Hello, fellow Apiary lovers!
Cindy has done a lot of work behind the scenes to get WikiApiary
upgraded to 1.39 and we've moved the worker bees back to Wikimedia Cloud
Services so that they don't compete for CPU and bandwidth with the
website itself.
As a result, I've brought wikiapiary.com back online.
We'd like to ask for help from other people now.
Since a big part of the problem with WikiApiary is database timeouts,
Cindy and I are wondering if those of you with experience with SMW and
ElasticStore would help think changing the back end from SQLStore to
ElasticStore would help.
Of course, we would need some help with this. Ideally, some brave soul
would volunteer to do the conversion, but, if that isn't possible, a
step by step cookbook would be nice.
Finally, we think that the site's appearance could use some work.
Cindy suggested switching to Chameleon (and has it installed as an
option), but there is some general tidying that needs to be done.
Have a beautiful day!
Mark.
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Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
717-271-1084
Hello, I recently translated all the translatable pages on the WikiApiary website to Swedish and realised that the software didn't allow me to publish external links. I got around this by simply not adding the needed external link. If anyone could add these external links for me or fix the bug that prevents me from adding external links that'd be appreciated.
This affected the pages Main Page, User:Bumble Bee and WikiApiary:About.
/Sabelöga
Greetings, Apiary folks!
This weekend, I addressed an overwhelming number of deprecation notices
by deploying a fix to the Variables extension and I signed up for a
free-tier account on MailJet (thanks for the pointer, Jesús Martínez).
* Massive unsubscribe
This morning, I woke up to a large number of unsubscribe messages
because of bounces on the WikiApiary mailing list. I've verified that
there are still people subscribed to the mailing list and asked the
listadmins mailing list about this.
* Mailjet
Because of complaints about mail tracking, I switched to using
MailJet's SMTP relay. As an added bonus, their free tier allows us to
send more email and will hopefully work.
I did notice that they have an option to see who have read emails. The
only way I know to implement that is with mail tracking beacons that
were a problem with the previous relay. The previous relay munged
email sent through their relay to accomplish this. I haven't had a
chance to check this yet. If you have gotten any emails from the wiki,
it would help if you could inspect them to see if they have been
altered by MailJet.
* Variables extension
WikiApiary uses the Variables extension. Since we upgraded to 1.39,
the runJobs cron job has been sending me notices about this once a
minute. Because I spent time fixing the email this weekend, I also
addressed the deprecation notices that the Variables extension was
sending. Everything seems to be working, but I'm not sure about the
changes I made.
If you can check pages on the wiki, that would help.
Mark.