Wikitech-l May 2005

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DNS on Paris squids
by David Monniaux 26 May '05

26 May '05

Yesterday evening, Med did a routine restart of squid on chloe and squid wouldn't restart. It turned out DNS wasn't working. Actually, DNS wasn't working on all 3 Paris machines. 1) DNS input was firewalled, apparently 2) DNS servers were set to servers in Florida, through ppp tunnel (didn't work) So I temporarily set up the machine to: 1) not firewall stuff 2) Used lost-oasis DNS servers

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What happened to E-mail notification on test.leuksman.com ?
by Thomas Gries 25 May '05

25 May '05

Has anyone news about this ? It stopped working during the last couple of days. Clowns playing on the software ? T.

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function errors....
by james 25 May '05

25 May '05

hi, is it possible for someone to help me fix these php errors im getting, at the top of 99.99999% of wiki pages; Warning: gmdate() [function.gmdate]: Windows does not support dates prior to midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970 in ...\media\includes\GlobalFunctions.php on line 1094 Warning: gmmktime() [function.gmmktime]: Windows does not support negative values for this function in ...\media\includes\GlobalFunctions.php on line 1081 thanks

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date and cache
by Anthere 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi Three times now in about a week or so, some spanish editors reported me a weird bug, that makes them see the wrong date on some pages or on recent changes. See the last comment http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthere&curid=521&dif… I know there was a bug a while ago about this, but as far as I understood, it was fixed. Still... there is still something going on and people still regularly see a wrong date. A couple of personal observations... ... I also noticed in the past few days a huge issue with cache. Three times yesterday, when I edited meta, for a new page, after I saved the page, there was nothing on it, and I had to reload to see the new page. That also happened to me on the Foundation website yesterday, when I tried to create a redirection from "board" to "board of Trustees". After saving, the page was empty. Weirder is what is currently happening on the village pump on the french wikipedia (though part of it might be due to Paris servers). I connected anonymously yesterday, and I got the 14th of may page. I reload several times, forced reload... and still got the 14th of may. I ended up login, I still had the 14th of may, but after one simple reload, I finally got the 17th. I *think* there is a problem here. I do not know what it is, but if I have the idea to reload and reload and login and reload again to finally get the right page, I do not think readers or recent editors think of doing this. Any ideas ? Anthere (looking for the future, not so much on the past) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

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RE: [Wikitech-l] Re: [Fwd: [Foundation-l] Malicious user javascript]
by Domas Mituzas 25 May '05

25 May '05

> Indeed not, but it lowers the bar to admit a rather greater number of > Skript Kiddies. See the exploit script that's currently knocking about. Just my 0.02$, you don't need the User:javascript functionality to run your own javascript on site. Trying to do any development here would be waste of time. Cheers, Domas

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edit Main Page?
by james 25 May '05

25 May '05

Is it possible to edit the main page? if so - how? I ask this, as the width of the page displayed is far too big, and also, it wants to include stuff from today on the page - but cant display it as it doesnt exist; Today's featured article {{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 24, 2005}} Selected anniversaries {{Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May_24}} And also - the news gets out of date very quickly

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: URGENT: blocking open proxies
by Neil Harris 24 May '05

24 May '05

Timwi wrote: > Wouter Steenbeek wrote: > >> >> We must take an emergency measure: block ALL open proxies. Only that >> can prevent the guy from constantly returning and practicing his >> infamous deeds. But we don't know for heaven's sake how to do that. > > > I'm sure that any lists of open proxies he has available, will be > available to you. Try to Google for them and block all their IPs. > > Unfortunately, that's all the advice I can give. I'd hate to see an > active project go to waste because Wikimedia folk are too slow to > react, or because the software doesn't have adequate tools to fight > organised vandalism. How many active vandals does it take for a > smaller Wikipedia to receive attention and assistance? :/ > > Timwi > > The software _does_ have the ability to use an active open proxy scanner: BOPM <http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=U&start=8&q=http://blitzed.org/bopm/&e=10313>, I think. This is currently switched off, since it generated many complaints from less-than-clueful people who had "personal firewall" software and interpreted its checks as "hacking" attempts. However, if this active scanner was to be enabled on li: alone, I would imagine that the amount of complaints would be negligible. Perhaps this might help the li: administrators? -- Neil

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IP list of spammers
by Milos Rancic 24 May '05

24 May '05

Is it possible to make some general IP list of spammers which can be shared through all (Media)Wiki sites? I am not talking about vandals, problematic users, etc; just about spam. This should be the similar method as it is implemented for email.

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Images download
by Ben 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi, I download successfully mysql database on http://download.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ But I can't find the place to download images. Where can I found it ? Thanks Ben

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Enotif and updated marker in phase3 testwiki
by Thomas Gries 23 May '05

23 May '05

Dear all, can someone tell me, why the Enotif and garish updated-marker mechanism as described in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enotif#Update_marker seems to be totally broken in the current http://test.leuksman.com ? For those, who want to restore the working version of ENotif/EConfirm with MediaWiki 1.5alpha1, please refer to http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enotif and the download section of it. The recently discovered http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2126 (temporary password cannot be used twice) will be repaired in a couple of hours or you can fix it by hand, see solution in that bugzilla. Tom

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