Toolserver-l November 2008

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Cron
by Nikola Smolenski 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I have noticed that I have no crontab on login.toolserver.org but that my crontab on toolserver.org continues to work (and affects files that I see on login.toolserver.org). Is there something I should do?

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1200 MB every night
by emijrp 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hi; I run a script that downloads 1200 MB every night (from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/) to generate some stats (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ranking_de_visitas). Any problem with that bandwidth usage? 30GB by month. Thanks, regards

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new web server testing (redux)
by River Tarnell 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, in one week i plan to enable the new web server on hemlock. this will hopefully solve the problems people are seeing with long-running scripts. until then, people should test their sites with the new server. you can do this by using 'toolserver.org:81' in the URL, instead of 'toolserver.org'. for example, if your tool is at: http://toolserver.org/~johnsmith/mytool.php you would use: http://toolserver.org:81/~johnsmith/mytool.php if everything works correctly, you do not need to do anything. if you have a problem, and cannot solve it yourself, please let me know and i'll investigate. if you use rewrite rules, you need to convert them to the new server's rewrite format. this page explains how to do that: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/ZWS please do not distribute the toolserver.org:81 URLs (except for testing), as they will stop working in a week. if you are having problems with the current web server, and would like to be moved to the new one before a week, let me know. people who requested this during the last test have been moved to the new server already. that is: kalan agony luxo pathoschild the final change to the new web server, assuming there are no major problems, will be Tuesday, 2nd December. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFJLCIwIXd7fCuc5vIRAkNMAJ0ZDE/5yb4HPyQElbQdEPiCSbKpbwCeK0sa bzTPCF5R7krqlYhCHkywuY4= =w8kw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SQL queries
by Ja Ga 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

I was investigating a better version of Special:Lonelypages (ignore disambig pages, exclude the already tagged, identify 1- and 2- link orphans as well as no-link orphans, etc.) but when I run the original Lonelypages SQL query on nightshade against enwiki_p it times out after 10 minutes. SELECT page_namespace, page_title FROM page LEFT JOIN pagelinks ON page_namespace=pl_namespace AND page_title=pl_title WHERE pl_namespace IS NULL AND page_namespace=".NS_MAIN." AND page_is_redirect=0; I know pagelinks is HUGE (like 265,000,000+ entries), but I thought it would work since it's what we use for Lonelypages. I'm looking at LIMIT queries, etc., but before I go further, is this just too much to ask of nightshade? - Jason

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upcoming account confirmation
by Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hello Admins. According to the login info line after the MOTD on nightshade, the next unconfirmed account expiry occurs on 2008-12-23. Due to holiday travelling, I will be offline around that time, and I imagine I won't be the only one in the predicament with spotty Internet access. Could we move the procedure a month later instead?

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question about performance/getting webpage content
by seth 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi! I wrote a perl script, which works on some HTML content of some wikipedia-webpages. Some of those pages are >300kB and perls LWP-mirror hangs up. Two questions: 1. Is there a better/faster way to get the HTML content of e.g. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist/Log than my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->mirror($url, $filename); ? 2. If I've questions about such stuff, am I right here? Otherwise, sorry for bothering you. :-) Cheers seth

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Simple Geohack-like tool for CAS numbers
by Guillaume Paumier 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hello, CAS numbers are used to identify chemical compounds [1]. Someone on fr.wp has created a template for CAS numbers; it uses the CAS number as a parameter and outputs some links to several resources/databases [2]. The thing is, although these links might be useful, the articles aren't really the good place for them. I was wondering if someone from this list would be willing to write a simple tool on the toolserver à la GeoHack. The tool would do exactly what the template is doing right now, i.e. it would check the validity of the input and would output a few links [3]. The template would then be modified to simply link to this tool. This should be pretty easy (I think) and it would avoid displaying all these links inside the articles. Anyone interested? Many thanks in advance. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_registry_number [2] example: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide ; look at "N° CAS" in the infobox and click on the [+] symbol to expand the template. [3] current code of the template : http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:CAS&action=edit -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]]

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Re: [Toolserver-l] LDAP Password
by Tim Alder 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

Hello river, this with phpmyadmin sounds good, but where can I find my LDAP password? I know only from Mysql-password and my ssh-key. Greetings Kolossos toolserver-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org schrieb: > Send Toolserver-l mailing list submissions to > toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > toolserver-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > toolserver-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Toolserver-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. phpMyAdmin is now accessible without SSH tunnels (River Tarnell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:02:36 +0000 > From: River Tarnell <river(a)loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk> > Subject: [Toolserver-l] phpMyAdmin is now accessible without SSH > tunnels > To: toolserver-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Cc: toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <20081107220236.GX19914(a)loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi, > > it's now possible to access phpMyAdmin without an SSH tunnel to hemlock. the > new URL is <https://phpmyadmin.toolserver.org>. you will need to authenticate > with your toolserver username and LDAP password (*not* MySQL password) to > access phpMyAdmin, then log in to phpMyAdmin with your MySQL password. > > - river. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iD8DBQFJFLr8IXd7fCuc5vIRAhpFAJ4qqBauFvS0ri16NY8aKHdRKECbKQCbB5Pv > uoue8PEZHFppHaCQidJR/08= > =PH4H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > > > End of Toolserver-l Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1 > ******************************************* > >

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phpMyAdmin is now accessible without SSH tunnels
by River Tarnell 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, it's now possible to access phpMyAdmin without an SSH tunnel to hemlock. the new URL is <https://phpmyadmin.toolserver.org>. you will need to authenticate with your toolserver username and LDAP password (*not* MySQL password) to access phpMyAdmin, then log in to phpMyAdmin with your MySQL password. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFJFLr8IXd7fCuc5vIRAhpFAJ4qqBauFvS0ri16NY8aKHdRKECbKQCbB5Pv uoue8PEZHFppHaCQidJR/08= =PH4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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setpass and dictionary checks
by River Tarnell 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, i understand some people have had problems with the 'dictionary word match' check when setting/changing their LDAP password. i've disabled this check now. it still requires one character from at least three of: upper, lower, digit, punctuation. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFJFdzbIXd7fCuc5vIRApEZAKCDa7aSXw4POVo/z/cuox7hXMdN6QCgnSrx ALGULQppkAm6O7o98WH1sNQ= =Wf1c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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