rationalwiki.org was foolish enough to start using the experimental LQT2. So of course the project was abandoned and we're stuck with a pile of content in LQT, and it broke in subtle and awful ways when we upgraded from 1.16 to 1.19.
Symptoms we're seeing:
* The loader gif for the toolbar keeps spinning. (The request actually completes successfully.) * CSS and JS load late. (Page looks awful until then.) * Takes *ages* to load (could be browser, could be server-side) - enough so that people avoid using it.
One thing I notice is it's quite fat on memory - PHP max_memory was 64MB, LQT was regularly running out of it (is happier at 96MB)
Server: MW 1.19.1 tarball, PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.18 (apache2handler), MySQL 5.1.63-0ubuntu0.10.04.1, Ubuntu 10.04 on amd64 Linode. Default skin is Vector.
I realise that LQT2 is unmaintained, LQT3 isn't finished either and basically we get to keep both pieces. But has anyone beaten LQT2 into usable condition on 1.19?
Failing that, is there any tool to convert LQT2 discussions into a format that can be parsed by something that's maintained?
- d.
Update LQT to the latest version from Git master[1][2].
That should make it work again (be sure to make backups first, and run update.php if needed).
While at it, check other extensions you have installed and make sure you have the 1.19 version of the extension installed (and not the 1.16 versions still).
If you're still facing issues you may want to consider updating MediaWiki to 1.20beta[3]. Then it should work for sure as that is what Wikipedia is running on and several Wikipedia sites have LiquidThreads installed (without the issues you describe).
-- Krinkle
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/LiquidThreads.g... [3] Branch "REL1_20" of mediawiki/core.git * Command line git: git clone -b REL1_20 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git * Snapshot (tarball): https://toolserver.org/~krinkle/mwSnapshots/#!/mediawiki-core/REL1_20
On Oct 14, 2012, at 12:00 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
rationalwiki.org was foolish enough to start using the experimental LQT2. So of course the project was abandoned and we're stuck with a pile of content in LQT, and it broke in subtle and awful ways when we upgraded from 1.16 to 1.19.
Symptoms we're seeing:
- The loader gif for the toolbar keeps spinning. (The request actually
completes successfully.)
- CSS and JS load late. (Page looks awful until then.)
- Takes *ages* to load (could be browser, could be server-side) -
enough so that people avoid using it.
One thing I notice is it's quite fat on memory - PHP max_memory was 64MB, LQT was regularly running out of it (is happier at 96MB)
Server: MW 1.19.1 tarball, PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.18 (apache2handler), MySQL 5.1.63-0ubuntu0.10.04.1, Ubuntu 10.04 on amd64 Linode. Default skin is Vector.
I realise that LQT2 is unmaintained, LQT3 isn't finished either and basically we get to keep both pieces. But has anyone beaten LQT2 into usable condition on 1.19?
Failing that, is there any tool to convert LQT2 discussions into a format that can be parsed by something that's maintained?
- d.
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On 13 October 2012 23:50, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Update LQT to the latest version from Git master[1][2]. That should make it work again (be sure to make backups first, and run update.php if needed). [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/LiquidThreads.g...
Is that LQT2 or LQT3? (Does it matter?)
I am now told our LQT had some local custom patches, which I'm hoping haven't been completely lost ... RW has a pile of local extensions and oddities (that I'm slowly tracking down and normalising).
While at it, check other extensions you have installed and make sure you have the 1.19 version of the extension installed (and not the 1.16 versions still).
Oh yeah, definitely need to do that!
If you're still facing issues you may want to consider updating MediaWiki to 1.20beta[3]. Then it should work for sure as that is what Wikipedia is running on and several Wikipedia sites have LiquidThreads installed (without the issues you describe).
Which LQT are they running? (Which sites?)
- d.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:17 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 October 2012 23:50, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Update LQT to the latest version from Git master[1][2]. That should make it work again (be sure to make backups first, and run
update.php if needed).
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads [2]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/LiquidThreads.g...
Is that LQT2 or LQT3? (Does it matter?)
If you're still facing issues you may want to consider updating
MediaWiki to 1.20beta[3]. Then it should work for sure as that is what Wikipedia is running on and several Wikipedia sites have LiquidThreads installed (without the issues you describe).
Which LQT are they running? (Which sites?)
LQT3 is in development but from what I hear it is nowhere near production ready yet. As a good habit we always keep the 'master' branch stable, and develop major rewrites in development branches, which are merged into master once they are stable and have a migration path.
So the 'master' branch of the LQT repository is "v2+", which is what is running on the Wikimedia wikis.
-- Krinkle
2012/10/14 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Which LQT are they running? (Which sites?)
For example mediawiki.org and translatewiki.net.
-- Matma Rex
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