The last database dump was made 18 days ago. Brion does this normally
once a week and he is on another assignement till tomorrow.
Does this mean that Wikipeia loses 18 days of edits if a diskcrash
occurs, or are there other backups as well? If SQl dumps are all we
have, would it not be better to schedule an automatic dump each night?
Or does this bring Wikipedia to a halt for a prolonged time?
Erik Zachte
A few requests for people in high places to consider.
Item 1
User:Amillar (216.99.203.72) is blocked from firewallinit. He has said
sorry. Can he please be unblocked? Further details at
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk%3AAmillar
Item 2
The two recent server crashes were excessively prolonged due to the lack
of available users with the appropriate access. Can Erik Moller please
be given root access? Can I please have a non-root account on pliny? (I
already have one on larousse)
Item 3
:Could not connect to DB on 130.94.122.197
:Host 'larousse.wikipedia.org' is blocked because of many connection
:errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'
Can max_connect_errors please be increased to, say, a billion? It is
currently set to 10. This has happened at least twice. There's probably
an underlying hardware problem, but this workaround would greatly reduce
downtime, while we're hunting down the root cause.
-- Tim Starling
Timwi wrote:
>I'm sure you're all aware that Wikipedia is currently down..
I have been able to browse de, es, fr and others all day. I know this because
the /English/ version of Wikipedia is down and I checked the others to see if
they were having problems too.
The English Wikipedia may be the largest but it isn't the only version of
Wikipedia.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
> Could not connect to DB on 130.94.122.197
>
> Host 'larousse.wikipedia.org' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'
>
> If this error persists after reloading and clearing your browser cache, please notify the Wikipedia developers.
I'm sure you're all aware that Wikipedia is currently down and output
this error message, but I would like to point out that the e-mail
address linked to is "wikidown(a)bomis.com". Now, I haven't tried this
e-mail address just now, but I did last month, and it bounced back then,
and I asked for this error message to be changed to contain a valid
e-mail address, but it's the same one, so I guess I have reason to
believe it is still bouncing.
Can someone change this e-mail address to one that works? Or is there a
particular reason it needs to be one that bounces (give the user the
impression we're listening, but don't receive heaps of complaints during
each and every outage? ;-) )?
Greetings,
Timwi
I keep getting this DB error over the past 30 min or so:
Could not connect to DB on 130.94.122.197
Host 'larousse.wikipedia.org' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'
If this error persists after reloading and clearing your browser cache, please notify the Wikipedia developers.
I would just like to say, that I really hate the right-click editing.
Mostly because I can no longer right click on headings that are also
links to open them in a new page. Could we make this a feature you can
turn off in the user preferences?
--
Michael Becker
So, hi. I'm having some problems with installing Wikipedia.
Is it an unreasonable layout to do something like this?
{Document Root}/wiki <- .phtml here
/upload <- nothing here (at first)
/style <- .css here
/usr/local/share/php4 <- .php files here, except...
/etc/wikipedia <- LocalSettings.php, Language*.php here
The docs seem to imply that this is a good setup, but the install.php
installer wants to write everything to $IP, which is apparently slang
for "where everything goes". Many of the libraries also have code
like:
include_once ("$IP/SomeOther.php");
...kind of making it hard to move files around. Gar. I'm a long-time
Web developer, and short-time Wikipedia code user, and I'm pretty
unhappy with the idea of dropping _everything_ into the
externally-served "{Document Root}/wiki", especially files with
passwords and whatnot.
I also figure config files like LocalSettings.php or Language*.php
should be separated out to keep them from getting stomped on.
Anyways, I've got all that stuff working, and I'd like to know if I
can submit a patch that divides the installed files into Web stuff,
PHP libraries, and config files?
~ESP
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
1 Formalized algorithms
2 Implementing algorithms
1 Example
2 History
3 Classes of algorithms
4 See also
5 References
repeat numbers...
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_of_the_SARS_outbreak
TOC looks like that:
1 November 2002
2 February 2003
3 March 2003
4 April 2003
5 May 2003
6 June 2003
7 July 2003
Now it looks like day dates, while in fact these are
month dates. Some different formatting should be used,
for example:
1. November 2002
2. February 2003
3. March 2003
4. April 2003
5. May 2003
6. June 2003
7. July 2003
But these won't work in German ;)
So maybe to have TOC without numbers (unless numbered headers
are chosen in prefs) is the right solution.