Re: [MediaWiki-l] Slow and unusable Wiki after upgrading to 1.19

2012-08-11 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Yecheondigital yecheondigi...@yahoo.com wrote: Recently I tried upgrading to mediawiki 1.19 on a shared server (hosted by Dreamhost). After upgrading to 1.19, my site was so slow that it was barely operable. Pages would rarely successfully load and most would eventually turn into a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] DPL 3rd party Extension

2012-08-11 Thread Jan Steinman
From: Tom Hutchison t...@hutch4.us ... this brings up a discussion about Extensions flagged as a security risk and why the extension's code is still available for download? I've experienced the converse: an extension being removed because someone flagged it as a security risk, only

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Slow and unusable Wiki after upgrading to 1.19

2012-08-11 Thread Benjamin Lees
Your CGI processes were being killed because your user was using too much memory. (When a CGI process is killed, the Apache connections will time out and give a 500 error.) Adjust the number of processes that are spawned (which you might or might not be able to do, depending on how much fiddling

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to distribute a Mediawiki project?

2012-08-11 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 8/8/2012 9:43 AM, Yaron Koren wrote: Since your project includes Semantic MediaWiki specifically, SMW actually has a repository for just such a thing This is awesome. I would like to see something like this take off. I wonder if we could use it for distributing templates and gadgets from

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to distribute a Mediawiki project?

2012-08-11 Thread Yaron Koren
Hi Mark, Well, the Gadgets extension will have its own distribution system, as part of the 2nd version of ResourceLoader: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Version_2_Design_Specification#Gadget_Manager As for distributing templates, it depends on what you mean by something like this.