Maps-l December 2013

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Toolserver: Renew your accounts before January 6th
by Tim Landscheidt 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi, as the migration of OSM from Toolserver to Labs will likely not be finished within the next two weeks :-) (cf. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/58797 and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33980), if you have a Toolserver account, you should renew it by logging into willow.toolserver.org and executing acctrenew. Also, there are some pending bugs regarding maps/OSM in JIRA: - "create an osm template databaseon ptolemy and allow custom databases" (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-675) - "encoding of osm_mapnik database" (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-714) - "Nicer URL for hillshading tiles" (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-867) - "Add column addr:housename to planet_osm database" (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1087) - "please update PostGIS to 1.5.5 on ptolemy" (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1494) - "upgrade pg_dump" (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1578) - "Update VIPS on wolfsbane and ortelius" (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1630) Please comment on JIRA or here whether these issues are still current or have been fixed/obsoleted in the meantime. Thanks in advance, Tim

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Redacted database content
by Marlen Caemmerer 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hello, I was asked by WMF to make the database views on Toolserver fit to their privacy policy they applied at Toollabs. This means some data in the databases should not be displayed any longer. It regards fields in the tables revision, logging, recentchanges, oldimage and filearchive. Table entries that should be hidden will not be displayed by the Toolserver database servers. These entries can be unhidden by the Steward level users of the Wikipedias and are then accessible again. Some fields are not even shown in the default view because queries on these tables then no longer can use indexes which makes the databases and queries run very slow. I put alternative views in place in this case in case you need more fields you'll find slower views with most of the fields (but redacted). Please note that this may change the number of rows and other results of your tools. If you have any issues with your tools because of this change please let me know. Cheers Marlen/nosy

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Fwd: [Labs-l] Labs datacenter migration
by aude 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Bogott <abogott(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:29 PM Subject: [Labs-l] Labs datacenter migration To: "A list for announcements and discussion related to the Wikimedia Labs project." <labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers < wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Almost a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation migrated most of our services from our old data center in Tampa to the new one in Ashburn [1]. In the next couple of months Labs and Tool Labs will be following suit -- we expect to have everything moved to Ashburn by mid-January at the latest. This move will provide some immediate benefits (lower latency with production, quicker database replication) and many long-term benefits (better stability, happier Operations staff). We don't yet have a specific timeline for stages of the migration, but there are a few things you can do now to help us prepare for the change and to bolster your projects against possible disruption. 1) Subscribe to Labs-l, and read it. [2] Labs-l is low-volume, and future migration announcements may not be sent to other lists. 2) Tool Labs users: As long as your tools are properly managed by the grid engine and can survive stops and restarts, the migration will be quite painless. If your tools aren't, or can't... fix them :) 3) Labs project admins: Clean up old projects and instances. If you have instances that are no longer of interest, delete them. If you know of entire projects that are no longer in use, please contact me directly and I'll mop up. 4) Labs instance owners: Make sure that puppet is running properly on your instances. If '$sudo puppetd -tv' produces any red lines, then fix them or contact me for help with fixing. When instances move to the new data center we'll be relying on puppet to update location-specific settings, so instances without puppet may not survive the move. If your instance uses self-hosting puppet (via puppetmaster::self or role::puppet::self) then you will also need to update your local puppet repo. [3] 5) All Labs users: if you have valuable data residing on local instance storage, start backing it up to shared storage in /data/project. You should be doing this anyway -- no instance is safe from catastrophe, ever. 6) If your project or tool generates log files, have a look at purging old log data. The last time we did a data migration there was at least one terabyte-sized logfile that really gummed up the works. Updates about this change will be posted to this list as soon as we know about them. Any potential downtime will be announced well in advance. In the meantime, don't hesitate to ask questions about the above steps on IRC or the mailing list. -Andrew [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites- move-to-primary-data-center-in-ashburn-virginia/ [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Self-hosted_puppetmaster#FAQ _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list Labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l -- @wikimediadc / @wikidata

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Please join the Wikimaps design & developer meeting!
by Susanna Ånäs 01 Dec '13

01 Dec '13

Hi all! There will be 2 overlapping creative communities for planning Wikimaps 1. Wikimaps Designers & Developers (GLAM & map Wikipedians, OpenHistoricalMappers etc) 2. Wikimaps Nordic (Regional collaboration: Wikimedia chapters, wikimedians, mappers and GLAMs from the Nordic countries) This is an invitation to join the international designer & developer community. Wikimaps Nordic will form a project community in the beginning of January. We’ll arrange a video conference with *http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/ <http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/>* Tuesday December 3 at 8:00 PDT - 11:00 EST - 16:00 GMT - 17:00 CET - 18:00 EET - 21:00 IST Sign up in the collaborative Etherpad *http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/wikimaps-online-1 <http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/wikimaps-online-1>* Let's talk freely about what Wikimaps could be. Here are some ideas to get you started. See, comment and discuss them here: *https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EvXZtoV9vihtXZxVhA5ZKTEfmKFVI2btNQUREF-6so0/edit#slide=id.g11cd82f09_034 <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EvXZtoV9vihtXZxVhA5ZKTEfmKFVI2btNQU…>* *Meeting agenda* Introductions 30 min 1. Round for presentations ~1 min per person 2. Brief presentations of Wikimaps projects ~2 min / ~8 projects Discussion 70 min 3. Discuss expectations. Create working groups. Focus on a project or two. 4. What kind of technologies and communication tools we will use Practicalities 20 min 5. Future schedule for the process 6. To-Do before the next meeting See you soon! Susanna Ånäs / Wikimedia Suomi ps. Info about Wikimaps Nordic with links to Wikimaps info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EhKgIUshgUHq3c4NeCDvMTPoRPCXxF-IInwtHHE… I've cross-posted this on maps-l, commons-l, cultural partners in wikimedia and historic at osm -- *Susanna Ånäs *Käyttäjä:Susannaanas Wikimedia Suomi <http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Etusivu> – GLAM <http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM> – tiedotus – yhteistyö blog.wikimedia.fi / @ <https://twitter.com/WMFinland> WMFinland <https://twitter.com/WMFinland> / Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSuomi> / Liity jäseneksi! <http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liity_j%C3%A4seneksi>

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