Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions
On Oct 21, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Well, perhaps I'm unfairly comparing the RFP's density to that of the last two colo contracts I saw, but I'm not sure I have a copy of those; I will take a look, and abide until them. Jay, the idea here is to drum up bids from parties that meet the minimum criteria set in the RFP itself, as opposed to laying out the specifics for the agreement itself. That's a longer process involving the team and legal, once we choose a partner. :) Thanks. --Ken. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions
On Oct 21, 2013, at 8:03 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I added links to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_servers so that we can hopefully get that page updated one day. Thanks - definitely something to tackle once we complete the Tampa migration and new DC buildout. Transparency and a well documented network infrastructure are high on my personal priority list. :) --Ken. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions
The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Operations team is seeking proposals on the provisioning of a new data-centre facility. After working through the specifics internally, we now have a public RFP posted[1] and ready for proposals. We invite any organization meeting the requirements outlined to submit a proposal for review. Most of the relevant details are in the document itself, but feel free to reach out to myself or the list should anyone have any questions. Please, feel free to forward this link far and wide - have colleagues, contacts or friends in the data-centre sector? Then please, forward it on! :) Thanks! --Ken. [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/RFP/2013_Datacenter ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions
Hi Rupert, We'd be open to any jurisdiction that provides an appropriate legal foundation for our operations, as well as meeting our technical and topographic needs. However for this specific proposal, we're looking for a US-centric location that can serve as a backup should our Ashburn location fail, among other uses. Thanks. --Ken. On Oct 18, 2013, at 4:27 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, would you be open to a data center outside the US in future, and if no, why not? Rupert Am 18.10.2013 22:05 schrieb Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org: The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Operations team is seeking proposals on the provisioning of a new data-centre facility. After working through the specifics internally, we now have a public RFP posted[1] and ready for proposals. We invite any organization meeting the requirements outlined to submit a proposal for review. Most of the relevant details are in the document itself, but feel free to reach out to myself or the list should anyone have any questions. Please, feel free to forward this link far and wide - have colleagues, contacts or friends in the data-centre sector? Then please, forward it on! :) Thanks! --Ken. [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/RFP/2013_Datacenter ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Operations team announcements: Ryan and Leslie
Hello! I'm extremely pleased to announce that we've had two promotions within the Technical Operations team! Leslie Carr has been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer (Networking). As many of you know, along with Mark, Leslie has been instrumental in securing preferred rates and contracts with with connectivity providers and vendors on the networking side of our infrastructure - in a world where human connections are every bit as important as topographic ones, Leslie has maintained a vast network of contacts to help ensure that we're receiving competitive pricing, fair peering, and a plethora of other perks that come part and parcel with maintaining solid relationships in the networking arena, while also taking point on many of the technical aspects of our network infrastructure as well. We're lucky to have her, and I look forward to working with her as the team completes the setup of ULSFO and begins work on our next data-centre project. Ryan Lane has also been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer. Ryan has served as the lead on the Labs project, a component of our infrastructure that has become increasingly critical to projects both within WMF engineering (with Beta Labs), as well as with various volunteer projects (via Tool Labs). Ryan is about to head up the migration of this infrastructure from Tampa to Ashburn as part of our plan to sunset the Tampa data-centre. Additionally, Ryan has also played a key role in several non-labs-related projects, including most recently our HTTPS-as-default project, as well as work on integrating git-deploy into the mediawiki deployment pipeline. Ryan's work has been invaluable, and this promotion well-deserved. Thanks! --Ken. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [wikimedia #5841] etherpad.wikimedia.org downtime due to upgrade
Thanks, Alex! --Ken. On Sep 27, 2013, at 6:29 AM, Alexandros Kosiaris akosia...@wikimedia.org wrote: FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Core operations via RT core-...@rt.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:01 PM Subject: [wikimedia #5841] etherpad.wikimedia.org downtime due to upgrade To: akosia...@wikimedia.org I am scheduling a downtime for etherpad.wikimedia.org on Monday 30/09/2013 in order to upgrade it to the latest released version. The downtime is scheduled to last one (1) hour and will start in 09:00 UTC. We will be upgrading from 1.0 (released 2 years ago) to 1.2.11 (released 3 months ago). Package has already been created and will be made available on apt.wikimedia.org during the upgrade. Hopefully a lot of the bugs we have witnessed that cause problems in etherpad.wikimedia.org will be resolved. -- (ticket has been created) -- Alexandros Kosiaris akosia...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time
On Aug 26, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Some people may have placed sensitive info in the pads, assuming some level of (misguided) privacy since the pages weren't indexed. We're not planning on doing dumps or even exposing an index. To further clarify, we'll be keeping a dump in case there's some incredibly critical information that was inadvertently pasted into a pad despite the many and various warnings about the ephemeral nature of the service - but as Ryan said, we have no intention of indexing or even investigating this dump unless necessary, and would definitely not release it as a whole for the reasons mentioned. Thanks. --Ken. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time
Rob H. has been doing this manually for us, and we've essentially been ensuring our pads are in wikitext to assist with the drop-in ease of this process. Sounds like a fun project, though, once we get etherpad-lite up to a current rev :) Thanks. --Ken. On Aug 23, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Sumana Harihareswara date=2013-08-23 time=16:16:21 -0400 Thanks to Mark Holmquist for maintaining http://etherpad.wmflabs.org for the past long while. It is going down in 2 weeks, so please retrieve your text. I recommend that you: * go into your browser history * search it for etherpad.wmflabs.org * go to each of those pads and copy-and-paste the content someplace, preferably on a public wiki, even if it's just in your userspace * replace the content of the Etherpad with a link to the wiki page you've moved the text to Has anyone made an automatic etherpad - wiki script yet? I'd love to have a list of etherpad urls in some txt file I maintain of important pads/pads I want sync'd on a wiki page for public consumption. I guess the text file might need to have the relationship of pad to wikipage. My duckduckgo searching wasn't successful. Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ___ Labs-l mailing list lab...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] We need to talk about AbuseFilter on mobile
I was actually bit by the abuse filter directly, as I was setting up a new page on Meta, using a newly created account: 1. Because the page included an external link, I needed to enter a CAPTCHA. 2. The AF then threw a warning that my changes appeared harmful, citing new user youtube, amp;c 3. I was then thrown back to the CAPTCHA, repeat endlessly. :) There was no way forward. Thanks. --Ken. On Aug 19, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Most of the popular decline errors seem to be related to removal of large chunks of text, this sounds suspicious... Bug 52077, possibly? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening
On Aug 17, 2013, at 1:33 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: hi faidon, i do not think you personally and WMF are particularly helpful in accepting contributions. because you: * do not communicate openly the problems * do not report upstream publically * do not ask for help, and even if it gets offered you just ignore it with quite some arrogance Rupert, please don't call out or attack specific people. We're all on the same team, and I can assure you that Faidon, as well as Ryan and the rest of the team, are as eager as anyone else to provide more security and crypto capability to the WMF projects. Our goal is to share the sum of all knowledge with every human being, and right now, HTTPS means cutting out more than a few of them, so we need to determine a solution. We're not standing still, but it's not a simple problem with a simple answer, and it will take time. Further, Ops in general, and Faidon in particular, routinely report issues upstream. Our recent bug reports or patches to Varnish and Ceph are two examples that easily come to mind. Faidon was (rightly) attempting to restore service first - we have a lot on our plates, and I assure you that if a specific bug had been identified, we'd report it - as we have for many other tools we use. We all want the same things, and we're all on the same team here. Let's please stick to the issues at hand, and presume that we're all working in good faith to resolve these issues. Thank you. --Ken. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again
I believe Greg G. has reached out to the Office IT team, who have the ability to open a ticket against GMail (since wikimedia uses GMail for org email). Thanks. --Ken. On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:15 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 August 2013 21:57, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Really? I've not once had that message. As best I can tell, it is affecting EVERY lists.wikimedia.org mailing list, with the possible exception of the checkuser mailing list. I do not know what is different about that one. Does anyone have a contact at GMail? (I mean, there's making a blog post, but that'd be a pretty extreme last resort ...) - d. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] How's the SSL thing going?
On Jul 31, 2013, at 3:01 PM, James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Time to start adding a random amount of extra packets with each request? :) This is what freenet does, but I think supporting SPDY/HTTP 2.0 [1] will help in this regard as well, as it essentially pipelines requests (so you wouldn't be able to discern which packets were article body, for example). --Ken. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_2.0 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] How's the SSL thing going?
On Jul 31, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: There was the lofty notion of including all images, CSS/JS/whatnot as CDATA elements in the page itself, for browsers that support it. That would get around the one issue, but still allow size-based fingerprinting, especially since most users will follow links within the site, so the search space gets much smaller. Random package size increase, as mentioned, might help there. This is part of why support and rapid adoption of protocols that allow for multiplexing (SPDY/HTTP2.0) are important - they would make the fingerprinting process significantly more difficult. --Ken. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member
Welcome to the team, Sean! :) --Ken. On 2013-06-24, at 11:17 AM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle joined us today ( 24th June, 2013). Among his duties, Sean will be attending to all aspects of the database layer including management, monitoring, design, capacity, performance, and troubleshooting. Sean comes with vast experience in database technology and development background with a specific focus on MySQL and MariaDB. He has held senior roles in database support, database administration, and technical writing with various companies including MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems, and SkySQL Ab. He also has fingers in a few non-profit and open-source projects scattered around the net. Sean hails from Queensland, Australia and while he travels around frequently, he inevitably always flee back to his down under home. He confessed being forever distracted by all things geek and technology related though he can also be spotted behind a telescope on starry nights and with nose in a book when the cloud rolls in. To quote him, I am excited to be joining the WMF, an opportunity which I see as an 11 on the awesomeness scale of 1 to 10 ! Please join us in welcoming Sean! CT Woo Ken Snider ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
