Wikitech-l July 2014

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Help Please! mangled special characters after import
by Aran 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Hello, I've recently had a server disaster and had to recover my wiki from backup dumps. But after importing all the special characters are mangled causing many links to be broken and pages that have special characters in the titles are missing! Here's an example of a page with many broken characters and red links showing for pages with special characters in the titles. http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/2014_Holiday_in_Brazil I'm sure this must be able to be fixed because when I look at the DB content from the shell by selecting content from the text table all the special characters are rendering with no problem...? I noticed that the mysqdump command was using --default-character-set=latin1 which may be a legacy setting now? Help much appreciated Thanks a lot, Aran

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Mentors participating in GSoC Reunion (was Re: IMPORTANT: GSoC & OPW mid-term evaluations)
by Quim Gil 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Hi On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > If you want to be a Wikimedia delegate at the Google Summer of Code > Reunion, apply before the end of June at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors > Only Siebrand has signed up at the wiki page so far. No other GSoC mentors interested? -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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translatewiki.net compromised: server reinstalled
by Siebrand Mazeland 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

This is an email to shell account holders on translatewiki.net and to wikitech-l, so that you are informed. Today at 08:10 UTC Niklas noticed that the translatewiki.net server had been compromised. We saw some suspicious files in /tmp and a few processes that didn't belong: elastic+ 22862 0.0 0.0 2684 2388 ? S 04:53 0:00 /tmp/freeBSD /tmp/freeBSD 1 elastic+ 31575 0.0 0.0 2684 2388 ? S 06:38 0:00 /tmp/freeBSD /tmp/freeBSD 1 elastic+ 31580 16.7 0.0 90816 724 ? Ssl 06:38 16:26 [.Linux_time_y_2] We gathered data and looked at our recent traffic statistics. We drew the following conclusions: - Only the Elasticsearch account had been compromised. The intruder did not gain access to other accounts. - The attack could be made because the Elasticsearch process was bound to all interfaces, instead of only the localhost interface, and dynamic scripting was enabled, because it is required by CirrusSearch (CVE-2014-3120). - A virtual machine was started, and given the traffic that was generated (about 1TB in the past 4 days), we think this was a DDoS drone. The process reported to an IP address in China. - A server reinstall is the right thing to do (better safe than sorry). The compromised server was taken off-line around 10:00 UTC today. Actions taken: - Bind Elasticsearch only to localhost from now on: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145262/ - Reinstall the server Actions to be taken: - Configure a firewall to only allow expected traffic to enter and exit the translatewiki.net server so that something like the added virtual machine could not have communicated to the outside world. - As a precaution, shell account holders should change any secret that they have used on the translatewiki.net server in the past 7 days. We are thankful to the people in the MediaWiki security IRC channel and Henri Salo for helping us with data gathering on the attack, and how to proceed. We have re-installed the translatewiki.net server, and are currently re-importing the databases. We expect to be back online in a few hours. Once we come back online, we'll still have to rebuild some non-critical meta data stores, like populating the search database. Cheers! Siebrand

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Search status and final rollout dates
by Chad 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

We're in the home stretch with replacing the old search engine. I'd like to thank our many thousands of beta testers who opted in and provided their feedback throughout this process. You might have noticed we've been rolling it out as the primary search engine on progressively more wikis. We're down to 11 of the largest wikis based on search traffic and we've put together a timeline for these: commons - July 7 eswiki - July 9 nlwiki - July 14 plwiki - July 16 ruwiki - July 28 svwiki - July 30 zhwiki - August 13 dewiki - August 18 frwiki - August 20 jawiki - August 25 enwiki - August 27 It's basically 2 per week starting Monday with a weird break for Wikimania. Unless we find any last minute blockers I think we'll be done by the end of August :) If you find anything that's still a problem in Cirrus at all, even if it's minor and not a blocker please let us know in Bugzilla. -Chad PS: Please feel free to forward this to appropriate other venues

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(no subject)
by Thomas Mulhall 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Hi we are upgrading jquery cookie from an early alpha version of 1.1 to 1.2. Please start upgrading your code to be compatible with jquery cookie 1.2. There is just one deprecations to notice and that is $.cookie('foo', null) is now deprecated. And replace it with Adding $.removeCookie('foo') for deleting a cookie. We are slowly upgrading to version 1.4.1 but one step at a time because it is. A ja our change and removes a lot of things.

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Upgrading jquery cookie
by Thomas Mulhall 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

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Upgrading jquery cookie
by Thomas Mulhall 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

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MW-Vagrant improvements at the Zürich Hackathon
by Arthur Richards 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Just wanted to send out an update on the progress we made around MW-Vagrant improvements at the Zürich Hackathon. Our primary goal was to make some key production services available in MW-Vagrant in order to make local development/testing easier/more reliable. We made some excellent headway, focussing on a few key services: SSL, Varnish, CentralAuth/Multiwiki. SSL: I spent a majority of my time focussing on this and received a lot of support/help from Ori. There is now an 'https' role in mw-vagrant which when enabled, will allow you to access your devwiki on port 4430 (forwarded to 443 in Vagrant). There is one outstanding patchset which will make it possible to use $wgSecureLogin in MW-Vagrant: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132799/ Varnish: This is proving to be much more difficult than anticipated, however some progress was made and work is ongoing, spearheaded by Andrew Otto. The plan is to set up varnish VCLs for mw-vagrant similar to what is set up for text varnishes in production, with a frontend and backend instance running in vagrant. Andrew is in the midst of refactoring the production varnish module, to make it usable in Vagrant. CentralAuth/Multiwiki: Bryan Davis, Chris Steipp, and Reedy spent a lot of time hacking on this, and we now have support for multiwiki/CentralAuth in Vagrant! There is still some cleanup work being done for the role to remove kludge/hacks/etc (see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132691/). Also of significant note, Matt Flaschen created a mw-vagrant iso which can be packaged on USB thumb drives, making it possible to set up mw-vagrant without a network connection. There is still some work to be done here to create a one-click installer as well as updating documentation. Matt got this done before the hackathon, and we brought a bunch of USB sticks imaged with the iso, which was instrumental in getting a bunch of folks new to mw-vagrant up and running at the hackathon. This was particularly useful during Bryan Davis's vagrant bootcamp sessions. I believe Katie Filbert from Wikidata did some mw-vagrant work at the hackathon as well, although I'm not clear on the current status. Katie, can you let us know where things were at with what you were working on? All in all it felt like a very fruitful hack session, and we're closer than ever to having a ready-to-go developer instance that mimics our production environment. Big thanks to everyone involved in making our work successful. -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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tool for quickly uploading 10000 images with description
by Yury Katkov 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Hi everyone! Does anyone knows about the tool that can help to upload a lot of files and create the page for every file with a given description? I'd say that it should be a maintenance script since for some reason the API upload works pretty slow. I saw UploadLocal Extension but it's too manual and it doesn't work well when the amount of files to upload is very large. Cheers, ----- Yury Katkov

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[Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on July 9, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Hello, A quick reminder that the Language Engineering office hour is happening in a few hours (1700 UTC) on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the original announcement, including local time and agenda. Thanks Runa Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: July 09, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140709T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:41 PM Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on July 9, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org [x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, July 09 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent activities around the Content Translation project[1] and taking questions. Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour. Thanks Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: July 09, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140709T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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