After some days before Brion mailed some stats of the new server load going
down, of course there comes the question: Can we reduce the time e.g. the
SpecialPages Maintenance are off service?
Unfortunatly the Pages are not reachable at the after work hours in Europe,
and a lot of work waits because the users can't access the pages during the
time they can spend in wikipedia.
Of course, I expect this not before the work Lee will do the following
week, but I hope someone can calculate the load and evaluate if it will be
possible.
--
Smurf
smurf(a)AdamAnt.mud.de
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It used to be that the Wikipedia php-files could be found at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wikipedia/phpwiki/newcodebas…
However, when I look now, none of the files has been edited in the past five
weeks, although there has been discussion, and even announcements, on this
list. Why?
* There has really been changed nothing in the last 5 weeks
* Everytime something was changed, someone forgot to change it on SourceForge
as well
* The PHP-code of Wikipedia is now elsewhere
* The PHP-code of Wikipedia is not openly available any more
* Something else?
Andre Engels
Searching (as well as moving) on WikipediaNL results in a database error.
Error message:
1016: Can't open file: 'searchindex.MYI'. (errno: 145)
Andre Engels
Our mailing list archive currently seems to be only indexed up to January
by Google, which, if I remember correctly, is the same time Google
temporarily stopped indexing Wikipedia articles due to a robots.txt
mishap.
Would it be possible to change the robots.txt so that our mailing lists
archives are fully indexed again? Since mailman itself has no search
feature, having them on Google would help a lot in locating past threads.
Of course, Hfastedge announced some time ago that he would look into a
search engine patch for mailman, that would also be neat.
Regards,
Erik
I was planning to use this weekend to update the wikis to the latest
software, and do the database updates required for that. There are
also some remaining problems from the server change that I need to
take a look at.
I'd like to strongly suggest that we put the software into feature
freeze for at least a week until all the wikis are fully functional
with the latest software, and they can all be updated from the
scripts in the distribution. From that point, maintenance should
be much easier and not the ad-hoc affair it is now.
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
In CVS:
If an article with less than 500 characters is to be deleted, at most the
first 150 characters are automatically suggested as a deletion reason.
This should automate the frequent practice of pasting the text of nonsense
articles into the deletion reason.
If an article with a history is to be deleted, a warning is inserted,
linking to the article history (so as to avoid accidentally deleting a
vandalized page with a valid history).
If a blanked article with a history is to be deleted, and the next earlier
revision contains less than 500 characters, at most the first 150
characters are automatically suggested as a deletion reason. Nonsense
pages are often blanked, just checking the current revision for nonsense
is not good enough.
New texts in Language.php for this feature:
- excontent, exblank, exbeforeblank, historywarning
Regards,
Erik
When I try getting an OGG file (in this case, [[Image:Tri.ogg]]
([[Media:Tri.ogg]], whatever you want to call it, it's still
http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/b/b6/Tri.ogg ), it gets this back for a
HTTP head:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 05:16:55 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.1
Last-Modified: Sat, 17 May 2003 04:05:28 GMT
ETag: "8772a-3061-3ec5b508"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 12385
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain
^^^^^^^^^^
Is this just something else that we forgot to turn on on the new server?
Or has it been giving this kind of a Content-type all along? It sure is
ugly when my browser tries to actually show it as text, either way. :p
--
John R. Owens http://www.ghiapet.homeip.net/
I tried. I tried to warn them. But it all happened, just the way I
remembered.
--Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair
Some of the mailing lists are getting, and their admins regularly
rejecting, a fair amount of spam.
I'm going to see if I can get SpamAssassin set up to cull some of the
more wretchedly obvious stuff out before it gets to mailman.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)