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Family file
by محمد الجداوي 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Hello. Although i update my pywikipedia file daily, the following phrase appears when i run my bot on cmd or toolserver: "WARNING: Family file wikipedia contains version number 1.19wmf1, but it should be 1.20wmf1" What does it mean and how can i solve it?

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Maintenance on Friday
by Marlen Caemmerer 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Hello, in parallel to DaBPunkts SGE update maintenance I will do some database host maintenance. hyacinth which holds s3, s4, s6 and s7 will be rebooted and afterwards more space will be added to cassia which holds s2 and s5. I will start my work at 8 pm UTC. Regards Marlen/nosy

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Rules clarifications
by MZMcBride 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Hi. I have two clarification requests regarding the Toolserver rules (<https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules>): 1. There's a new rule now in effect regarding interwiki bots.[1] How will this rule be enforced? 2. There's currently a rule requiring every bot user page to mention that the bot runs on the Toolserver.[2] I don't think this rule is followed very closely (I don't think any of my bots mention where they're hosted at the moment). I believe this rule originated due to a desire to avoid inadvertent autoblock damage on the Toolserver's IP addresses if a bad bot were blocked. But most wikis now whitelist the Toolserver's IP range using <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Autoblock_whitelist>. Is this rule still necessary and/or in effect? MZMcBride [1] Text: After 2. April 2012 the continuous running of langlink-bots (also named interwikibots) is only allowed for the Multi-Maintainer-Project "interwikibot". [2] Text: You have to add a line at the bot-userpage, that the bot runs at the toolserver.

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Toolserver having a bad day?
by DeltaQuad 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Ok, so i've checked status.toolserver.org and have found nothing going on but some stuff has been breaking at random points today. I've had a Cron job return: Subject: Cron <deltaquad@willow> cronsub IPBEBot $HOME/IPBE/IPBE.py /opt/local/bin/cronsub[44]: 9793 Killed I've had another return: Subject: Cron <deltaquad@willow> cronsub UAABot $HOME/UAA/UAA.py error: not enough memory to allocate 2404 bytes in init_packbuffer Unable to run job: Error reading answer list from qmaster. Exiting. And then on a MMP (yes this is a customized message): The x script has failed. The error message received was: <b>A database error occured when attempting to process your request: </b><br />Failed to connect to database server ! Please check the database to resolve this issue and ensure that private data is removed on schedule. Is it what we have running or is this a toolserver issue in general? and should I file a bug? (SysAdmins - Especially DaB. please don't take this as me being critical, I just wanna help if I can identify any problems and file a JIRA if needed ;) ) -- DeltaQuad English Wikipedia Administrator

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Re: [Toolserver-l] Blocking of hacking attacks IP addresses?
by wikipedia＠tiko.demon.co.uk 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

On a similar environment to the Toolserver that I've used in the past, I've had to log the start and end times of any non-trivial external vulnerability testing (i.e. running Netsparker against production servers). I'm guessing these were used to redact portions of the logs prior to security audits. Anything we should be doing here to make life easy for the admins? TB

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Please register for the Berlin hackathon - June 1-3, 2012
by Sumana Harihareswara 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon. It's 1-3 June and registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with hotel/hostel, just mention it in the registration form. https://wmberlin.eventbrite.com/ This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising, primarily talking about Gadgets, the switch to Lua, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs. 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! Details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012 Thanks to Wikimedia Germany for hosting and coordinating this event. (Venue still to be determined.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Blocking of hacking attacks IP addresses?
by Danny B. 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

In my 404 log I often see various hacking and spamming attempts looking for known website weaknesses. I would like to propose to totally block such IP addresses from accessing Toolserver. What do you think about such approach? Kind regards Danny B.

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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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