Toolserver-l January 2012

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Data of s1 (enwiki) probably corrupted
by DaB. 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Hello all, because of a wmf-master-change last week (when Nosy and I were in the datacenter) and a mistake on our side, the data of s1 which were inserted after 18. January are proberly defect or wrong. I already requested a new dump and will inform you, when there is any progress or news. Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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interwiki.py
by Maarten Dammers 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Hi everyone, Nightshade was a bit slow so I typed "top -c". I was amazed to see that almost all the top processes seem to be interwiki related (interwiki.py). Same seems to be the case at willow. Normally I wouldn't really care, we have the servers so we should use them, but now the login servers seem to be overloaded. Isn't this a bit too many interwiki bots? Maarten

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Query execution was interrupted
by emijrp 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi; I'm getting that error when querying English Wikipedia. I add /* SLOW_OK */ to my queries. What is the sense of adding SLOW_OK if my queries are being killed anyway? Regards, emijrp

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Where's a convenient list of all active Wikipedia bots
by Philipp Zedler 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hallo! I'm needing a list of all active Wikipedia bots in all language versions in order to judge how important the edits are which I read from the table `revision' from databases like `dewiki_p'. I want to discriminate bot-edits from other minor edits by checking if the corresponding user name is that of a bot. I could, of course, extract the names of all bots from HTML by parsing the page about `All Wikipedia bots' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_Wikipedia_bots But very likely there's a much more convenient way, like an sql table containing the bots. (The list of bots running on the Wikimedia Toolserver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_bots_running_on_the_Wikimed… contains to few bots for my purposes.) Best Philipp

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Extraordinary maintenance this week
by DaB. 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Hello all, Nosy and I will be in Haarlem (NL) this week (thursday and friday) to perform hardware-maintenance on the TS; several services or servers will be down during the maintaince and there will be no schedular what will be down when. We will try to be in the IRC and announce there, but I can not promise that. We hope that the TS will be avaiable completly during the night-hours (23-6 URC), but it can happen that some parts where missing. Our goal is it the expand the disc-capacity of the TS and add some redudancy. Also we will repair some stuff and will do much of documentation. Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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toolserver interwiki project (was: interwiki.py)
by Merlijn van Deen 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

For the pywikipedia-l listeners just tuning in: the toolserver has an overload of interwiki bots, and we want to reduce this. As such, we want to switch to a single bot that runs all the interwiki updates from the toolserver. On 16 January 2012 09:19, Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw(a)arctus.nl> wrote: > The only reasonable action we can take to reduce the memory > consumption is to let the OS do its job in freeing memory: using one > process to track pages that have to be corrected (using the database, > if possible), and one process to do the actual fixing (interwiki.py). > This should be reasonably easy to implement (i.e. use a pywikibot page > generator to generate a list of pages, use a database layer to track > interlanguage links and popen('interwiki.py <page>') if this is a > fixable situation) > > I took some time yesterday to work out some details on this - see http://piratepad.net/T29Uj4j1U4 . It boils down to this: 1) generation of a list of pages to work on: from the database, if possible 2) dispatching interwiki.py based on that list of pages and handling logging 3) interwiki.py itself My suggestion is to split these tasks, and creating a simple interface (e.g. WSGI) between 1) and 2), and using subprocesses for 2) to 3). Yesterday, I have been working (mainly) on speeding up the startup of interwiki.py, so that we can spawn one process per Page. On the Toolserver side, I would appreciate any comments/work/existing work on the creation of an interwiki graph from the database - there are already tools that suggest images based on interwiki links, so this code should be around - and hopefully be adaptable. The only goal for this process would be to create a list of starting pages interwiki.py can use - i.e. graphs with one or more missing links, but without any double links. On the Pywikipedia side, some thoughts on running interwiki.py in a new process would be welcome. e.g. how can we improve startup time ('kill all the regexps!') and effectively spawn multiple processes to run. What parameters (throttles?) should be tuned, et cetera. Best, Merlijn

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Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January
by Sumana Harihareswara 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-s… Editing pages on English Wikipedia via the web service API will be disabled for 24 hours beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18, as part of the anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout. Please forward and publicize so people who use and run bots are alerted. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Regular Maintenance at 7. December
by DaB. 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hello all, like already announced after the last maintenance, the next maintenance will be at Wednesday, 7 December between 19:00 and 1:00 UTC. The roots will collect what they will do at [1] until Sunday night. If you have something for us to do (like a software-update) please open a bugreport at JIRA and make sure to add the label "maintaince-window" until Sunday noon. The roots plan to finish the configuration of Apache until Wednesday too, but there will be no switch yet to give you all some time for testing (I will send a eMail with more details when the time is right). Sincerly, DaB. [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Admin:Next_maintenance -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Happy New Year 2012
by DaB. 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hello all, we are should be in 2012 now, so I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. Let us hope that the toolserver will run smoothly, stable and fast in this year, that it will be extended as far as it is needed, that new and old users will write wonderfull tools, that people continue to use new and old tools and that the roots will not cause more trouble than needed. Happy New Year! Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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