Toolserver-l April 2009

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New hardware ordered
by Daniel Kinzler 29 Jun '11

29 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 21 Mar '10

21 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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Faster, Better, Stronger: more servers ordered
by Daniel Kinzler 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Yesterday, Wikimedia Deutschland has ordered five new servers, three of which will be added to the toolserver cluster. They will be delivered (hopefully) in two to three weeks, and will go online perhaps a week or two after that. If you want to know what the new servers will be used for, have a look at our blog: <http://journal.toolserver.org/entry/2009/04/29/faster-better-stronger/>. -- daniel

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Policy changed to accomodate OpenStreetMap projects.
by Daniel Kinzler 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi all Wikimedia Germany has decided to help the OpenStreetMap community, and one part of this help is providing a place to play with OpenStreetMap-replated projects on the Toolserver cluster. The policy <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules> has been changed to reflect this. Section 2 now reads: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use of the toolservers must be related to a designated affiliate project (see below). This rule will be strictly enforced as violations are an abuse of donated resources. If you are at all unsure if something you want to do is appropriate, contact ts-admins first. 1. Designated affiliate projects of the toolserver are currently 1) The Wikimedia Foundation and any of its projects and 2) OpenStreetMap and any of its projects 2. The use of specific resources like databases or login servers may be reserved for use with specific projects. For instance, some resources may be set asside for use for OpenStzreetMap-related projects. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to start playing with OSM stuff, please be patient for a few more weeks. Hardware has been ordered (more about that later). -- daniel

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fingerprints.toolserver.org
by River Tarnell 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, for people accessing the Toolserver without their usual SSH client fingerprint database, there is now a secure way to verify the fingerprint of each system: https://fingerprints.toolserver.org the SSL certificate is signed with a valid CA key which should be accepted by all browsers. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkn3QfMACgkQIXd7fCuc5vLmIQCgveHNrRHw38WnfcDGBXjwn++c JTYAnRRST1t0OmwfSxAu/B4vVDw7qmQa =ZlsP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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toolserver meta-database updated and extended
by Daniel Kinzler 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi all I have finally updated the toolserver.wiki and toolserver.namespace table. I'll look into automating this process for the future. I have also added a new table to the toolserver database: toolserver.namespacename. This is similar to the toolserver.namespace table, but includesd *all* valid names for each namespace, local (primary), canonical and aliases. I didn't add the additional info into the toolserver.namespace because that would have broken existing tools that rely on joining against toolserver.namespace without multiplying the result. Anyway, the new table can now be used to resolve namespace names to IDs. enjoy, daniel

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Experimental: Live template value search
by Magnus Manske 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

I have set up a highly experimental (read: pre-pre-alpha) tool on the toolserver to search for combinations of key/value pairs in templates. Like TemplateTiger, but for the live site (one day...) URL: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/knights_template.php (as in "Knights Templar", sorry, couldn't resist) What does it do (or should do): Find actors on Wikipedia that have a book by publisher McFarland cited as source? No problem: http://tinyurl.com/chadva (will take a few seconds) All templates used on [[Roy Scheider]], with key/value pairs: http://tinyurl.com/dkpbh7 Things that need fixing (like, everything): * Slooow * Only en.wikipedia * Only 16K pages indexed at the moment (some Recent Changes snapshots) * Only templates used directly in the article are indexed * Needs continuous update (can run on cron, but disabled because text retrieval and DB storage too slow to keep up with RC) * Needs better query interface * Might cause database size problems All in all, it would be much better directly integrated into MediaWiki (no need for text retrieval/parsing, no bulk updates). But I've been saying that for years, at least this is a first attempt. Cheers, Magnus

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my personal email address is not a support contact
by River Tarnell 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, if you have a problem or need support for the Toolserver, you have several options: 1. ask on IRC (irc.freenode.net #wikimedia-toolserver) 2. open a request in the TS project in JIRA (https://jira.toolserver.org) - this is preferred for public requests 3. send mail to ts-admins [at] toolserver.org, which will open a private ticket viewable by all administrators. what you should not do is send email to me privately. this has been happening a lot recently and it's annoying. it won't get you support any quicker, all it'll do is make me not want to deal with your problem. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAknrF10ACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIPvACgm/KkvnvpesuSlN2FwYz/N4N6 tsYAnjiUZOW7Y2eMUrGg5Azn3PF7T/fz =lVxU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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DEADLINE for WMDE contract applications
by Daniel Kinzler 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hello all At the developer meetup, I announced that Wikimedia Deutschland is offering contracts for a couple of projects we feel are important. We again invite anyone to apply NOW for any project that interests you. The DEADLINE for applying is SUNDAY, APRIL 19! We did not receive any offer for the most urgent project: Evaluate the impact of using flagged revisions on the German Wikipedia, see <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Evaluate_the_impact_of_u…>. We feel that it would be very helpful to run a full analysis on this before the English language Wikipedia decides on how to implement flagged revisions. It's a powerful tool, and we should make sure we use it to it's full potential. Below, the other projects are listed again: * Rewrite CatScan, a tool for finding pages in a set of categories recursively, based on various criteria - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Rewrite_CatScan * Store interwiki-links in the database, just like we already store interlanguage-links - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Store_interwiki-links_in… * Improve the Gadgets extension to allow for gadgets to be enabled per default, be restricted to specific user groups, etc - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Improve_the_Gadets_exten… * Implement full support for TIFF files, including multi-page TIFFs, similar to how DjVu is handled - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Implement_full_support_f… If you would like to help with any of the above, please contact me at <daniel.kinzler AT wikimedia.de> and provide the following information: * Your real name and country of residence * How you plan to go about implementing the desired function * Any experience working with MediaWiki * How many working hours you would spend on it, and how much you ask for it * In what time frame you would be able to do the job This information is also available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers Thanks you all for your interest! -- daniel

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network maintenance
by River Tarnell 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, there will be some maintenance today on the network which hosts the Toolserver. the expected outage time is less than 15 minutes. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAknm+kMACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJBHgCdFce7InXSjIOQpLrIP8/4OXQP k1gAoMBSQ0LlgC+DFixAfQq4RSyAVFR+ =jmZR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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