Hello Stefan
And Daniel Baur (DaB) and Daniel Kinzler (Duesentrieb)
are working on a
solution (WikiProxy?). They have been really helpful but they didn't tell me
when it's expected to be completed earliest :-<
There are two problems: Replication of Article Text is broken, because
it now uses "external storage". WikiProxy exists for quite some time
now, and resolves this problem, though not very efficiently. It's good
enough for fetching a couple of hundred pages, but should not be used to
process *everything* - for now, we are stuck with XML dumps for that.
The second problem is that *all* replication is broken for Databases at
the Seoul cluster (esp. Japanese and Chinese wikis). DaB is working on a
solution, which he told me will go into a first round of testing in the
next few days.
[...] I
wouldn't have any problem making a system with
more resources than toolserver available for public use... But my
request there has also been ignored.
That's my dilemma too.
Uh, let me get that straight... you (GMaxwell) could donate a box? That
would be great! Please talk to DaB about this, he's our contact to the
e.V. My idea would be to have separate boxes for a) public, web-based
tools, and b) another one for running massive queries on.
Why nobody - especially the superadmin - is able to
drop a line here is
contrasting to the sponsoring money de.Wikipedia obviously gets. It's seems
to be part of the problem of claim and reality of Wikipedia.
I agree that this is frustrating, and I too have the impression that no
one really feels responsible for resolving the problems that exist. I
hope we can improve communication in the future.
I'm giving _one_ weeks time to the colleagues here
to solve the technical
problem of mirroring. To my humble point of view this is still finally an
organisational problem...
Uh, what?! I'm sympathetic to your complains in general, but WTF?! You
are *giving* us one week? Or what? You know, there's no *right* to be
able to use the toolserver, or to have it available at all. If you don't
like it, help to fix it, or go away.
Btw: both major issues I described above are based on technical
problems. Yes, they can be overcome, but it's not simple. It takes time
and effort, which someone will have to donate. How about you?
Regards,
Daniel
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