Hoi,
Are "edit groups" like the one I refer to part of the ongoing saga? If so,
it does not work for weeks now.
Thanks,
GerardM
https://tools.wmflabs.org/editgroups/b/QSv2T/549063133648593592/
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 19:07, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]>
wrote:
> As you may have been aware, we've been working on changing how MediaWiki
> stores "actors", meaning the user account or IP address that performed the
> edit, logged action, and so on. Instead of having user ID and name fields
> in each revision (rev_user+rev_user_text), log entry
> (log_user+log_user_text), and so on, we're storing the ID and name in a
> central "actor" table and referring to them by the actor ID from other
> tables (log_actor and so on).
>
> We've been writing to the new fields and tables since mid-December 2018,
> and have back-populated them for old revisions, log entries, and so on.
> We're about to start changing Wikimedia's production wikis to start reading
> the new fields instead of the old.
>
> For the most part wiki users shouldn't notice any changes, however if you
> notice something being newly slow or incorrectly displaying the user,
> please let me know.
>
> For users of the Data Services replicas, such as Toolforge, the views do
> still include the old columns and they will be simulated even after
> MediaWiki stops writing them. But, for the non-compat views, this *will*
> change in the future as it recently did for the comment columns, so you may
> want to begin your migration process soon rather than waiting.
>
> MediaWiki developers should make sure code accessing user fields makes use
> of the ActorMigration class that was introduced in MediaWiki 1.31.
>
> You can watch https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188327 (and any
> subtasks) for more information on the deployment process.
>
> Note that accesses to the actor table may be slow, as are accesses to the
> comment table. Improving that situation is being tracked at
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215445.
>
>
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> Senior Software Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
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