Repost:
I haven't seen any objections about the page names, so could somebody export
the output of
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilisation_de_fonds
and
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geldbeschaffung
to, respectively
http://wikimediafoundation.org/Mobilisation_de_fonds
and
http://wikimediafoundation.org/Geldbeschaffung
Very important note: These pages, for now, will NOT be protected, so please do
not link them from anywhere important or seemingly official (such as the
sidebar or current wiki donation pages). I expect that these pages will go
through some more basic development before they are protected and go live
(for example; some explanation needs to be added that at least in France and
Belgium new PayPal users need two credit cards and some type of access
number).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Penguincomputing just told me that the production lead time on the new
server will be 7-10 days from now. So I would anticipate that the new
server will be shipped, oh, I guess next Wednesday or so. Possibly
Jason will install it next Friday.
At that time, he'll also be attempting -- yet again -- to successfully
finish the upgrade to the existing machines. The problems we've had
there are mysterious and complex, and I guess Jason or Brion could
explain it better than I can. To my knowledge, though, we don't yet
have a solution, but possibly I will be buying some more parts (power
supplies, different RAM?) to help resolve that.
When all is said and done we should end up with 2 Dual Athlon MP 2800
frontend webservers with 4 gig of RAM each, and the Dual Opteron 246
DB server with 4 gig of RAM as well.
For load balancing across those two machines, we have a number of
options, but my guess is that just serving en from one machine and
everything else from the other will be an acceptable first pass.
When the mood strikes us, we can use just about any kind of simple
machine to do iptables based load balancing. I've done this before,
and it works amazingly well. Probably a simple $1500 machine would be
overkill for this. Maybe Bomis can dig something up to give to us, a
hand-me-down from the ongoing Bomis upgrade program.
The Opteron is going to have 5 73 gig 10,000 RPM SCSI drives in a RAID
10 configuration, which means as I understand it, data striping on 2
disks on one controller channel with mirroring on the other controller
channel, and then there will be 1 hot spare drive in the machine.
So that's performance and redundancy.
Anyhow, the logical capacity is 140 gig.
The machine is shipping with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64
preloaded. We don't have to keep that, although it'll be super easy
to just keep it and I personally prefer that we do. But if there's a
huge outcry to switch to Debian or Redhat, I'll defer to the most
active developers, although we should be aware that installing a
different OS is likely to slow down our installation by a day -- or
more, if there's any kind of disaster.
--Jimbo
The big boss server has been ordered and should be arriving at Jason's
house within a few days. When it comes in, he'll drive down to San
Diego and install it.
I am going to a wedding, leaving tomorrow morning and returning Sunday
but probably not really logging in until Monday.
I *should* have some kind of network access via a borrowed laptop and
dialup, but you know how that is...
I can try to mediate any huge disputes, but of course a wiser course
would be for peace and joy to prevail everywhere simultaneously so
that there's no major disputes.
I'll have my cell on me at all times, of course, and so the people who
have that number and call and request me to do something in an
absolute emergency.
--Jimbo
I finally got around to doing a proper test of my wfMsg() enhancement.
When using memcached, it's fast enough for some applications (say, low
traffic wikis), but I'm not satisified that it is sufficiently fast for
our site.
On my Celeron 466, it takes about 215 ms to load the messages needed to
display an article. That's not much better than loading from the small
local database (~280 ms). In comparison, doing it the old way took
somewhere around 10-50 ms. I'm not sure of the exact figure, because the
timer is not sufficiently accurate.
Instead I think I might try rolling all the messages into one memcached
object and retrieving that. Failing that, I will try shared memory.
I've also written a simple memcached command line client and improved
the profiling code slightly.
-- Tim Starling.
Hello,
my first post on this list, I hope this is the good place to post my
question...
So,
I'm interresting in occitan, i saw there is an occitan version of
wikipedia on http://oc.wikipedia.org but it looks to use an old version
of the wiki and it's not fine readable. I want to communicate on
wikipedia in occitan but i think it will be a better idea to wait that
oc.wikipedia.org use the new version of the wiki and have a better
graphism. I can do some work to make this but i don't know how and what
to do and who can help me.
Thanks you for reading me and helping.
Gnu_Thomas
PS: you can answer in english or in french
I would like admin priviledges on
ia. la. and vo.wiki, they are my
most usual hangouts, although I'm
also a contibutor at the simple.wiki
the quote.wiki and others... The
interlingua wiki has grown a lot lately
and I've been encouraging others
to actively support it among the
various email lists devoted to that
language. The vo.wiki needs some
attention and I'm willing to put forth
some effort there also. The la.wiki
has had a lot of good feedback on
its homepage looks and I'm very
glad of the progress there.
For now I need IA.wikipedia.org,
LA.wikipedia.org, and VO.wikipedia.org
admin access.
Any objections?
If not could someone, maybe Brion
look into this and let me know?
cheers,
Jay B.
[User:ILVI]
Thank you for your help! I am able to log in with the new password,
but the "new password" emails are still not arriving.
The emails are still being rejected by our server:
reject: RCPT from larousse.wikipedia.org[130.94.122.199]: 450
<apache(a)localhost.localdomain>: Sender address rejected: Domain not
found; from=<apache(a)localhost.localdomain> to=<abatko(a)cs.mcgill.ca>
proto=ESMTP helo=<localhost.localdomain>
You need to set the proper domain name.
> Strange, it worked for me. I just changed your registered email
> address to my address, clicked "mail me a new password", and the
> new password arrived instantly. I'll forward the email to you.
>
> The email address you have registered with Wikipedia is indeed
> the same one you used to send this post.
>
> -- Tim Starling.
http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/usace/
"The Baghdad Museum Project is a public-private partnership dedicated
to preserving, protecting and further cultivating the cultural
heritage of the people of Iraq through multi-sector and
multi-disciplinary dialogue and exchange."
John Simmons of the project has approached us asking for assistance
setting up a MediaWiki for their project. I don't have the time
myself, but I did offer them that I would make a pitch for them here
on wikitech-l.
Perhaps one of the developers will find their project interesting
enough to lend them some support?
At the present time, all of their work is being done on a voluntary
basis, as they are seeking at this point to develop a seed of their
project to potentially leverage into private or public grants of
support. So, they can't pay you.
--Jimbo