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Changes to rules
by Mike.lifeguard 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I notice a recent clarification of the rules[1], however this was not mentioned on this list, nor toolserver-announce-l. Would an admin mind saying why this was necessary? Perhaps relevant that the rules can and do change at a time when there's discussion of changing them with respect to licensing source code :) - -Mike [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/w/index.php?title=Rules&diff=3199&oldid=2315 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktrilAACgkQst0AR/DaKHt6AgCgkQAEpN/tvGbp/tr2c9fXS96b TigAoKh7ujZ7Ba0WzEqwVrEUDDPNHoGy =dhzP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Developer Meet-Up in Berlin, April 14-16
by Daniel Kinzler 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi all Wikimedia Germany invites all MediaWiki developers, Toolserver users, Gadget hackers, and other people interested in the technical side of Wikimedia projects to come to Berlin for a Developer Meet-Up on April 14.-16. Last year's meet-up in Berlin was a great success, and we hope to make it even better this time! This year we want to focus on structured (meta) data, search, and community building. The future of the Toolserver will also be a subject. The dates are set, but it's not clear yet if we start full throttle on Wednesday the 14th or if we have just an arrival event on that date and a full day on Friday the 16th instead - this depends on venue arrangements that are not sorted out yet. Note that registration in advance will be required - a website will be set up for this soon, we will announce it on blogs and mailing lists. On that Friday, April 16., the Wikimedia Chapters and Board start their convention in Berlin. This will be a great opportunity to meet, to discuss interesting topics, to network and to exchange ideas and thoughts! Wikimedia Germany will host the event, so we will organize the venue, the hotel(s), some fun things to do in Berlin, food & drinks and lots of other things - and there might even be a party at the c-base again... See you in Berlin! -- Daniel Kinzler

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Changes to expired accounts web hosting
by River Tarnell 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, In the past, when an account was expired, it was still possible to access its public_html. This has now changed. Any HTTP requests to an expired account will return an error page indicating that the account has expired. The files in public_html are not deleted, and will become accessible again if the account is ever un-expired. - river.

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Re: [Toolserver-l] Changes to expired accounts web hosting
by Tim Alder 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

I like the idea of Daniel Schwen. We could learn a lot if we could look into the scripts of the other users and could reuse parts of it. Every editor on wikipedia publish each content under free licences, so why should this be on toolserver not so? I wouldn't publish all scripts to the world but they should be readable for all users with a toolserver account. So I would like to ask: Is somebody against this way? And what are the reason? So than we should ask at the next expired account mail which free license everybody like and ok. Greetings Kolossos

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Shutdown of stable
by River Tarnell 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi, The stable server will be shut down permanently in two weeks, i.e. on the 18th. This follows a 4 month migration period for moving tools. Any tools that have not yet migration will be inaccessible after that date. (However, any remaining files will be backed up.) hyacinth (the current stable server) will be repurposed as a redundant/fast database server. - river.

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pgcount.wikimedia.de
by Conrad Irwin 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi all, Glancing through Wiktionary's javascript it still seems to be using a pagecounter that hits http://pgcount.wikimedia.de/index.png?ns=" + pgcountNs + "&title=" + encodeURI(wgTitle) + "&factor=" + counter_factor + "&wiki=enwiktionary"; every 40 requests. Now, it seems that pgcount.wikimedia.de does not reply to such requests. Should I disable this javascript or does it still do useful things? Conrad

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DNS aliases for fast database servers
by River Tarnell 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Hi, There are now DNS aliases for the fast database servers, under fastdb.toolserver.org. For example, if you currently connect to enwiki-p.db.toolserver.org, connect to enwiki-p.fastdb.toolserver.org instead to use the fast server. (For now only enwiki has a fast server, but we will be adding them for other clusters in the next few weeks.) - river.

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Interwiki-Bots
by DaB. 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Hello all, while I was under the shower today, I got the following weird idea: We have several interwiki-bots on the toolserver, that do more or less the same, but by different ts-users. Some bots run old versions of the software, some stop for unknown reason and were never restarted (properly because the ts-user left) and some just work how they should. Often I read in the wikimedia- projects (most time in my homewiki dewp of corse), that there are problems with a bot (because it add a wrong interwiki-link again) and the users don't know how to contact the bot-owner and what they should do. So my idea: Amalgamate all interwiki-bots (in the same programming-language of corse) into 1 multi-maintainer-project. The advantages would be, that we would use lesser resources, the bot-maintainer could work together, they could use a database together, it would be easier for wikimedia-project-user to contact us (in jira for example or with a mailinglist), if something is wrong, it would be easier to contact the bot-software-maintainer and so on. Any thoughts about that? Good idea or a "you had too much hot water in the shower"-idea? Sincerly, DaB. -- wp-blog.de

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Unplanned downtime, 2009-02-01
by River Tarnell 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, There was some unplanned downtime on the HA cluster today causing an outage of the platform. The downtime was caused by an upgrade of the software on one node. We will investigate the cause of the failure before upgrading the other node. Due to the nature of the NFS failure, you may need to restart any background or screened programs you had running. - river.

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Reboot of nightshade
by DaB. 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Hello all, for an important kernel-update, nightshade will reboot around 23 o'clock UTC. The downtime should be short, but all running programms on nightshade will of corse stop. So please make sure that they restart after the reboot or move them temporary to willow (caution. solaris! ;)). I can give no link to a jira-ticket, because jira is down since yesterday. I will send a email after the reboot to inform you all. Sincerly, DaB. -- wp-blog.de

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