Toolserver-l February 2012

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FYI: login.toolserver not responding or asking for password, HTTP down
by Aaron Halfaker 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

I can't seem to ssh to login.toolserver.org (times out or asks for password) and the HTTP server appears to be down. -Aaron (grphack@toolserver)

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External authentication?
by Magnus Manske 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Hi all, on my talk page, [[User:Pathoschild]] raised the idea of allowing OpenID authentication to operate toolserver tools that currently rely on TUSC. While I'd rather go for browserID [1] (not mutually exclusive), it raised the point of which authentication is "good enough" for using some toolserver tools, especially those that edit or upload on Wiki(m|p)edia projects. Would these non-TUSC accounts need to be linked to Wiki(m|p)edia user names? If so, how would this be done? If Wiki(m|p)edia were to provide openID/browserID authentication, it would be a non-issue, but as it stands, this would need to be done on the toolserver in some form, which would most likely be more cumbersome than the current TUSC account creation. Ideas? Magnus [1] https://browserid.org/

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Save the date: Wikimedia & MediaWiki hackathon in Berlin, 1-3 June 2012
by Sumana Harihareswara 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon. This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising. Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, with lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come! Some financial assistance will be available -- more details soon. This event will be hosted by Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Thank you, WMDE! Dates: June 1-3 2012. Barely-started wiki page, no registration details yet: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012 . Organizers: me and WMDE's Nicole Ebber with assistance from Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Kinzler. Mark your calendars! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Regular Maintenance at 8. February
by DaB. 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hello all, the next maintenance will be at Wednesday, 8 February 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. Sincerly, DaB. [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Admin:Next_maintenance -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Apply for Wikimania travel funding? Deadline in 8 days
by Sumana Harihareswara 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Just wanted to remind you that you can apply for a Wikimania travel subsidy: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships The deadline is the 16th of February. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Short outtake arround noon and s4-problems
by DaB. 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hello all, the toolserver had a short outtake today arround noon because there was a problem with our 2 HA-nodes which control the LDAP, what is necessary for login and file-rights. The problems started arround 13:10 and ended arround 13:40 (UTC). Independently we also discovered that the file-system which carries z-dat-s4-a was corrupted and so z-dat-s4-a can not start anymore and need a re-setup (we have backups of the user-databases there); I will do that at Wednesday in the maintenaice-window. Until then, s4 (commons) is accessable only for reading on the other hosts. Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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dumps directory
by Stefan Kühn 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hello, can every user change in directory /mnt/user-store/dumps the permission at the subdirectories and files! For example in drwxrwxr-x 2 gifti dumps 1024 Jan 23 18:23 dewiki nobody else can import a dump (only the owner). Or: -rw-rw-r-- 1 jcreus dumps 1826145973 Apr 12 2011 cawiki-20110412-pages-articles.xml Nobody can move this file in the subfolder cawiki If possible, please use chmod(777) for subdirectories and files. Thanks. Stefan (sk)

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by unitedcabletv＠gmail.com 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

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interwiki.py
by Maarten Dammers 01 Feb '12

01 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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Toolserver-l February 2012