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Composer on tools-lab
by Purodha Blissenbach 23 Sep '15

23 Sep '15

Hi, can we install composer for all? It would be nice to be able to follow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Fetch_external_libraries without having to install individual instances of composer in individual tools. Purodha

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Toolserver SVN repo mirror
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Hi, I just added a mirror of the Toolserver SVN repos (fisheye.toolserver.org) at https://sourceforge.net/p/toolserver/ (see there for details). Thanks again nosy for the dump! https://archive.org/details/toolserver-svn Nemo

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Redirects for toolserver.org moved to WMF
by Silke Meyer 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Hi all, two days ago we switched the DNS record so that the redirects from toolserver.org to wmflabs.org are now handled by WMF. This means: You can no longer contact me/WMDE or Marlen for updating any redirects. Please check if everything's working correctly. Coren, am I right in assuming that people contact you directly if there are any changes needed? Best, Silke -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Data wipe tomorrow
by Marlen Caemmerer 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Hello, tomorrow is the day I will start to completely throw away all data on the Toolserver. After this nothing can be copied anymore. If you feel you still need anything please let me know asap. Cheers nosy

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Jira and Wiki to vanish
by Marlen Caemmerer 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

Hello, the server that runs Jira, Wiki and replications is to vanish since the data center will be canceled after Friday. This means: if you want to keep some pages of the wiki or jira tickets please start your final backup now. It will be offline after Friday morning UTC. I personally kept some pages of the wiki to make the shutdown of TS itself easier for me. I printed them to PDF from the print view. Got me a good layout and all external links. Toolserver will still serve what it served before - redirects and one or 2 tools, that are still in migration process. Mail, DNS and Web will work but the database content will not be renewed after Friday morning. Cheers nosy

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Call for help to Merlbot's Death Anomalies Table
by Silke Meyer 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! As you might know, Merl's bot framework Merlbot is one of the last few projects left on the Toolserver. Merl put a lot of work into modifications and rewriting code to be able to run it in Tool Labs. He is running out of time as database replication will stop on Oct 5th. Any volunteers to support him in finishing before that deadline? What you could do is work on a part of Merlbot called Death Anomalies Table [1]. It generates daily "probably dead" reports in 15 Wikipedias to point to articles about people marked dead in a different language. The code of the death anomalies table [1] consists of nine bash scripts in which SQL queries have to be adapted for Tool Labs. If you are prepared to dive into SQL, please contact Merl [2] as soon as possible. Cheers, Silke [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Death_anomalies_table [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Merl - -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUIpTZAAoJEHodr38uMi5iNtQIAOfrGnM7d2z3moO9dfNpFLbL iCByYINeRHf7wC5WKYhyffFeR4DfXjJehtB+6bx21eT1A1n5TcNRigNMhworhzFr 6MKWg1RTwrjnCIsQJg2LbkQjmjTJory5LIfdkMiQZpGoRAlG7SwHR/IJg1J5uEOf GrXo6yhLMhKI+sW0xWGlXfIyzTNRXB81GiSlxDPdM1qjWMGES5yKZ4xHFr8qRhx4 9S9SiIkoHZxvd+cUnwSsRQIWj+qpZU/2XvNDDmxAFjbe7Q/tVewH2dcJsSb0xyZm uHN3fRVG928TCYklPxHLNv4vBW7EarIPvp28nsQwQIgkLixXzI6Ib4/ilKxZtIc= =t3MR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Top List of Missing Tools
by Marlen Caemmerer 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

Hello, I looked through the "403 - user expired" messages on the web servers again and this is the current Top 50 hit list. If you think a redirect is still missing please let me know: 2430 ~enwikt/wotd 1654 ~hippietrail/nearbypages.fcgi 1393 ~overlordq/cgi-bin 1237 ~overlordq/scripts 1162 ~verisimilus/Bot 1130 ~interiot/cgi-bin 993 ~zach/cgi-bin 931 ~alexxw/Denkmalliste 898 ~platonides/wlm 739 ~skagedal/feeds 717 ~panther/russia 613 ~magnus/wiki_js 608 ~rhaworth/os 606 ~svick/CLT 535 ~superzerocool/es-wn.xml HTTP 371 ~svick/CleanupListing 309 ~chm/whois.php 291 ~dab/jservlets 241 ~quentinv57/sulinfo 240 ~cspurrier/rss 230 ~dapete/ime 228 ~bawolff/rss.php 219 ~gmaxwell/jorbis 209 ~magnus/pushforcommons.php 174 ~cmackenzie/wotd-rss.php HTTP 174 ~bawolff/rss 132 ~chm/monobook 120 ~sonet/api.php 117 ~zache/incatsince 117 ~magnus/cgi-bin 106 ~tangotango/mayflower 104 ~dcoetzee/followedusers 101 ~avatar/feed 100 ~eagle/linksearch 97 ~wikifeeds/adt 93 ~dschwen/iip 87 tiles/hikebike 85 ~str4nd/wikinews-fi.rss HTTP 80 tools.wmflabs.org/kmlexport 80 ~holek/stats 79 ~flacus/IWLC 76 ~zache/category_talk_api.php 71 ~verisimilus/Timeline 71 ~leon/stats 71 ~kentaur/osm_wp 71 ~eagle/spamsearch 69 ~revolus/afterUpload 68 ~netaction/wikitrust.js HTTP Cheers nosy

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New deadline: Get your data off the Toolserver until Sept 30th!!!
by Silke Meyer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! I had announced that August 31st would be the deadline for retrieving backups from the toolserver. As you were right in telling me, hey, that's in the middle of everybody's vacation, the stuff is still there. But: Come and get your backups before the end of September! Once the toolserver is physically decommissioned, the data will be deleted! Gone. Forever. And as stated before: If you are interested in migrating, maintaining, resurrecting someone else's tools, please contact that person and ask first! If you are contacted by others for you own code, I strongly encourage you to *free the knowledge* and let them work on it. (Yes, sometimes old work looks embarrassing nowadays, but it can always help others to figure things out, to get ideas, to improve tools. So for the "greater good"[TM] please free it.) Thanks and cheers, Silke - -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUEsN2AAoJEHodr38uMi5i92oIAIkwis8ztO8cT+2Cm8GosPzh NDAAbrBUMK1Aon/Ad1kakXL41R/rz/zQ7J3f2evnsQsSgT3Eo4ek8ppOK5nxI6sO ElaoiTSxet2YbJp0pap13rJsoeuzwnAg6ruq8+t7PxssPQPZ6fsNqrVvjnaQ43OV ZyH11wBy5dyI4CmgD7huyuJGa08iVnEpR4GUKuWsWpIbhpa/v8exAa5QoEqNvJWP azRdts8XAYtNMMmf5Xt3pzlZwxjWN/586nRofeKNqNxhdLqPgDc4hsNxx7tqHLOf efUY5OnXtbeuaR7O++Cf/3zq6ObUqtDrD3aXp28SoFuNH/VP9ECcyC5WKTRIHzw= =5sOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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A proposal for better tool discoverability
by Hay (Husky) 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hey everyone, for those who attended Wikimania, i hope you all had a wonderful time! One of the things that i've talked about at Mania with a few people is the current way of 'tool discovery', or rather, the lack thereof. We've seen really cool things done by the community, but i have a feeling many of the tools go by unnoticed, simply because nobody knows that they exist. Maybe they've been send around here or posted on IRC, but after the initial interest many of them are forgotten and lead a lonely life on our virtual servers. I think this is especially problematic for non-community members for whom the tools might be very useful. For example, as a Wikipedian in Residence and GLAM advocate i have sent numerous mails with links to the various GLAM tools made by Magnus, stats.grok.se, etcetera. But, you might say, we run all these knowledge sites called wikis right? And there are some pages there that list tools, don't they? You're right, the community has put some efforts in a few pages (1). However, IMHO, a wiki doesn't lend itself to easy tool discovery: * The format on how to describe a tool is unclear, thereby leading to both very long and very short descriptions. * It's not possible to easily search for tools in a certain category (e.g. 'GLAM' or 'editcount'). * The categorization of tools leads to much clicking around, distracting and confusing users. * There's no way to sort results, for example by the number of people using the tool. The biggest problem of all is the disconnection between the actual code of the tool itself (hosted in a Git repo), and the description advertising it. People update their tool to do something different (or deprecate it), but they forget the documentation on the wiki, don't remove it when the tool doesn't work anymore, etcetera. I believe we can, and should do better. THE PROPOSAL My proposal is to use the same mechanisms that already exist for package managers such as NPM (2) or 'app stores', such as the Chrome store (3). Basically this involes adding a small JSON file to your project, including a few key properties such as 'title' and 'description'. These files get indexed, and an easy to use frontend to search to all the tools is provided to end users. You could imagine a 'toolinfo.json' file to look something like this: { "name" : "WikiDataQuery", "description" : "An API for Wikidata items and properties.", "url" : "http://wdq.wmflabs.org/", "keywords" : "wikidata, api, query", "author" : "Magnus Manske" } If you have a web-hosted tool, simply stick it in the root of your tools directory so that it's reachable by the crawler. Whenever your tool data changes, just update the file and the directory will automatically update the directory site. The link to your toolinfo.json could be added to a Wiki page so that it's easy to remove your tool from the directory or change the URL to the JSON file. I'm a firm believer in putting code where your mouth is, so i've hacked up a working tool directory here: http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory Try searching for stuff, clicking on the labels. To add your own tool, scroll the page down for instructions. Current this only lists my tools, but i hope that this directory will soon grow with everything the Wikimedia community has to offer. I'm interested in your opinion in this proposal and, if you like it, add a toolinfo.json to your project! Kind regards, -- Hay / [[User:Husky]] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools 2: https://www.npmjs.org/ 3: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/manifest

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user-store & host sql (adenia) broken
by Marlen Caemmerer 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

Hello, today adenia finally died - OS not found. Fortunatelly all relevant data was already on the SAN so I could move the DBs completely to cassia. The host alias sql also points there. user-store had to move as well and is now active on cassia, too. It was an interruption of about 2,5h all together. This regards very few users only but you should know since OSM and Merls tools were not accessible and are probably still broken if they dont use the hostname "sql" for the queries. Cheers nosy

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