Wikitech-l August 2014

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Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of August 4th
by Greg Grossmeier 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Hello! Welcome to the special "Get ready for Wikimania!" edition of the roadmap and deployment update email. This next week, in honor of Wikimania (and due to fact that many will be traveling, conference'ing, etc), there will be no planned deployments. Of course, special circumstances may require an exceptional deploy, but we will not, for instance, be rolling out/updating to new MediaWiki versions. Take a look at the upcoming (post-wikimania) items at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Next_month Any questions, as always, feel free to ask, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Brief Labs outage
by Ori Livneh 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

(Apologies for cross-posting.) We've been noticing an issue with lock-ups on the beta cluster application servers for the past few days. It happens about once or twice a day. It just happened again on both application servers, and I'd really like to try and get to the bottom of things this time. I'll give up and force a restart if I haven't figured it out by 6:30 UTC, about an hour from now. Please accept my apology if this is disrupting your development or QA work, and ping me on IRC if you need Beta back up urgently.

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Spam filter rules on the Wiki Loves Monuments Mailing list not working
by Cristian Consonni 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Hi all, (not really sure this is the right place, please redirect me if needed) Togheter with Effeietsanders I am administering the wikilovesmonuments-l mailing list[0]. This list is receiveing huge amounts of spam messages (quick stat: we are talking about 20 messages per hour). We have tried to implement some spam filter rules following this[1] (a page which I have edited myself) but basically we were unable to get any effect of sorts. Here's the two spam filtering rules I have created: * Rule 1: X-Spam-Score: [+]{2,99} * Rule 2: X-Spam-Score: [*]{2,99} I have added both rules with "+" and "*" to be sure, and I have specified the numbers (more or equal than 2 and less or equal than 99) because in my first try the rule with just {2,} (i.e. "more or equal than 2") was not working. The fact is that the solution didn't work out in the end (we were still holding in our moderation queue lots and lots of messages with an high spam score) and so we are changing the default policy for the list about non-member messages from "Hold" to "Reject" (If somebody can make a case for "Discard" over "Reject" please do so). This was quite frustrating, but we were unable to fix the problem is some other way. I am sharing this to make sure I wasn't making some sort of stupid mistake in the rules. I would also like to have an opinion about "Reject" vs "Discard" as a policy for non-members messages. Thank you. Cristian [0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Fighting_spam_in_mailman

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