Wikitech-l February 2004

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Possible bug: "The file /wiki/$ARTICLE" could not be found
by Arvind Narayanan 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hi, When I clicked on a link to [[Indian Institutes of Technology]] I got a popup saying: "Alert: The file /wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology could not be found. Please check the name and try again later" or something like that. Repeated several times, same result. Didn't get this error on any other page. After a while I clicked on some link which redirected to [[Indian Institutes of Technology]], and it worked. Then I tried the original link and it worked too. Some cache problem? Arvind -- Its all GNU to me

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Linux 2.6.3
by Brion Vibber 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Experimentally we've loaded 2.6.3 kernel packages onto coronelli, one of the squid caches. If it dies completely, we can swap the IP back to browne to take over. If coronelli reboots, it should revert to the 2.4.x it had before (hopefully). If things seem positive and more performant, we'll upgrade the others in turn. I'm using the test packages for Red Hat 9 from: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/ -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Johnny H. = Michael?
by wiki pedista 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hi, can somebody with access to the logs check if a user in the Spanish wikipedia named Johnny H. is in fact a banned user named Michael? Another user made the accusation, but offered no proof. AstroNomo/AstroNomer __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

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Code at the head branch seems to be broken
by Nick Pisarro 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Is there more to be done? The following code in Parser.php starting at line 165 has a problem. The 'else' needs a left brace following it. But even fixing that there are execution errors.--Nick Pisarro $doesexist = false ; if ( $doesexist ) { $sql = "SELECT l_from FROM links WHERE l_to={$id}" ; } else $sql = "SELECT cur_title,cur_namespace FROM cur,brokenlinks WHERE bl_to={$id} AND bl_from=cur_id" ; } $res = wfQuery ( $sql, DB_READ ) ;

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spammish iptables
by Jimmy Wales 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

I guess coronelli is setup differently than the other machines? In any event, a billion trillion messages per second are flashing on the console there. Second, it turns out to be not true that these messages are only on the first console. I can hit alt-f2, etc. to get to new consoles, but on all the machines, all this stuff flashes by anyway. This is only a problem when I'm physically standing here in the colo, but it sure sucks.

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Hang on to your hats
by Jimmy Wales 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

I'm going to be taking down some of the servers in turn, to unplug them and put them on the power port, so that we'll have developer access to power cycle without having the delay of contacting me. I'll take each one down and back up in turn, so as not to disrupt things any more than absolutely necessary. The db server is already pugged in so it won't be that one. --Jimbo

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Faster parsing
by engelsAG＠t-online.de 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

"Erik Moeller" <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> schrieb: > The MediaWiki FT search has locking issues. It's very fast for a normal > wiki, but for a huge one like Wikipedia it tends to get in a deadlock > state. That's why we have to disable it on Wikipedia. Some other queries > could also be made faster. Many of our queries have been optimized now and > every single one should eventually return results with a response time of > milliseconds. Does this mean that we will NOT get full text search back soon? That would be a shame. If it is indeed the case that with another DB server we will still have locking problems with searches, we might want another architecture, with a dedicated search (plus several other functions, such as special pages and SQL queries, perhaps even Whatlinkshere) machine, which gets its database updated only once per second/minute/hour/whatever rather than in real time. Andre Engels

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moreri is down
by Gabriel Wicke 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Moreri seems to be down, no ping, ssh, http. -- Gabriel Wicke

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Mapping complement to Wikipedia?
by Erik Zachte 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

There is a Historical Event Markup and Linking Project http://heml.mta.ca/heml-cocoon/ They try to address issues mentioned here. There is demo of an animated map there as well. They choose SVG as the medium which seems a good choice. I know there are (were ?) problems with SVG viewing on Mozilla, but that will be fixed, I'm sure. Erik Zachte

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New magic variables?
by Nick Pisarro 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

I notice that the latest wikipedia home page does inclusions by using the {{msg:...} "transclusion" variable. It seems to me that inclusions like this should come from the $wgMetaNamespace or other namespace, not the MediaWiki namespace. The MediaWiki namespace is really for running the software, and should not really contain specific user modifyable site data. Perhaps we need a new set of variables for these operations. How about: {{incl:article}} # include from the default namespace {{incl:namespace:article}} # include an article from 'namespace'. {{incl:language:namespace:article}} {{inclnw: ...} } # use the nowiki tag {{repl: ...}} # new version of {{subst:}} This provide a more general mechanism without making obsolete the old one and providing a migration path for the type of include used by Main_page. It also uses the same naming convention as the [[...]] markup. Nick Pisarro

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