Toolserver-l December 2010

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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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I make a vector skins for toolserver
by June Hyeon Bae 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

I make a vector skins for toolserver. $title = "Test Title"; require_once("skins/vector.header.php"); // codes... require_once("skins/vector.footer.php"); ex) (http://toolserver.org/~devunt/index.php) [code] <? $title="Main Page"; require_once("skins/vector.header.php"); ?> <table class='wikitable'> <tr><th>For</th><th>Tool Name/Link</th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan=2>Korean Wikipedia</td> <td><a href="kovr.php">Korean WP Admin poll checker</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="userid.php">Userid checker</a></td> </tr> </table> <? require_once("skins/vector.footer.php") ?> [/code] And I set the permission /home/devunt/public_html/skins/ to 0755. thank you.

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FYI: Changing of interwiki-bots-account-approval
by DaB. 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Hello all, with the beginning of the next year (2011) I will not longer accept new interwiki-bot-accounts, if: -The homewiki of the bot has at least one active interwiki-bot, which runs on the toolserver, OR -The homewiki has less then 1000 articles. (There can be exceptions if there is a good reason of course) The homewiki is that wiki where the bot starts and where the account-requester got his/her bot approved (see [1]). If the account-requester requested the account only for the interwiki-bot, the request will be rejected; if he/she requested the account also for other things, only the interwiki-bot will be denied of course and the rest of the request will be handled the normal way. For interwiki-bots which runs already on the toolserver, there is no change at the moment. When you find a free minute: Please add your bot to [2] and check if there are inactive bots listed for your wiki. The goal of this change is to limit the number of interwiki-bots on the toolserver (and improve our documentary a bit). Sincerly, DaB. [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Account_approval_process, Request process, Point 4. [2] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Wikimedia_bots -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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/mnt/user-store is full
by Darkdadaah 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi, it looks like the user-store is completely full: >df hemlock:/aux0/user-store 3904398336 3904398336 0 100% /mnt/user-store It requires cleaning and sorting (especially the dumps that are all over the place), but I especially wonder what is taking so much place ? I guess I'll have to use my home quota for now. Darkdadaah

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I10N and toolserver subdomains
by Mike Połtyn 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hey, guys. I've had an epiphany today about internationalization of the Toolserver tools. You see, right now we have to create our own ways to provide more languages: * http://toolserver.org/~holek/cite-gen/index.php?scriptlang=gsw * http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?uselang=ckb etc. etc. What I propose is language subdomains, much like Wikimedia projects have. All language subdomains would refer to the same directories, so we could just do Apache's ServerAlias equivalent on ZWS. This would make possible for developers to read the language user wants directly from the subdomain, instead of relying on seperate tool implementation of translations. And by that, I mean just using different parameters to describe user's desired language, not how to achieve this. So, for example, above links would look like this: * http://gsw.toolserver.org/~holek/cite-gen/index.php * http://ckb.toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php A tool reades subdomain's code and uses a correct language, much like it would do with an additional parameter... ... but this parameter is now gone and is not cluttering the query string. :) -- Mike Połtyn -- P.S. this message is a duplicate, so I apologize if the first one arrives as well. I've had some problems with my mailing list account

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General maintenance notice: January 3rd, 2011
by River Tarnell 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On the morning (UTC) of January 3rd we will performance general maintenance[0] on all servers. Services will be affected as follows: Service | Expected impact --------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Login server: nightshade | See below. Login/web servers | Some software unavailable for < 30 minutes. All other services | No impact. Start time: Monday, 3rd January, 12AM UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=1&year=201… End time: Monday, 3rd JAnuary, 3AM UTC (estimated) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=1&year=201… Details: We will perform general software upgrades. A list of software to be upgraded can be found at: <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Admin:Pending_maintenance_tasks> Some software may be unavailable or function incorrectly during the upgrade process, which we estimate will take under 30 minutes. -- Python 2.6 (/usr/bin/python2.6, /opt/ts/python/2.6/bin/python) will be removed during the maintenance. This was announced in the previous maintenance and no problems have been reported with Python 2.7, which is currently the default Python. -- The default locale on the Solaris login servers will change to en_US.UTF-8. This was already the case for all services except "cron". -- We will reinstall nightshade, the Linux login server, as Solaris. This was announced in September and again in November. No major issues have been reported which would block the migration. For more information, see <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2010-September/000…> and <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2010-November/0003…> - river. [0] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Maintenance_schedule -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0Z+m8ACgkQIXd7fCuc5vK7ZgCfRUJNpjo7AXpoh/r48B92YPkb BvUAn27En7d+5q6qPwNWBBSg6kJLzv7J =xTT4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Reboot of amaranth
by River Tarnell 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, At 19:20 UTC Wikimedia accidentally rebooted amaranth (the Toolserver system in the US) during maintenance. This caused an outage of JIRA, MediaWiki, FishEye and MySQL database replication for around 5 minutes. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0JFhIACgkQIXd7fCuc5vLatQCdHgJjQYDJxDQFOs55CNbDHeoS HwEAnj0iQldsfA5kwkRjafrLHu9+wSXL =lDUg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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mysql quries killing script
by Mashiah Davidson 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hello, One day it was announced that long running queries are being killed in case the replag exceeds some value. I've added a simple piece of code to my tools, which prints replag info in case a query is killed and a few days ago I've got the following result: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR 1317 (70100) at line 6874: Query execution was interrupted last replicated timestamp: 20101207214400 replag: 00:00:01 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could anyone explain whether it was possible that a query (even a long running one) has been killed when replag was so good? mashiah

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Two beginner questions
by Alex Brollo 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

1. I'm testing my skill and I run my script under cron. The python script begin with these rows (and it runs): # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #!/usr/bin/python import os,sys if not sys.platform=="win32": sys.path.append('/home/alebot/pywikipedia') os.chdir("/home/alebot/scripts") Then I tried to move to batch job sheduling, but... my script gives an error: now the server dislikes sys.path row. Why? I obviously have to study more: but what/where have I sto study? :-( 2. The script bring into life a python bot, who reads RecentChanges at 10 minutes intervals by a cron routine. Is perhaps more efficient a #irc bot listening it.wikisource #irc channel for recent changes in your opinion? Where can I find a good python script to read #irc channels? Thanks - I apologize for so banal questions. Alex

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Heads-up: Kolossos' Wikipedia layer enabled on plwiki
by Marcin Cieslak 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I have replaced Wikiminiatlas with the Wikipedia OSM layer as prepared by Kolossos on the Polish Wikipedia. The URL we are using is: http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lang=pl& ... The appropriate change was done here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pl/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Commo… https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pl/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACom… I would like to say big "thank you" to User:Kolossos for having this nice function! I have put my only feature request for now here: https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/WPONOSM-2https://jira.toolserver.org/bro… //Marcin - User:Saper

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