Toolserver-l June 2011

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user_properties privacy issues
by Maarten Dammers 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

Hi everyone, I just noticed https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Us… so I wondered where the data comes from. I checked the commonswiki_p database and it looks like user_properties is visible now. I always considered the user_properties information privacy sensitive information. It contains the gender, language and timezone of every user. Information I'm sure a lot of people don't want to have exposed. Please remove this table from the view. Maarten

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SSH login issue
by Jimmy Xu 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Hi, Recently I'm experiencing some problems trying to login to toolserver. The SSH log says: [...] debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/jimmy/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 277 Connection closed by 2620:0:862:101::2:4 jimmy@vangogh:~$ Had someone add my pubkey to his authorized_keys but the problem persists. Anyone can give me a hint? Thanks. -- Jimmy Xu

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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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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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by Emmanuelle Raymond 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

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alphabetic codes in irc update streams
by Ed Summers 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

I was wondering if anyone knew if there is a list of the codes that follow the page names in the mediawiki IRC update stream. For example the "MB" in the following example: 20:43 <@rc-pmtpa> [[2007–08 A-League]] MB http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=435699936&oldid=435699679 * Cydebot * (+3) Robot - Speedily moving category 2008 in Australian football (soccer) to [[:Category:2008 in Australian association football]] per [[WP:CFDS|CFDS]]. I'm trying to identify bots for this visualization of the updates [1]. Any tips or pointers would be appreciated. //Ed [1] http://wikistream.inkdroid.org

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s3/s4/s6/s7 server split - action required for user databases
by River Tarnell 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This mail affects you if you have user databases on s3, s4, s6 or s7. Other users can ignore it. Currently, these clusters are all on the same server. During the re-import, I will do an internal server split, i.e. each cluster will be on a different MySQL server afterwards. We will then move user databases to the new servers, and do the same thing on the other server. This presents a problem when restoring user databases, because it's not clear which cluster(s) the user intended each database to exist on. That problem will be resolved as follows: User databases which contain a wiki name or a cluster name in the database name will be restored to that cluster. All other databases will be restored to s3. If you don't agree with this algorithm, you should list your database name under the appropriate cluster at [0] and it will be restored to the server you request. You can list one database under multiple servers, if you want (but please consider disk space requirements before doing that). - river. [0] <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/User:River/hyacinth_db_split> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (SunOS) iEYEARECAAYFAk4B3HEACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJrlQCeN3lbb/GRgzihawzBWobeIttn NAEAoLcyAN7eHNetAcpBjfH5gFEfi2BQ =B63B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Python cgi safery issues
by Alex Brollo 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

I know python much better than PHP, so I feel myself reasonably comfortable with cgi python module dealing with simple tests of html queries. In the meantime, I'm worried abut possible safety issues, so what is your suggestion to fix any coding/setting mistake? Have I to publish here, or into toolserver wiki, my code? As you guess, I'm not so deep into such issues. Thanks! Alex brollo

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Re-importing of several database clusters
by River Tarnell 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm about to re-import several database clusters from WMF: s3, s4, s6 and s7. This will be done on the secondary server first, so users won't be affected, except that queries on these clusters might be a bit slower for a while. This will resolve the following TS issues: TS-948 creating of rue.wiki TS-926 Cassia and hyacinth are missing the ruewiki-database TS-1013 metawiki Database seems to be corrupt And might resolve the following issues, although they don't provide enough information to be sure of the cause: TS-1024 cswikisource_p needs reimport TS-1048 cswiktionary_p needs reimport This reimport might take longer than usual because I will be testing a new way of configuring database servers (which hopefully reduce database corruption in the future). Once this is done, I'll switch user databases to the secondary server (during which they will be offline for a couple of hours), and then reimport the other server. s1, s2 and s5 will be done later. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (SunOS) iEYEARECAAYFAk4AxugACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIELACdF8k2zkgsakxSo6x+jyrySy2o KEwAnigGCyqS8td/t7gcQT97wjAwAOvV =citf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Toolserver-l] SSH login issue
by Jimmy Xu 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Hi, Using the new key in JIRA I still got the same error. I'm connecting from 50.93.195.17*. However FYI I did SSH'd to that host to try so this wouldn't seem to be a firewall or something. 2011/06/20 22:14 "DaB." <WP(a)daniel.baur4.info>: > > ssh -i privatekey.rsa platonides(a)toolserver.org > > please try that on your own server, not on the TS. > I did got denied and falled-back to the "Password:" prompt. -- Jimmy Xu

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