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tcsh?
by Rich Wales 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Is "tcsh" available as a login shell? This is my personal preference, but it doesn't appear to be installed. I see "csh" there, but it's not the same. Is there any possibility of getting "tcsh" installed? Rich Wales richwales(a)toolserver.org

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A new tool request - find a translator
by Ryan Kaldari 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Could someone write a tool that allows me to search for the most recently active users on a certain project who speak a certain language (or combination of languages) natively? The user language categories seem to exist on most projects, so it seem like you could use those: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_ja-N Ryan Kaldari

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Problem with randomly missing user database
by Derrick Coetzee 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hi all, I have a script here: http://toolserver.org/~dcoetzee/contributionsurveyor/ which accesses a user database u_dcoetzee. Example result page: http://toolserver.org/~dcoetzee/contributionsurveyor/survey.php?user=Ernest… About half the time when loading this page, I receive this error message: Unknown database 'u_dcoetzee' Source is here: http://toolserver.org/~dcoetzee/downloads/contribution_surveyor.tar.gz This is a new issue and the code has not changed at all, so I suspect some kind of database/server configuration error. In particular, I suspect the requests are being load balanced across two servers, only one of which has correct access to my user database. Can anyone shed light on what's going on with this? Should I file a bug (if so where)? Thanks. -- Derrick Coetzee User:Dcoetzee

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Tool for Countdown to 20 Million Articles Needed
by Daniel Kinzler 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi all! Apparently, we are approaching 20 Million pages worldwide (by some count. I have no idea what that actually includes). Does anyone here know of a nice counter/countdown tool we could use to show this off? Like the nice counter we had für the billionth edit last year, perhaps. I'm aware that this number can never be accurate, and there are several valid definitions of "page", etc. I'm just looking for something that is "close enough" to show off. Does this exist? Or would anyone like to write it? Cheers Daniel PS: please CC catrin in your replies, she isn't on this list

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/ on willow was full — postmortem
by DaB. 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hello all, between midnight and 11 o'clock (both time-valuies are estimates and UTC) willow was unusable, because the root-partion of willow had run full by a tool which flooded the user-log (I messaged the tool-runers seperatly already). I cleaned some old audit-logs and moved the big user-log out of the way. I also rebooted willow to make sure that the space was freeed and that all crashed services run again. I should now usable again. If not, please fill a bug. For details you can take a look at [1]. Sincerly, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1079 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Wiktionary table of contents
by Lars Aronsson 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Has anybody compiled a list of all entries in Wikitionary? I know there are XML dumps for page titles, e.g. http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/20110827/enwiktionary-20110827-a… But I was thinking on a dictionary entry level, e.g. the word "snigel" is available on en.wiktionary as a Norwegian Nynorsk entry, and on fr.wiktionary and pl.wiktionary as a Swedish entry. This could be expressed as a table with 3 columns: Entry Site Language snigel en nn snigel fr sv snigel pl sv An additional table could indicate the date when each Site's XML dump was used to update this large table of entries. Is anybody doing this already? -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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Invitation to Wikimedia hackathon: New Orleans, USA, 14-16 Oct.
by Sumana Harihareswara 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

I invite the toolserver community to the Wikimedia and MediaWiki hackathon happening 14-16 October 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon We're getting together a wide variety of contributors -- including tool, extension, and gadget writers -- to participate, give feedback, test, and hack together. If you write software that uses the MediaWiki API, or runs on the Toolserver, I want you there! :-) At the event, MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers will be working on Wikimedia's gadgets/extensions/tools support, authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and general training and hacking. And we'll improve and discuss the Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia with awesomeness. The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute, and is an opportunity to spend time with other MediaWiki developers & ops engineers, write beautiful code, and learn about the latest developments. We'll write code together, discuss the software, and hold little workshops. If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011, we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon#Attendees And if you can only come with financial assistance (to defray the costs of flight and hotel), please let me know by Monday the 5th so I can note that and start making requests. (And please spread the word!) Thanks and best wishes. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Study on bots in the (German) Wikipedia
by Robin Fink 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Dear all, first of all thank you very much for providing us access to the Wikimendia Toolserver for our research. Our study was concerned with the phenomenon of bots in the Wikipedia. We published a working paper on this in German but provide an English one-page summary: http://www.wiso.tu-dortmund.de/wiso/ts/Medienpool/ap-soz28-summary.pdf A shorter and revised version of our paper will be published in: Soeffner, Hans-Georg (Ed.) (2012): Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen. Verhandlungen des 35. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Frankfurt am Main 2010. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. We appreciate any questions and comments on our work. Kind regards Robin Fink and Tobias Liboschik Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

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Index on image table by MIME type?
by Ilmari Karonen 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

While tweaking my MIMEStatBot[1] to handle random Query Killer attacks better, I got to thinking... Would it be practical to set up a local index on the toolserver for (img_major_mime, img_minor_mime, img_media_type) on the image table for commonswiki (and maybe others too)? Such an index would hopefully cut the runtime of my weekly queries from hours to seconds or less. It might also enable other tools to make better use of the MIME type info stored in the database. Of course, populating and maintaining such an index would consume some time and storage space. But I wonder if it might not be worth the tradeoff. What do the TS admins think? [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MIMEStatBot -- Ilmari Karonen

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Fisheye is working again
by DaB. 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hello all, today we repaired Fisheye (our viewer for Subversion). If you see that a repository there is not updating for more then 1h, then please (re-)open a Bugreport at JIRA. Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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