I ran some data crunching on a sample of 4429 photo uploads from
mobile web. In this sample 2821 uploads succeeded and 36% (1608/4429)
of attempted uploads failed. This is very high and unacceptable.
Looking closely 53% of all errors were due to problems with invalid or
'anonymous' tokens. This will occur when the client is unable to get a
token using CORS from Commons due to not being logged in there.
Luckily Chris Steipp and the rest of the platform team have pushed a
change that should significantly reduce this error:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/57662/
CentralAuth related errors (861)
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Anonymous token. 598
Invalid token 263
The next big offender was 'Missing filename' accounting for 22% of all
upload errors. Unfortunately this is ambiguous as it could mean a
variety of things - it simply means that an upload was attempted and
the response didn't report the filename. I've pushed a patch to try to
understand what errors we are running into:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/67545
Other errors (467)
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Missing filename 347
This file did not pass file verification 69
Blank error message given 36
The file you submitted was empty 15
There are various other errors all listed below for your enjoyment.
Some due to bad choices of name, permissions problems and attempts to
upload certain file types we do not accept. The good news is we
probably don't want these uploads to succeed as they hint at vandalism
attempts or uploads by poorly educated users.
The server problems section is worth a look though - although a small
percentage "The modification you tried to make was aborted by an
extension hook 61". These errors are occurring on the following wiki
projects:
* sv.m.wikipedia.org
* de.m.wikipedia.org
* test.m.wikipedia.org
* en.m.wikipedia.org
* ar.m.wikipedia.org
* es.m.wikipedia.org
* ja.m.wikipedia.org
* he.m.wikipedia.org
* fr.m.wikipedia.org
* nl.m.wikipedia.org
Any ideas what may be causing that error?
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Other errors:
Users uploading with bad or unclear filenames (113)
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"titleblacklist-custom-filename" 48
(https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Titleblacklist-custom-filenam…)
"titleblacklist-forbidden-edit" 37
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Titleblacklist-forbidden-edit)
Filename exists 25 (I suspect they used a common filename)
Unknown error: "titleblacklist-custom-double-apostrophe" 3
(Out of interest is there any API to check whether a filename will be accepted?)
Server problems (81):
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The modification you tried to make was aborted by an extension hook 61
Database query error 10
An internal error occurred 9
error: Internal Server Error 1
Permission based errors (69)
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The "autoconfirmed" right is required to edit this page 36
You have been blocked from editing 25
The "protect" right is required to edit this page 7
Unknown error: "globalblocking-ipblocked" 1
(These users should not be seeing the upload button!)
Users uploading with bad file types (17):
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Filetype not permitted: MOV 8
Filetype not permitted: webp 4
Filetype not permitted: mp3 3
Filetype not permitted: xml 1
Filetype not permitted: bmp 1
Capturing this /me zzzzz
02:14 < thedj> btw, in dragons mode, the diff footer is not staying at the bottom when i scroll...
02:18 < thedj> and i see there is now notifications under a 'person' icon. That guy needs a talk bubble, i'm thinking 'account' every time I look at it :D
02:18 < jdlrobson> thedj: the notification number only shows if you have some - i agree i think it should say 0
02:19 < jdlrobson> thedj: yeh the fixed positioning code is really buggy :(
02:19 < thedj> like the new page controls.
02:20 < thedj> the spinner of the watch action, is a bit too low positioned for me.
02:21 < jdlrobson> thedj: yeh it still needs some tweaks
02:21 < jdlrobson> i'm excited by it though :)
02:22 < thedj> contrast of those icons can be a bit stronger in my opinion.
02:25 < jdlrobson> thedj: you should raise these concerns on the design list to make sure they don't get lost!
Re-trying to send this as the message was rejected several times and I
have no idea why.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:53 PM
Subject: Please read: Proposal to consolidate Mobile projects documentation
To: mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
A few weeks ago, Tomasz asked me to investigate the possibility of
consolidating the Mobile projects documentation, currently split
between meta and mediawiki.org.
I've done some inventorizing and planning:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_communications/Mobile_documentatio…
What I'd like to ask you guys now is the following:
* Do you see any reason not to move forward with this plan?
* Could you take a look at the content on meta and delete what's
obsolete (and doesn't need archiving)?
* When would be the best time to do the actual move? I expect the move
to take about a day, and I'd like to choose a time that minimizes
disruption.
Let me know if you have any concerns or questions :)
--
Guillaume Paumier