December 2009 - Toolserver-l - lists.wikimedia.org

New hardware ordered
by Daniel Kinzler 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Hi all I'm happy to let you know that new hardware has been ordered by Wikimedia Deutschland and will arrive probably in about two weeks. We will get two new systems: * A more powerful web server, to replace hemlock: Sun Fire X4150, 2x Quad-Core Xeon, 8GB RAM, 2x73GB SAS HDD. The current web server only has two cores. * Another database server, to be used for S1 (english wikipedia), so S1 and S3 no longer have to share a server: Sun Fire X4250, 2x Quad-Core Xeon, 32GB RAM, 16x146GB SAS RAID. This should improve performance and give us some head space for growth. Once the new servers arrive, S3 will be re-imported too, so we will have live data again. Any ideas for names? To stay with the nightshade theme, how about Jurubeba and Erubia? Or perhaps we go the "witches' weed" way, with Datura and Mandrake? Henbane is taken, i think. Amanita sounds nice, too :) A third server has been ordered, which will also be installed in Amsterdam, but will not be part of the toolserver cluster. It's a storage server (X4540, 24TB RAID) that will keep a live backup of all media files. Cheers, Daniel

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Re: [Toolserver-l] Betawiki translations
by Luxo 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

>> hi all >> >> many of our tools uses messages from betawiki because they are >> translated in many languages. >> But this messages must be synchronized and I think it's not very >> economically if every user/tool do that self. Because of that I >> propose >> to create one database for all users which will be sync periodically. > >A database with one table per user? Sounds good. > >> What do you think? Are any other users interested for such a db? > >I would be interested. > >> Greetings, >> Luxo > >Pietrodn >powerpdn(a)gmail.com I thought not one table per user, but rather one table for all messages. On betawiki are a lot messages e.g. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Abusefilter-revert-title/en. So I would make a table something like + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | LANG | MESSAGE | TEXT | + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | en | Abusefilter-revert-title | Revert all changes by filter $1 | + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | de | Abusefilter-revert-title | Alle Änderungen durch Filter $1 rückgängig machen | + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | fr | Abusefilter-revert-title | Révoquer toutes les modifications par le filtre $1 | + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ the messages which will be synced should be one a list which every ts-user can edit, so that it's easy for every user to add the messages he requires. --Luxo

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Issue with Toolserver email forwarding (username@toolserver.org)
by River Tarnell 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Hi, There is currently an open issue that is preventing updates to the Toolserver email configuration from propagating to the mail server. This means that email forwarding for newly created accounts is not working, and changes to your Toolserver email address (using setmail) will not take effect. The issue is somewhat complicated and I will be away most of this week, so this won't be fixed until next week at the earliest. Sorry for the inconvenience. This issue is being tracked in JIRA as MNT-65. - river.

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PHP upgrade
by River Tarnell 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Hi, PHP was upgrade to 5.3.1. At the same time, the PHP PDO MySQL module was enabled. This should have no impact on users (unless you want to use PDO). - river.

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libjpeg was upgraded
by River Tarnell 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Hi, You can ignore this message unless you have C or C++ programs or libraries linked directly against 'libjpeg', the IJG JPEG library. (The vast majority of users will not have any such programs.) libjpeg on the Solaris systems (willow and wolfsbane) has been upgraded from version 6b to version 7. This means the old libjpeg.so.62 no longer exists; it is replaced with the incompatible libjpeg.so.7. You will need to recompile and relink your programs to use the new libjpeg. This doesn't affect programs that use libjpeg indirectly, e.g. via the ImageMagick C/C++ interfaces, since all TS-provided software depending on libjpeg has already been relinked. - river.

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Cluster s1 needs reimport
by DaB. 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Hello all, yesterday we noticed, that our s1-cluster (that's enwp) is corrupt (that means that we don't have all data and/or not in the right way as the master). That means that we will need a re-important soon. Please look at https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-104 to see the process. Sincerly, DaB. P.S: River told me now, that we can perhaps minimize the downtime of s1 this time - we will see. -- wp-blog.de

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MySQL crash on yarrow
by River Tarnell 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

Hi, MySQL on yarrow (s3, s4, s6) crashed and restarted. This is a known problem and has happened before; however, we've now made a configuration change that might prevent it from happening in the future. This issue is being tracked in JIRA as MNT-58. - river.

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Web server (wolfsbane) will be rebooted)
by River Tarnell 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

Hi, The web server wolfsbane will be rebooted later tonight to change a configuration setting. Web tools will be offline for about 10 minutes while this is in progress. This issue is being tracked in JIRA as MNT-90. - river.

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Reminder: move your projects off stable
by River Tarnell 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Hi, As announced two months ago, we are planning to EOL the stable server in favour of multi-maintainer projects on the normal Toolserver. The following projects are still running on the stable server: * geohack * wma * delinker We intend to repurpose the hardware currently used for the stable server to provide redundancy database replication, but this can't happen until all projects have migrated off the stable server. - river.

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Linux/Solaris
by River Tarnell 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Hi, So, currently we have two login servers, one which runs Linux and one which runs Solaris. This greatly complicates system administration (as everything has to be done twice), and confuses users, since things are different between the two login servers, and between the Linux login server and the web server. Since deploying the Solaris login server (willow), we've made quite a few changes to improve the user experience for users coming from Linux, to the point that I think most users would not have a problem using the Solaris servers. With this in mind, it might make sense to dispose of the Linux login server entirely, and convert it to Solaris. But before we consider this, I need to know if there's anything still missing from our Solaris environment which compels users to use the Linux server instead. So: if the Linux login server were to go away tomorrow, what (if anything) would you miss? - river.

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Toolserver wiki (wiki.toolserver.org) will be upgraded
by River Tarnell 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Hi, Later tonight (UTC) I will upgrade the Toolserver wiki to the current MediaWiki trunk version. There will be a brief outage of the wiki while this is done. This issue is being tracked in JIRA as MNT-78. - river.

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Merry Christmas
by emijrp 25 Dec '09

25 Dec '09

Hi people; I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy Toolserver New Year. I hope we will develop many useful tools in the next year (remember small languages and projects like wiktionary ;)). Also, thanks to the Toolserver admins, keep up the good work. Best wishes, emijrp

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Killing of many sql-connections on s1
by DaB. 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hello all, today we run into a deadlock-situation on rosemary (that's the sql-server for s1 (that's primary the english wikipedia)) where many queries seems to block each other (see [MNT-60] for some details). To end this deadlock, I killed all queries, even the *SLOW-OK* ones. So if you had run a query between 12 o'clock and 16'o clock and it was killed, that was me, please restart it if needed. Sincerly, DaB. -- wp-blog.de

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Unscheduled downtime, Wed 16th
by River Tarnell 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

hi, we had an outage of ~5 hours affecting all login servers from 04:15 UTC to around 09:30 UTC. the issue was fixed fairly quickly once noticed, but it took some time for an admin to be contacted. the outage was caused by a misconfiguration on the cluster which prevented switching the NFS service from a failed node to a working one. the misconfiguration has been fixed, so failover should work correctly in the future. (this was our first unscheduled cluster failover, so it hadn't been tested before.) a full description of the outage is available in MNT-56. - river.

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cron stopped working
by Osama KM 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hello, cron stopped working yesterday, with no error messages being sent to my email. Is that a known issue? What about other users cron? Thank you! -- Osama Khalid Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions. <http://windows7sins.org>

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ja, fr and ru moved to new s6 cluster.
by Daniel Kinzler 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hello all The Foundation moved three wikis, the ja, fr and ru Wikipedia, to their own cluster, s6. We have created sql-s6 as an alias for yarrow and updated server field for these wikis in the toolserver.wiki table accordingly (it will until tomorrow for this change to propagate to all server). The databases remain in the same place on the toolserver, that is, yarrow is handling both s3 and s6 now. This will remain the case for the forseeable future. If you have any per-server configuration, you need to account for the new location, sql-s6, now, since toolserver.wiki refers to that. Especially, if you have been using frwiki_p to estimate the replag for s3, you need to change this. frwiki_p can be used to estimate the replag for s6 now, for s3, please use eswiki_p. If you have any problems with this change, or any questions, please let us know. -- daniel

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Re: [Toolserver-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-announce] Account-Extending December
by Larry Pieniazek 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

The proper topic in JIRA I think is Toolserver I put my request in "account approval" and nothing happened until DaB moved it and then answered it by renewing me. You may want to move it :) To everyone else, you may want to let people know the proper topic in JIRA to use. :) Larry Pieniazek Hobby mail: Lar at Miltontrainworks dot com > -----Original Message----- > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 23:15:04 +0200 > From: Laszlo Kozma <lkozma(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-announce] > Account-Extending December > To: fahadsadah(a)gmail.com, toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <bc5c5b2f0912051315j6ec7361dh5567d4fde7c8a615(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Thanks, > I have submitted an issue. > > The closest topic seemed to be the "account approval" / "new > accounts", although this is not a new account but one I had > since july. > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Fahad Sadah > <fahadsadah(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > > Please file a request in JIRA > > Fahad Sadah > > > > > > 2009/12/5 Laszlo Kozma <lkozma(a)gmail.com> > >> > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >> From: Laszlo Kozma <lkozma(a)gmail.com> > >> Date: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM > >> Subject: Re: [Toolserver-announce] [Toolserver-l] > Account-Extending > >> December > >> To: "DaB." <WP(a)daniel.baur4.info> > >> > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have an account at toolserver.org on which I run wikipediavision > >> which is streamed live on the wikimedia.de server. I was not aware > >> that I needed to send an email to extend the account and I noticed > >> now that the account stopped working and consequently > wikipediavision > >> has stopped updating. > >> > >> Could you please update my account or let me know what I > should do in > >> order to have it extended ? > >> > >> My account name is: lkozma > >> > >> Sorry for bothering, as I was traveling, I was late > reading all the > >> announcements. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Laszlo Kozma > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:42 PM, DaB. <WP(a)daniel.baur4.info> wrote: > >> > Hello all, > >> > > >> > I got several eMails from you (and 1 spam already). Below is the > >> > list of accounts I will extend tonight, so if you ARE on > this list, > >> > everything should be fine for you. If you are NOT on this list, > >> > then you didn't send me an eMail or I didn't get it - please > >> > (re)send it. > >> > > >> > For the people which joined us before 15. November and > who did not > >> > read our mailinglists before today, please read the > eMail at [1] - > >> > it tells you what to do. > >> > > >> > BTW: If you account was created after 15. November, your > account is > >> > already extended (if you are unsure, just login, the > login-screen > >> > tells you when your account will expire). > >> > > >> > I will send an update next Sunday. Nice weekend :-). > >> > > >> > [1] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2009- > >> > November/000190.html > >> > > >> > Sincerly, > >> > DaB. > >> > > >> > The list: (snip... please snip the entire list when replying, eh? > >> > > >> > -- > >> > wp-blog.de > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Toolserver-announce mailing list > >> > Toolserver-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-announce > >> > > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > >> Posting guidelines for this list: > >> https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > > Posting guidelines for this list: > > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette > > >

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Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts looking for a developer
by Rjd0060 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Hi all - The IRC Group Contacts are in search of a developer to create and maintain a new cloak request system. Some basic details are posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks/System . If you are interested (or know anybody who might be) or have any questions, please get in touch with us. You can email irc-contacts-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org or poke one of us individually ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts#Names ). Thanks in advance. -- Ryan User:Rjd0060

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Fwd: [Toolserver-announce] Account-Extending December
by Laszlo Kozma 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laszlo Kozma <lkozma(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [Toolserver-announce] [Toolserver-l] Account-Extending December To: "DaB." <WP(a)daniel.baur4.info> Hello, I have an account at toolserver.org on which I run wikipediavision which is streamed live on the wikimedia.de server. I was not aware that I needed to send an email to extend the account and I noticed now that the account stopped working and consequently wikipediavision has stopped updating. Could you please update my account or let me know what I should do in order to have it extended ? My account name is: lkozma Sorry for bothering, as I was traveling, I was late reading all the announcements. Thanks, Laszlo Kozma On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:42 PM, DaB. <WP(a)daniel.baur4.info> wrote: > Hello all, > > I got several eMails from you (and 1 spam already). Below is the list of > accounts I will extend tonight, so if you ARE on this list, everything should > be fine for you. If you are NOT on this list, then you didn't send me an eMail > or I didn't get it - please (re)send it. > > For the people which joined us before 15. November and who did not read our > mailinglists before today, please read the eMail at [1] - it tells you what to > do. > > BTW: If you account was created after 15. November, your account is already > extended (if you are unsure, just login, the login-screen tells you when your > account will expire). > > I will send an update next Sunday. Nice weekend :-). > > [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2009- > November/000190.html > > Sincerly, > DaB. > > The list: > 80686 > aka > alexz > annabel > apper > aviator > aweenieman > az1568 > bayo > betacommand > bjweeks > bryan > byrial > cbrown1023 > chabacano > chamorro > chm > chris > cmarqu > componavt > conrad > cosoleto > dab > daniel > dapete > daxim > dbryant > djevrek > dodek > drh08 > dschwen > dungodung > dycedarg > earwig > east718 > endumen > erwin85 > euro > eusebius > fahad > fl > flacus > gribeco > grphack > guandalug > happy_melon > harddisk > heiko > helios > henna > hippietrail > holek > hroest > incola > james > jan > jovan > jude > kolossos > laaknor > leafnode > legoktm > lifeguard > luckas > luxo > lvova > maelgwn > maer > magnus > marc > marco27 > martinp23 > mashiah > mauro742 > maxsem > mazder > merl > mfarag > mfw > mga73 > misza13 > mohamed > multichill > mzmcbride > nakon > nakor > nicdumz > nikola > nn123645 > overlordq > paintman > panther > pathoschild > pietrodn > presroi > prolineserver > pyr0 > quisczicza > reedy > revolus > revvar > rickblock > river > robin > russell > saintrain > schutz > seth > siebrand > simetrical > skalman > soxred93 > stwalkerster > tb > techman224 > thomasv > titoxd > vahid > vvv > vyznev > w > webboy > werdan7 > werdna > werdna > wiki_researcher > yann > yellowcard > zach > > -- > wp-blog.de > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-announce mailing list > Toolserver-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-announce > >

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account renewal
by Larry Pieniazek 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

which JIRA group should it be? I added my renewal request to "Account Approval" Perhaps that wasn't right? But that was my best guess. Please advise. Larry Pieniazek Hobby mail: Lar at Miltontrainworks dot com

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Account-Extending December
by DaB. 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hello all, soon there will be Christmas and we all will eat delicious cookies, watching the falling snow and kitschy TV-movies, listen to the same old xmas-radio- songs again and get and give nice presents (if you don't celebrate xmas or hate it, just eat cookies, ok? ;)) - the best time of year :-). But before this, the second and last account-extending of the year will happen. All accounts are going to expire at 1. December. So if you need your account further, please send an eMail to ts-accounts200902(a)daniel.baur4.info before this date. The eMail should contain your login-name in the subject and in the body. Please do NOT send the eMail to this mailing-list; write a NEW eMail, DON'T use the answer-function of your eMail-client (because it will send the eMail to this mailinglist). If you send the eMail to the mailinglist, you will get the "Can't use his/her eMail-client"-price (and some jokes from the regulars) and NO extending. I will send an update-eMail every Sunday which accounts are not extended then, to get you feedback that I got your eMail and as reminder for others. The next expire-date will be at 1. June 2010 then. Sincerly, DaB.

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OpenStreetMap Mapnik data now available
by River Tarnell 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, previously we had a copy of the OSM mapnik database on cassini. this database has now moved to ptolemy, and is accessible to all users from the normal login/web servers. to use it, connect to the "osm_mapnik" database on the host "sql-mapnik". no password is required. there is no longer any need to run tools on cassini to access this data, and cassini will be retired very soon (once tile rendering is available on ptolemy). people with tools on cassini should therefore move them to the normal Toolserver. the OSM data on ptolemy is being updated nightly from the daily diffs. it's currently a few days lagged, but should catch up in a day or two. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAksXskcACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKQWQCeLAHQB3dh5yTm6RcUqtKWk1ui v+8AnRyCpXIEJ4AQ8Nq8YxjnjEJ9sDyM =rRTw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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zedler (SQL) will be rebooted
by River Tarnell 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, zedler, which serves 'sql' (user databases), will be rebooted later today to see if it fixes an issue with its disk array. this will cause an outage of around 10 minutes for user databases. this issue is being tracked in JIRA as MNT-14. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAksU77UACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIIOACdEOTEYlL2H6CDdFcB+jocrn7R xzQAn2y1GaxkL6wGap9zIifxxhLVjlU9 =HG6q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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