Thanks for the detailed investigation Dan. There must be some oddity in the
way I'm creating my xml (Python generated, then edited in JEdit for any
tweaks, should be 'utf-8') so I'll continue plugging at it.

I keep missing your emails and finding them under my spam folder, no idea
why.

Fae


On 1 May 2014 20:04, dan entous <[email protected]> wrote:

> characters
> ----------
> i have a test xml i use to test titles and added the characters you
> mentioned. i had no problem uploading the test xml file. here are 2 results
> that seem to indicate that there should not be an issue with the characters:
>
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:The_%22King%E2%80%99s_of_Hungary_-_%C3%86%22_holding_c%C3%B6uncil_%26_in_his_tent_%26_on_the_battl%C3%A9field_-_Froissart%27s_Chronicles_(Volume_IV,_part_2)_(1470-1475),_f.84_-_BL_Harley_MS_4380.jpg
>
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Dice_players_-_Lo_L%C3%ADbro_de_Multi_B%C8%A9lli_Mirac%C3%BCli_(14th_C),_f.9v_-_BL_%C3%85dd_MS_22557.jpg
>
>
> example record
> --------------
> i tested the example record locally and after about 2 minutes i got the
> message:
>
> The file you submitted was too large. original URL:
> http://link.nypl.org/2Qqj_oLvSbWRwPxtB1rq_wZ evaluated URL:
> http://link.nypl.org/2Qqj_oLvSbWRwPxtB1rq_wZ
>
> my wiki was set to a limit of 100mb, so i up’d it to 1000mb.
>
> i also switched to the new preview branch i have in gerrit,
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127839/, for bug
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63864, which no longer
> downloads an image to the wiki during the preview step. instead it
> downloads all mediafiles in a background job.
>
> the job successfully completed after 3 minutes and the image was viewable
> in my local wiki.
>
> i also took a look at our wikitech instance and saw that you had uploaded
> the image there without issue. i also repeated the uploaded but got the
> message:
>
> “This file did not pass file verification.”
>
> this seems to have been thrown by UploadBase.php, so i'd have to look
> further into that issue. but i also suspect that commons may have just
> timed out on the download of the image in the preview step. this type of
> error seems similar to bug 63864. i just need someone to +2 the patch i
> made so that we can test the new preview step on the beta cluster.
>
>
> with kind regards,
> dan
>
>
> On May 1, 2014, at 18:35 , Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Fæ, 01/05/2014 14:59:
> >> Instead, a good example of characters giving a problem is the file at
> >> [1]. This caused the GWT run to halt but was successfully loaded once
> >> I changed the "Æ" (ae ligature) character in Ægean to a simple "A".
> >> The only cause of this failure must have been the character, which is
> >> allowed in the mediawiki software.
> >>
> >> Links
> >> 1.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_map_of_the_islands_of_the_Agean_Sea,_together_with_the_island_of_Crete,_and_the_adjoining_isles._NYPL1630716.tiff
> >
> > Thanks, this gives you clear steps to reproduce and makes a valuable bug
> report. Please file. :)
> >
> > Nemo
> >
> >
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