Toolserver-l March 2007

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Possible changes regarding *all* Wikimedia IRC bots
by Sean Whitton (Xyrael) 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Hey all. Please excuse the fact that this is posted to multiple mailing lists, but I need to ensure that it reaches all concerned. I'm writing as an IRC Group Contact to call all operators of Wikimedia IRC bots to state their activity and use of their bot to me, using a private e-mail, as I'm doing a bit of reorganisation. I have a few issues to address and would like to try and smooth out the rather convoluted situation we have right now. As many will know, I'm a freenode staffer and as such am in a position to notice the lack of continuity present. In particular many of our bots use flood-protection exemption due to the nature of their much-data roles. Unfortunately, with the death of freenode's founder Rob Levin, there is no longer a very organised record of which bots are doing what and where, and I would really like to establish a better one. By doing this I aim to make things a lot easier for bot operators to get the information/permissions they need. Please note that this has nothing to do with MediaWiki bot flags or community permission, which is still very important for bots that edit as well as speak on IRC. I would like to make two major changes to what we do at the moment. Firstly, I would like to cloak all active bots with wikimedia/bot/nick (wikimedia can be replaced by wikipedia, wikisource etc.) and add them to a list I'll keep on meta (not set up yet, will see how this goes first!). At the moment, there are a good few usercloak/bot/botnick (e.g. I have wikimedia/xyrael/bot/winesteward) and a few wikimedia/bot/botnicks around. I would like to make the distinction that usercloak/bot/botnick is a non-Wikimedia bot and that the project/bot/botnick is for those that are run specifically for one of our projects. Secondly, I would like to use one bot o:line for flood protection. Currently, there are a good few floating about, and I'm not sure who is actually using them actively - a cull of bots no longer in use would be good from freenode's perspective. There are obvious trust issues with this in that one password leak would be a lot of trouble compared with bot operators guarding their own personal passwords, but I think it's worth it because of the two stage process of changing the o:lines: me as group contact and then as staff, then actually getting hold of someone to make the change. I realise that I've rambled a bit here, and so I'll summarise my requests: * That all operators of IRC bots contact me via e-mail telling me their bot nickname, what is does and what it is cloaked with, as well as a note if it uses an o:line. I can then recloak them with your assistance. This also has the purpose of weeding out inactive bots (no action being taken yet, though). * That anyone who knows an operator who doesn't read any of the lists forwards this to them and asks them to complete my request, perhaps translating if necessary. * That any ideas/complaints/ways-that-are-significantly-better-than-this are expressed in this mailing list conversation! Thank you, [[m:User:Xyrael]] Friendly IRC group contact -- —Sean Whitton (Xyrael/xyr) sean(a)silentflame.com http://xyrael.net/

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rules updated
by River Tarnell 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

rules for toolserver users have been updated: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/Rules - river.

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BitTorrent tracker for toolserver users
by River Tarnell 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

hello, a BitTorrent tracker is now available for all users. to add a new torrent to the tracker, run: hemlock% /usr/local/bin/add_torrent <hash_of_torrent> the announce URL for the tracker is: http://tstracker.wikimedia.org:9898/announce obviously, this tracker should only be used for files which have some relevance to Wikimedia. - river.

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New requests
by Andre Engels 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

When will the new requests at [[m:Toolserver/New accounts]] be looked at? It seems DaB last was present at February 18. Since then, 8 new requests (among which one by yours truly, which is why I ask) have been submitted. -- Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels

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Raising the connection limit for tangotango
by Larry Pieniazek 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi all! Apologies if this was already asked, but TangoTango wrote a very nifty search tool, mayflower. http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/search.php?q=mayflower&t=n See it here on the test wiki: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search (you may need to be logged in) It's really great, and it got added to commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search But unfortunately it's bumping into the 15 connection limit already. --- Advanced search Please wait, searching for "mayflower"... Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [function.mysqli-mysqli]: (42000/1226): User 'tangotango' has exceeded the 'max_user_connections' resource (current value: 15) in /home/tangotango/public_html/mayflower/search.php on line 258 Warning: mysqli::query() [function.mysqli-query]: Couldn't fetch mysqli in /home/tangotango/public_html/mayflower/search.php on line 287 Warning: main() [function.main]: Couldn't fetch mysqli in /home/tangotango/public_html/mayflower/search.php on line 469 Error: Warning: mysqli::close() [function.mysqli-close]: Couldn't fetch mysqli in /home/tangotango/public_html/mayflower/search.php on line 472 ---- Please consider raising that limit, a lot. Not sure how much but a lot because commons searches are quite frequent. Thanks! Larry Pieniazek Work mail: lpieniaz at us.ibm.com Hobby mail: lar at miltontrainworks.com > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:25:47 +0100 > From: "DaB." <wp(a)daniel.baur4.info> > Subject: [Toolserver-l] New limitation of mysql-connections > To: Toolserver-ML <toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <1171754747.3681.2.camel(a)DanielX.intern.baur4.info> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello all, > > I created a new limitation of 15 mysql-connections at the > same time by a user (after a user flooded mysql with a few > dutzend connection a few time ago). > > If someone need more connections, please mail me, the limit > can set per user. > > Have fun :). > > Sincerly,

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Re: [Toolserver-l] [Foundation-l] Possible changes regarding *all* Wikimedia IRC bots
by Sean Whitton (Xyrael) 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

For clarification, I refer to freenode bots only, not any of the other IRC-related things we are involved in. Sorry for the confusion :-) On 3/4/07, Christian Thiele <apper(a)apper.de> wrote: > Hello, > > Am 04.03.2007, 18:32 Uhr, schrieb Sean Whitton (Xyrael) > <sean(a)silentflame.com>: > > > * That all operators of IRC bots contact me via e-mail telling me > > their bot nickname, what is does and what it is cloaked with, as well > > as a note if it uses an o:line. I can then recloak them with your > > assistance. This also has the purpose of weeding out inactive bots (no > > action being taken yet, though). > > could you please precise this? You wrote you're a freenode staffer, so you > only mean IRC bots in freenode? I think most people (especially on the > toolserver mailing list) have their bots in irc.wikimedia.org (where > current changes in wikimedia projects are posted). Am I right, that these > are not meant? Or do you also maintain irc.wikimedia.org? > > Sincerely, > Christian Thiele > -- —Sean Whitton (Xyrael/xyr) sean(a)silentflame.com http://xyrael.net/

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Serversplit
by DaB-wp 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hello folks, the wikimedia-server-admins had splited their database-server again. Now there are 3 groups of servers. s1 is en (the old en-group), s2 are dewiki, commons and 17 other wikis, and s3 are the rest (inklusiv frwiki). Because our replag was high as the split was done, we could not change our config at the same time, but have had to wait. Today at 4 o'clock (all time UTC) zedler reached the timestamp, when the split had done and stoped replication (the wikimedia-server-admins changed the masters too (samuel (the old master for non-en) was not the new master of s2 or s3). At evening I noticed this and fix the replication. Mysql replicate s2 at the moment and the replag decrease fast (~55ks in 4h). I planed to use my en-replication-tool for s3-replication, but I found a bug and stop it first (I try to fix it tomorrow) - I'm sorry for this. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-February/029950.html has more infos, which wiki are where. If you have a question, please write a eMail. Sincerly, DaB.

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