Toolserver-l April 2012

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I will be away between Wednesday and Sunday
by DaB. 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

Hello all, I will be away between Wednesday (18.) and Sunday (22.) because of my duties as cash auditor (Kassenprüfer) of the WMDE. I guess that there will be time to read my mail, but I will not be in chat during this time-frame. So if you have a request, open a bug in JIRA (like you should always do ;)) and try to reach Nosy if it is urgent. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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News about s1/enwiki
by DaB. 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hello all, the import of s1 on thyme was finally done this morning (took a few days longer than I expected); replication is already running, replag is lower than 5 days at the moment. I declared it as sql-s1-rr and it is read-only at the moment (to speed up the replication a bit). I will also switch sql-s1-user to it and will make it read/write somewhen tonight. Shortly after I start the re-import on rosemary. Please note that thyme has no commons-copy at the moment, so joins between enwp/commons are not possible on sql-s1-rr at the moment and will not be possible on sql-s1-user soon (when I start the re-import on rosemary). Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Updating pywikipedia
by محمد الجداوي 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi all. Every day i update my pywikipedia folder on toolserver by typing: svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia How can i make a cron for updating every day at 10:03 p.m? Thanks in advance.

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smtpd not listening on IPv6?
by Christopher David Howie 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Hello, This is a very minor issue, just thought I would point it out. The mail servers listed in the MX record for toolserver.org don't accept inbound connections from the IPv6 Internet, only IPv4: Apr 9 13:11:38 www postfix/smtp[28632]: connect to clematis.toolserver.org[2620:0:862:101::2:1]:25: Connection refused Apr 9 13:11:38 www postfix/smtp[28632]: connect to hawthorn.toolserver.org[2620:0:862:101::2:5]:25: Connection refused Apr 9 13:11:46 www postfix/smtp[28632]: 5F0FA801DF: to=<unblock(a)toolserver.org>, relay=clematis.toolserver.org[91.198.174.195]:25, delay=17, delays=0.39/0.09/11/6.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as EF68E453B) This obviously is not a huge problem, as MTAs will fall back on the IPv4 records. I just thought I would point it out in case this was unknown. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ PGP fingerprint: 2B7A B280 8B12 21CC 260A DF65 6FCE 505A CF83 38F5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to you and therefore you can read it. Additionally, by sending an email to ANY of my addresses or to ANY mailing lists to which I am subscribed, whether intentionally or accidentally, you are agreeing that I am "the intended recipient," and that I may do whatever I wish with the contents of any message received from you, unless a pre-existing agreement prohibits me from so doing. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message.

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use of include_once in PHP changed
by Ja Ga 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Now that Toolserver is coming back from the dead, none of my PHP reports are displaying content. See, for instance, http://toolserver.org/~jason/disambig_links.php. The content cuts out whenever the report uses an include_once statement, as the following: include_once("../sql/status/dab_last_good_run.php"); Now, this report hasn't changed in ages, so does anyone know why these reports now fail to render content when they reach an include_once? Thanks, Jason

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UnicodeEncodeError
by Alchimista 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi, I'm having an UnicodeEncodeError, something like: "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 28-29: ordinal not in range(128)" on print or wikipedia.output() statments when running scripts submitted on submit@ with qcronsub. Some time ago I've asked for help on irc, and was told that was an undocumented error, and pointed a solution, because has far as i remember, my LC_ALL wasn't defined. I now have set upt qcronsub to run the following sh script: #! /bin/sh LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" /usr/bin/python /home/alchimista/aleph/avbot.py -botnick:'Aleph Bot' -ownernick:Alchimista -newbie:100 > /dev/null It worked for some weeks, but now is back again. How can i fix it? -- Alchimista http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilizador:Alchimista

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Corruption of s6 and (short) downtime of s6 tomorrow (Tuesday)
by DaB. 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hello all, we discovered today that s6 became corrupt [1] after replication-problems last week [2]. We requested a dump already, because it will need a re-import, and we will try to keep the downtimes of s6 to a minimum. The first downtime will be tomorrow evening, starting 19:00 UTC and should be under 1h (I think 15min); we will preparing the re-import during this time (for the techs: We clone the zone of z-dat-s6-a). I will message you again when the dump-import is done and we will make the final switch (which will cause a read-only-time and another short down-time). Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1228 [2] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1343 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Dementia (was: 403: User account expired toolserver.org/~soxred93)
by [[w:en:User:Madman]] 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

> That documentation completely misses the point :( > There's no list of what actions to use in the factory, or that a login > action has setPassword method (as you're using the magic method __set(), > those things aren't listed by phpDocumentor). > It's that kind of things what I'd want to view (or an explanation on how > to map the api documentation to dementia). Like most generated documentation, the audience is more developers than end users (I hope to do a better write-up soon for end users, including what the core goals of the framework are, but I'm aware that my progress is slow at the moment). All of the methods to use on an Action or Query instance *are* listed, though; you can get variables, set variables, and execute, and that's it. The variables you can get or set depend on what action or query is specified, but there is not a separate framework class for each action or query. The variables are by necessity defined in the API documentation (e.g. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Allpages) and not the framework documentation; while I could write up examples using the framework for each type of action and query, I couldn't possibly cover the sheer breadth of options that are available in the API. The point at the moment is that the framework automagically handles all prefixing of parameters, including generators' parameters, so the end user's code is more readable; it also continues queries automatically and selects an appropriate backend for actions and queries (which is its primary purpose). Does that make more sense? -Madman

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Re: [Toolserver-l] Corruption of s6 and (short) downtime of s6 tomorrow (Tuesday)
by DaB. 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Hello, Am Montag 02 April 2012, 23:34:56 schrieb cybernet678: > Which databases are in the S6 Cluster? mysql> SELECT dbname FROM toolserver.wiki WHERE server=6 ORDER BY dbname; +----------+ | dbname | +----------+ | frwiki_p | | jawiki_p | | ruwiki_p | +----------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Is there an alternative to the tool server ran article assessments?
by Danny B. 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Forwarding mail from Sarah posted in another maillist. Danny B. --- CUT HERE --- Hi everyone, A key part of my residency work as a Wikipedian in Residence is article assessment related metrics for my GLAMs. I know that toolserver is having problems, and the problems seem to go in and out. I have been in the process of gathering metrics for the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and article assessments aren't "working" (for lack of a better word) at all. For example, my template has been stuck at 85 articles for weeks[1], and trust me, it is beyond that now. Are there any other options similar to this? I also use a hidden category, too, but, this chart gives a nice vision of what the status is of articles and how the quality can be shifted over time. Or even insight (in layman's terms) on when one thinks that this tool will be working again? I'm to a point where toolserver is nothing but a source of frustration for me (and I know I'm not the only one!). I have virtually no clue what is going on with it (I hear "rumors" about things but..) and for my residency work it's an imperative tool to me promoting aspects of the residency concept to organizations. Is there anything I can do to rectify this? If I could magically buy a new server I would. I don't even know if you can do that, but, seriously. And yes, I pinged people on the assessment tool talk page and was sent to some other page with a bunch of conversation by techies about the server that provided me little insight since I'm not a hacker. Thanks. Sarah [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SIA -- Sarah Stierch Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow >>Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today<<

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