to pause the XML Dumps, effective for all future dumps from the date of this communication, until we find and fix the root cause of these errors.
We acknowledge that many folks and downstream processes will be impacted and apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you.
We are prioritizing this work, and if interested, you can follow updates at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377594. Feel free to open additional tickets if your use cases are affected, and do please link them to the main ticket. Further, if you have the ability, we welcome data quality analysis of recent dumps that you may have noticed in your use cases.
If your tool does not read user information from Wiki Replicas, feel
free to ignore this email.
Temporary accounts [0] are starting to be rolled out, and since
yesterday they are enabled on a few smaller wikis: Czech Wikiversity,
Igbo Wikipedia, Italian Wikiquote, Swahili Wikipedia, and
Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. [1]
Temporary Accounts modify the ways MediaWiki stores anonymous users in
database tables. If you manage a tool that reads user information for
anonymous users, you should check the page "How should I update my
code?" [2] to find out if you need to make changes to your tool. You
can use the wikis listed above to test that your tool is working
correctly.
If you have questions or if you want to report an issue, you can file
a Phabricator task as a subtask of [3].
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/…
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/…
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378516
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