Re: [Toolserver-l] filearchive table

2007-08-05 Thread Platonides
Gregory Maxwell wrote: Fantastic. I already have a tool up using it, it's not user friendly.. it's really just a tool meant for other tools to use. http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/cgi-bin/deletedimage.py?hash=f85b9e4a40434e664209f2a8e2ff106b4f636db8\wiki=enwiki hash= sha1 hash of the

Re: [Toolserver-l] Stable server, a few questions

2007-11-22 Thread Platonides
Simetrical wrote: On 11/22/07, Platonides wrote: Aye, but the carefully maintaned stable toolserver tools should be efficient, too (if the task can be efficiently done, of course, the criteria for inclusion would be greater). In which case they should be moved to the main servers

Re: [Toolserver-l] A blog comment.

2008-06-11 Thread Platonides
I'm Ccing Wikitech, i suggest we follow this thread there. Nikola Smolenski wrote: (thread about interwiki bots at toolserver) Coincidentally, yesterday I released a MediaWiki extension which, if accepted on Wikimedia projects, may make interwiki bots much less busy. See

Re: [Toolserver-l] Account Extenting, was Account Expanding

2008-06-23 Thread Platonides
James Hare wrote: Heh, there was an account called LottoBot? In my younger days I wrote a LottoBot... in mIRC script. This seems perl :) http://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Benutzer:Lottobot/Skript As it was working yesterday, DaB. will probably get an email asking to renew it soon :) Or perhaps

Re: [Toolserver-l] Dump-Mail-Service

2008-07-13 Thread Platonides
Stefan Kühn wrote: Hello! At the moment I and some other users of the dumps show every day/week/month at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ for a new dump. I use the dump of 10 different languages for my projects (Wikipedia-World, Template-Tiger, Persondata), so it is really work. I hope

Re: [Toolserver-l] Dump-Mail-Service

2008-07-13 Thread Platonides
Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 wrote: Platonides ✍: PS: You know you can subscribe to RSS feeds for the xml dumps, do you? I was just already in the middle of scraping /backup-index.html to generate categorised Atom feeds. Where are the feeds you're speaking of? Filename-rss.xml in the latest/ folder

Re: [Toolserver-l] no more thumbnails (access denied to thumb.php)

2008-09-06 Thread Platonides
DaB. wrote: I'm done for first. You can find my programm at http://toolserver.org/tsthumb/tsthumb . If you find any error (experiments with chinese-named pictures would be nice), please report it to JIRA. Sincerly, DaB. Looks i'm (un)lucky. I got a java.lang.NullPointerException on

Re: [Toolserver-l] question about performance/getting webpage content

2008-11-24 Thread Platonides
...) to download it and then read it as a normal file. 2. If I've questions about such stuff, am I right here? Otherwise, sorry for bothering you. :-) Cheers seth Yes, this is a good place :) Platonides ___ Toolserver-l mailing list

Re: [Toolserver-l] s3 replication is halted

2009-01-05 Thread Platonides
Simon Walker wrote: How long are the binlogs kept for on Wikimedia servers? Surely it would be possible to take a dump now, import it to s3, start replication, then import the same dump onto the new server, and let it catch up from a month of replag? Of course, this wouldn't be possible

Re: [Toolserver-l] s3 replication is halted

2009-01-06 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Platonides: Move mysql data files to the new box i usually try to avoid that when splitting a database, since it means the innodb data file is much larger than it needs to be (yarrow has both s1 and s3, but the new server will only have s1). it's also a good

Re: [Toolserver-l] New hardware ordered

2009-01-17 Thread Platonides
greater. Some caveats: oldimage table has 'unexpected' entries. Don't make assumptions such as a filename can't be twice or there will always be a file. Of course, the code is available. If I can be of help... just ask :) Yours, Platonides ___ Toolserver

Re: [Toolserver-l] Betawiki translations

2009-02-04 Thread Platonides
Daniel Kinzler schrieb: Marcin Cieslak schrieb: I think we will be better of with flat files (for example in PHP or java properties format or maybe) versioned in some version control, similary as MediaWiki is doing. The problem is that each user has his/her own svn repo. Pushing messages

Re: [Toolserver-l] WikiMiniAtlas

2009-02-13 Thread Platonides
Lars Aronsson wrote: But features like this WikiMiniAtlas (or all the services that rely on s3 replication) are too impressive and useful to rely completely on the voluntary efforts of single individuals. How does having several programmers per project fix s3 replication?

Re: [Toolserver-l] Next level of stabilization

2009-02-28 Thread Platonides
Lars Aronsson wrote: I really want to get better geo tagging going in the Swedish Wikipedia. To this end, WikiMiniAtlas was activated some weeks ago. The activation went just fine. But the underlying database is not up to date. This is because Stefan Kühn is rewriting the script that

Re: [Toolserver-l] PGP-keysign at the tech/chapter-meeting

2009-03-31 Thread Platonides
There's another way to do a key-signing, faster than 1-to-1. You have everyone have a list and each one presents itself, giving their fingerprint. I guess you'll have a brief introduction at the beginning where everyone presents himself? If you were to say I'm Daniel (aka as DaB), the evil

Re: [Toolserver-l] Problem

2009-06-11 Thread Platonides
Stefan Kühn wrote: Maybe a guru for perl can make a look at the script. I hope anyone have a idea. Stefan Then you should provide the script. Are you using non-blocking sockets? (you shouldn't) ___ Toolserver-l mailing list

Re: [Toolserver-l] new toolserver home page

2009-06-12 Thread Platonides
Daniel Kinzler wrote: Hi all I have written a small script that pulls the content of the toolserver home page http://toolserver.org/ from our wiki. It's not live yet, but you can test it at http://toolserver.org/newindex.php. The page's content is maintained on

Re: [Toolserver-l] new toolserver home page

2009-06-12 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Platonides: Why use a script? why create a whole new skin when we can just use a script? - river. You make it sound hard, when creating a good script to scrap the wiki, filter the page and present it will in fact be harder

Re: [Toolserver-l] Little Project Idea

2009-06-27 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: K. Peachey: What might be nice is a little tool where people can enter a few article names in a box and click a button and have it produce the static html dumps of the desired article(/s). before anyone runs off to implement this, please remember that the Toolserver

Re: [Toolserver-l] Little Project Idea

2009-06-28 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Simon Walker: I presume he meant download.wikimedia.org i think it's very unlikely we'd run something like this on the static file server. - river. *If* there's such a need, it would be worth to take some CPU time from the servers doing dumps to fulfill it

Re: [Toolserver-l] commonswiki status

2009-08-17 Thread Platonides
DaB. wrote: Hello, Am Montag 17 August 2009 21:44:28 schrieb Carl Fürstenberg: Perhaps there would be an idea to initiate an other dev to be able to do such work. it is not this easy as you think. For taking a dump, a db-slave of the wm- cluster has to taken away from the cluster. That

Re: [Toolserver-l] commonswiki status

2009-08-17 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Platonides: Wouldn't that have required making a dump of the db to reimport it at the new cluster? no. s4 was created by taking existing s2 slaves and removing all databases which were not commons. then commonswiki was dropped on the remaining s2 servers

Re: [Toolserver-l] commonswiki status

2009-08-17 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Platonides: They should have kept a s2 slave so toolserver could get a dump from it. why? we already have a dump from an s4 slave. - river. Reading DaB message, I thought the problem was taking a dump, since it was harder to take a s4 slave out of rotation

Re: [Toolserver-l] commonswiki status

2009-08-18 Thread Platonides
DaB. wrote: BTW: If the wm-server-admins hadn't drop commons from s2, we wouldn't need a dump ;) Sure. What about restricting drops so they aren't replicated? That would make toolserver resistant against some datalosses at tampa (including careless sysadmins ;) ). However, a subsequent create

Re: [Toolserver-l] change of regular expression behaviour in rewrite scripts

2009-08-19 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Martin Peeks: Just out of curiosity, why does the toolserver use a webserver which so few will be familiar with, rather than apache/etc? we previously used Apache + mod_suphp, until CGI PHP became too slow. we explored several solutions and eventually settled on ZWS.

Re: [Toolserver-l] change of regular expression behaviour in rewrite scripts

2009-08-19 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Platonides: I understand the problem was the process creation needed by mod_suphp (that's also why the switchserver was tried). that is correct. How does Zeus run the scripts as different users? it starts a FastCGI process as the user when a request comes in. when

Re: [Toolserver-l] status

2009-08-26 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: for those who don't read journal.ts.o, a write-up of the outage is available at https://confluence.toolserver.org/display/tech/Platform+outage+2009-08-24 - river. This issue also highlighted the problems of having the NFS server as a single point of

Re: [Toolserver-l] How to determine if script runs in the toolserver cluster?

2009-09-02 Thread Platonides
Tim Landscheidt wrote: Hi, is there any reliable way to determine if a script is run in the toolserver cluster, i. e. can make use of the database servers Co., without checking for hostname being wolfs- bane, nightshade or names-to-come? TIA, Tim Check if it can connect to the

Re: [Toolserver-l] How to dump databases from mysql to, public_html

2009-10-04 Thread Platonides
Tim Alder wrote: Hello, try /home/fuzkabir/public_html instead of /$home/fuzkabir/public_html . What works for me is: mysqldump u_kolossos_databaseX tableXXX XXX.sql Greetings Kolossos mysqldump u- username -p password `u_fuzkabir`.`university` /$home/fuzkabir/public_html;

Re: [Toolserver-l] More advanced watchlists

2009-11-03 Thread Platonides
Lars Aronsson wrote: ==Watch a category of articles== 2010 is election year in Sweden, so I want to keep an eye on all articles in category:Swedish politicians, in recursive levels. I now do this on a weekly basis, using CatScan,

Re: [Toolserver-l] trouble with HTTP uploading to the toolserver

2009-11-13 Thread Platonides
Ryan Kaldari wrote: Hello all, I just got my account set up on the toolserver and I was playing around with trying to get multi-file flash uploading working. Unfortunately, I get the following error each time: HTTP_ERROR - The file upload was attempted but the server did not return a 200

Re: [Toolserver-l] Reminder: move your projects off stable -Geohack

2010-01-02 Thread Platonides
Magnus Manske wrote: On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tim Alder wrote: Hello, perhaps this would be a good moment to transfer Geohack to a regular mediawiki-extension on the main servers. I hear this was also the plan of brion vibber before he go. Who we need to ask now for this? Yes,

Re: [Toolserver-l] PHP upgrade

2010-01-04 Thread Platonides
Trevor Parscal wrote: On 12/30/09 3:22 PM, River Tarnell wrote: Hi, PHP was upgrade to 5.3.1. At the same time, the PHP PDO MySQL module was enabled. This should have no impact on users (unless you want to use PDO). - river. Now we need 5.3.1 on the cluster! PHP 5.3.1 is broken.

Re: [Toolserver-l] Interwiki-Bots

2010-01-09 Thread Platonides
DaB. wrote: Hello, Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 23:18:13 schrieb Nakor: what about putting TS in it's name to point out it runs from the toolserver? I not spoke of the name of the bot, but of the name of the multi-maintainer- project. For the bot-name I would suggest ts-interwikibot or

Re: [Toolserver-l] Interwiki-Bots

2010-01-13 Thread Platonides
Andre Engels wrote: It just seems silly to run several interwiki-bots on the toolserver, instead of cooperating to run one. Still, there's the matter of what it means to 'cooperate to run one'. Would that mean that there's only a single interwiki bot process running? That can only work if

Re: [Toolserver-l] Changes to expired accounts web hosting

2010-02-04 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Hi, In the past, when an account was expired, it was still possible to access its public_html. This has now changed. Any HTTP requests to an expired account will return an error page indicating that the account has expired. The files in public_html are not

Re: [Toolserver-l] Changes to expired accounts web hosting

2010-02-04 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Platonides: It doesn't seem to have changed. gmaxwell account expired time ago. However, its files can still be accessed http://toolserver.org/~gmaxwell/election_analysis/2008/GRAPH_3_totals.png # acctexp gmaxwell The account gmaxwell will expire on Tuesday, 01 June

Re: [Toolserver-l] commonswiki updates

2010-03-08 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Platonides wrote: Maybe some file-transfering magic can be done to add the index in the other dbs by copying it from rosemary? No, file-copying doesn't work with InnoDB. You can only copy the full contents of all databases on the server

Re: [Toolserver-l] Server switch for s3/s4/s6, Monday morning UTC

2010-03-29 Thread Platonides
Mashiah Davidson wrote: As you remember, we've experienced issues with memory during last few weeks. All that issues correllate with situations when both, me and lvova ran the bot together (each requesting for up to 4 GB for temorary data) and both worked on relatively small languages. In such

Re: [Toolserver-l] Server switch for s3/s4/s6, Monday morning UTC

2010-03-29 Thread Platonides
Mashiah Davidson wrote: I guess it is not possible to reduce the limit in the bot and keep bot's performance at least on the same level at the same time. You know administration well, I know the application domain of connectivity analysis. I really think that the only acceptable solution

Re: [Toolserver-l] Toolserver countdown

2010-04-13 Thread Platonides
emijrp wrote: Hi all; The counter page is generated every 5 minutes, using the last data available in site_stats table for every wiki project. So, the editrate can change every 5 minutes, I think that it is a good estimation. Regards! [1]

Re: [Toolserver-l] Page view stats

2010-04-13 Thread Platonides
Frédéric Schütz wrote: River Tarnell wrote: It's not available in the database yet, but that's something we're looking at doing. If anyone else has a particular reason to need this data, it would help if they could describe it, so we can decide how to format the data, and how detailed it

Re: [Toolserver-l] Why JIRA is down? To River

2010-04-23 Thread Platonides
Tim Landscheidt wrote: BTW, the warn.png included on this page seems to be broken: | [...@passepartout ~]$ display warn.png | display: IDAT: CRC error `warn.png' @ png.c/PNGErrorHandler/1404. | display: Corrupt image `warn.png' @ png.c/ReadPNGImage/2898. | [...@passepartout ~]$ Tim

Re: [Toolserver-l] How much wiki-data is too much?

2010-05-15 Thread Platonides
Conrad Irwin wrote: In the event that I can't publish these files here, is there another Wikimedia-related place I could? Conrad Maybe you could convince Tomasz to run your script on dumps.wikimedia.org ___ Toolserver-l mailing list

Re: [Toolserver-l] User account expired?

2010-06-03 Thread Platonides
Nicolas Dumazet wrote: I made a script to generate such an html page. Updated by a daily cron task. http://toolserver.org/~nicdumz/expired.html (I dont see any issue with listing publicly such information? If there's any, let me know/delete the html ...) Regards, Your list begins with

Re: [Toolserver-l] Exposing data about deleted revisions

2010-08-09 Thread Platonides
Mike.lifeguard wrote: On 10-08-08 04:02 PM, John Doe wrote: How about requiring a password/code to go along with rev_id in order to use the tool (similar to the move to commons process? Delta Yes, I suppose that's possible. Can we use Basic or Digest auth to protect parts of our web

Re: [Toolserver-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-24 Thread Platonides
I suppose you have already read about doing requests single threaded, the maxlag parameter and so on. Make sure you use a User Agent that clearly leads to you in case it gives problems. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org)

Re: [Toolserver-l] enable gz compression

2010-11-03 Thread Platonides
Peter Körner wrote: Hi We're serving commonly used js libs under http://toolserver.org/~osm/libs/ but the toolserver is serving out the js files uncompressed [1]. GZ Compression reduces the size of openlayers from 923.66 KB to 207.08 KB (77.58%) so it is really necessary to enable

Re: [Toolserver-l] Upload many GB to Internet Archive

2010-11-04 Thread Platonides
Mike Dupont wrote: Let me know if you get this script running I would also like to make a tool that will upload to commons and to archive.org http://archive.org I had a idea to make a drupal site that would let users post http://freesb.eu/drupal/drupal-7.0-alpha6/?q=node/2 would like to go

Re: [Toolserver-l] Upload many GB to Internet Archive

2010-11-05 Thread Platonides
Wikimedia Israel also did something similar in their pikiwiki project. The problem is not making such software, but the filtering labour required later. Mike Dupont wrote: Well this idea is from gerard m http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM the images being copyright violations, well

Re: [Toolserver-l] Upload many GB to Internet Archive

2010-11-06 Thread Platonides
Mike Dupont wrote: But the discussion is not that simple. You can host and display pictures on other sites for selection and uploading to to toolserver. What I am trying to discuss here are technical measures to make it easier for facebook and other users to safely make positive

Re: [Toolserver-l] Character encoding after selecting form database

2010-11-26 Thread Platonides
Maciej Jaros wrote: Strange. I wasn't able to make phpMyAdmin act as expected otherwise then casting page_title as binary. Shell act the same to me but I guess it might be because my system doesn't use latin1. I guess using this in my script was NOT a good idea:

Re: [Toolserver-l] alternative way to get wikipedia dump while server is down

2010-11-26 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: 2010/11/26 Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com: Somehow I think that publishing an entire dump violates the do not publish significant parts of an article rule. Surely the toolserver admins could be asked to consider waiving that in this case considering the public

Re: [Toolserver-l] alternative way to get wikipedia dump while server is down

2010-11-26 Thread Platonides
Михајло Анђелковић wrote: I do not see the dump of srwiki in the given directory. Is there any clue when they might be available again on dumps.wikimedia.org? M You can follow the story here: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Dataset1#11-10-2010_-_New_errors This was expected to be fixed

Re: [Toolserver-l] alternative way to get wikipedia dump while server is down

2010-11-28 Thread Platonides
Bryan Tong Minh wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Also, as discussed with Ariel, I will gladly mirror such dumps at wm-es web space. You do have a toolserver account right? I think it would be a good idea if you could copy the dumps from the TS

Re: [Toolserver-l] Domain for a project

2010-11-28 Thread Platonides
Paul Selitskas wrote: Is it able to give a project its own domain one day while the project will still be a Toolserver project with proper TS attribution/promotion? There's no Wikipedia DB replica in Belarus, so downloading dumps would not be the best approach in my planned project. :)

Re: [Toolserver-l] Interwiki handling on the toolserver. (Was: FYI: Changing of interwiki-bots-account-approval)

2010-12-03 Thread Platonides
Purodha Blissenbach wrote: While we're at it - in the future, we shall have interwiki bots reading the replicated data bases to a great extent while gathering informations about existing and prseumably missing interwiki links. This will be sparing lots of request to the wmf servers which will

Re: [Toolserver-l] Two beginner questions

2010-12-09 Thread Platonides
Alex Brollo wrote: 2. The script bring into life a python bot, who reads RecentChanges at 10 minutes intervals by a cron routine. Is perhaps more efficient a #irc bot listening it.wikisource #irc channel for recent changes in your opinion? Yes. Specially since you presumably want to get *all*

Re: [Toolserver-l] Two beginner questions

2010-12-09 Thread Platonides
Михајло Анђелковић wrote: Long ago I have noticed that the irc server is kicking my bot out after some time from some reason. Then I looked closer and noticed there is a server's ping around that mishaps. Alright, then I just added an ad-hoc pong: public void responsePing(String

Re: [Toolserver-l] Two beginner questions

2010-12-09 Thread Platonides
Sumurai8 (DD) wrote: Well... you can actually send every 3 minutes a PONG-message without listening to the IRC-channel and the server will gladly accept that ^_^ . That's what I did at the time I didn't know about the timeout-option of a socket :) But most of the time it is just better to

Re: [Toolserver-l] Two beginner questions

2010-12-10 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: PS: I cringe every time I see someone parsing IRC lines with things like strncmp(line, PRIVMSG , 8) or strstr(line, :). The IRC protocol is very simple, and tokenising it properly is really not that difficult. (Every argument is separated by a space; if the first byte

Re: [Toolserver-l] I10N and toolserver subdomains

2010-12-30 Thread Platonides
Paul Selitskas wrote: And here a problem arises. Not all operating systems and browsers are translated in every language. For example, there's still no Belarusian Windows and Internet Explorer. There's no Belarusian Chrome furthermore. So it's a bit more complicated from the second sight.

Re: [Toolserver-l] Compressing stats files better (was; Re: /mnt/user-store is full)

2011-01-03 Thread Platonides
Frederic Schutz wrote: emijrp wrote: Hi Frederic, thanks for your work. Have you tested 7z? It makes no difference to me. River suggested (and installed) xz, so I used it, but 7z would have worked too. A quick test using my biased data for one day (but it should be representative

Re: [Toolserver-l] Design of toolserver.org

2011-02-05 Thread Platonides
MZMcBride wrote: I know this has come up previously, but I don't think it was ever addressed. What's the process for updating the design of http://toolserver.org? Can the index file be made to load from the Toolserver wiki (similar to how www.wikipedia.org works at Meta-Wiki)? It loads from

Re: [Toolserver-l] A beginner's question

2011-02-05 Thread Platonides
Alex Brollo wrote: I'd like to install into my toolserver account djvuLibre binaries. Unluckily my knowlege of Unix is very primitive - approaching to nothing. Is some of you willing to take a look to http://djvu.sourceforge.net/index.html, and to tell me if Solaris 6

Re: [Toolserver-l] Job scheduling and mail receiving

2011-02-09 Thread Platonides
Ilmari Karonen wrote: I remember being disappointed by the lack of stderr output in the mail I got after switching my Commons MIME type statistics script over to SGE, but then I just thought meh, I'm logging to a file anyway, I can always just look there if something goes wrong. SGE has a

Re: [Toolserver-l] A try to build a wikicaptcha and toolserver script sharing politics

2011-02-09 Thread Platonides
Alex Brollo wrote: I'm going to run into toolserver some simple python + djvuLivre routines to test the possibility to obtain a wikicaptcha, built to be useful for wikisource activity. I'm far from sufficiently skilled to write all the project, in particular the final user interface; but

Re: [Toolserver-l] A try to build a wikicaptcha and toolserver script sharing politics

2011-02-09 Thread Platonides
Alex Brollo wrote: Looks interesting. Does the language matter for you? Because if python does not offer an advantage over php, I would recommend the later so that it'd be easier to merge into wikisource. Yes, it matter; I hardly can write something in python, I have only very

Re: [Toolserver-l] Job scheduling and mail receiving

2011-02-12 Thread Platonides
Dr. Trigon wrote: @Platonides: What is this parameter then?? Thanks and greetings DrTrigon It's -j -j join Declares if the standard error stream of the job will be merged with the standard output stream of the job. An option argument value of oe directs that the two streams

Re: [Toolserver-l] Needs of important ressources

2011-03-04 Thread Platonides
Seb35 wrote: Krinkle wrote: How much is too much memory ? We needed to transform and crop TIFF images, read an XML associated with a book containing the OCRized text of the digitized book, and create a DjVu with the images and the text layer. For that we rent a server, I cannot

Re: [Toolserver-l] A strange thing in huwiki database

2011-03-17 Thread Platonides
Another example are articles imported from usemodwiki, whose history will have a later id than those which were 'current'. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting

Re: [Toolserver-l] Toolserver Intuition - Tech spec (Toolserver goes I18N!)

2011-03-29 Thread Platonides
Krinkle wrote: -- Tool developer workflow: I'll describe how the system would work from a tool developers point of view. [3] So here's what you'd do to make it work, three easy steps: 1) The toolserver tool developer includes a single php file (eg. / p_i18n/ToolStart.php). This makes

Re: [Toolserver-l] Privacy Violation?

2011-04-01 Thread Platonides
Brett Hillebrand wrote: I have reason to believe that one of Betacommand's tools is currently violating the Toolserver's privacy policy by profiling individual users editing times and edited articles for comparative reasons as seen at: http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/UserCompare/ This

Re: [Toolserver-l] Privacy Violation?

2011-04-01 Thread Platonides
Brett Hillebrand wrote: Well aware of that fact, but you seem to operate on the assumption that I can and would be arsed removing it just for this mailing list? Obviously common sense isn't so common. But all this detracts from what I actually raised earlier, but if some people have nothing

Re: [Toolserver-l] Toolserver Intuition - Tech spec (Toolserver goes I18N!)

2011-04-01 Thread Platonides
Krinkle wrote: * Automated updates: Since the messages are file-stored in the messages-directory of the tool. There's no need to keep track or update anything for you. (...) -- TranslateWiki I'm currently in talks with TranslateWiki how to best set up the syncing system. Although initial

Re: [Toolserver-l] Alternative C function to vasprintf() on Toolserver

2011-04-09 Thread Platonides
Andrew Dunbar wrote: I've got a little program to index dump files that supports Windows and Linux but it doesn't compile on the Toolserver with either cc or gcc due to the lack of the function vasprintf(). It's a GNU extension so I'm surprised it didn't work even with gcc. Why doesn't the

Re: [Toolserver-l] Re : Scheduling a pywikipedia bot

2011-04-24 Thread Platonides
Grimlock wrote: Doing a sys.path.append(whatever) is uneffective when you have to schedule a python work (I tested it yersteday). The issue that Junaid indicated and the answer given is, in my mind, the only one for the moment. Grimlock The generic way to change the current working dir

Re: [Toolserver-l] Query Service Inquiry

2011-04-28 Thread Platonides
Jim Hutchinson wrote: (I tried to post this question before but was not properly registered for the mailing list. If this is a repeat I apologize.) I am in need of some guidance on how to get some data out of the query service. I signed up for an account, but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to

Re: [Toolserver-l] Query Service Inquiry

2011-04-29 Thread Platonides
Manish Goregaokar wrote: 1. Select 200 random articles. 2. Get the top contributors for each of them. 3. Get the edit counts for those contributors. I think he has the list/s of 200 articles, and does not want random ones. Plus, he doesn't want the editcounts, he wants their top edited

Re: [Toolserver-l] fixing problems regarding PHP's multi-byte string processing

2011-05-13 Thread Platonides
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Giftpflanze m.p.ropp...@web.de wrote: The behavior of string processing seem to have changed in different programs almost simultaneously, somewhere around October 2010. It may be connected with TS-852 [*] which was resolved on 2010-12-08. TS-852 was a change

Re: [Toolserver-l] SSH login issue

2011-06-20 Thread Platonides
http://toolserver.org/~platonides/sandbox/privatekey.rsa chmod 700 privatekey.rsa ssh -i privatekey.rsa platoni...@toolserver.org ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l

Re: [Toolserver-l] Re-importing of several database clusters

2011-06-21 Thread Platonides
River Tarnell wrote: Hi, I'm about to re-import several database clusters from WMF: s3, s4, s6 and s7. This will be done on the secondary server first, so users won't be affected, except that queries on these clusters might be a bit slower for a while. This will resolve the following TS

[Toolserver-l] Toolserver status files (was: Toolserver status)

2011-08-09 Thread Platonides
While we are discussing the toolserver status reports, i'd like to bring up some issues I recently found with the status files: $ ls -l /var/www/status* -rw-r--r-- 1 rdab root 34 Jul 1 14:53 /var/www/status_s1 -rw-r--r-- 1 rdab root 34 Jul 1 14:53 /var/www/status_s2 -rw-r--r-- 1 rdab root

Re: [Toolserver-l] Toolserver status files

2011-08-10 Thread Platonides
into account and wants to benefit from my library, he can do: require_once /home/platonides/public_html/common/status.php; ToolserverStatus::showPrettyBox(); And a nice box will appear -if needed- with any relevant status information at that point

Re: [Toolserver-l] Clean-up your homes

2011-09-05 Thread Platonides
Marcin Cieslak wrote: 4.8Gsaper now: 238.8M saper Btw. I have an automatically updated copy of Mediawiki SVN repository here, so you can save space if you have your own copy. /mnt/user-store/mediawiki/ (the copy is being pulled via hgsvn into Mercurial, so Mercurial commands

Re: [Toolserver-l] Hiphop php

2011-09-13 Thread Platonides
Mike Dupont wrote: Hi there, I have been asked to help with the porting of media wiki to hiphopphp and setting up an example, it requires a large amount of cpu and disk and would like to know if we can use the toolserver for development? This is for compiling and testing, not a full

Re: [Toolserver-l] Announcement - XSaLT: XSL/XSLT Simple and Lightweight Tool

2011-09-13 Thread Platonides
Dr. Trigon wrote: I would check that xslt is only composed by alphanumeric characters* and do something like /home/drtrigon/xslt/ + xslt + .xslt (this ensures there's no ../ and doesn't contain \0) I considered this solution, since it sounded to be very easy. BUT the check for alphanum does

[Toolserver-l] Accessing the logging table

2011-09-18 Thread Platonides
A few hours ago I issued the following command in commonswiki_p mysql select * from logging where log_namespace=6 and log_title='Estatuas_y_fuentes_de_La_Granja_de_San_Ildefonso_1.jpg' limit 10; Empty set (1 hour 5 min 33.53 sec) Why does it take so long? There should be an index on it, which

Re: [Toolserver-l] access to frwiki_p

2011-09-22 Thread Platonides
antoine delarue a écrit: hello, I can't connect anymore to frwiki_p with the command line / sql frwiki_p / but I am able to connect to enwiki_p. Is this due to some grants removed, or is it a problem with the frwiki_p database ? Regards Hercule Works for me. Try again. What kind of

Re: [Toolserver-l] Cronjob failing - help?

2011-09-22 Thread Platonides
René Kijewski wrote: Am Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:48:58 -0400 schrieb Hersfoldhersfoldw...@gmail.com: I've gotten this failure message the last two time my bot has tried to run. Does any one know what might be causing this? I don't recognize the script it mentions. Unable to run job: got no

Re: [Toolserver-l] Outage

2011-10-02 Thread Platonides
Merlijn van Deen wrote: Back in may 2010, the 'official procedure' when the TS was down was mailing to ts-major-outage (at) TCX (dot) ORG (dot) UK: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2010-May/003175.html Has this changed (e.g. because only river gets notices from that

Re: [Toolserver-l] Toolserver down

2011-10-16 Thread Platonides
On 16/10/11 20:45, Magnus Manske wrote: The server at www.toolserver.org is taking too long to respond. Also, no ssh (I tried nightshade). Magnus Works for me. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org)

Re: [Toolserver-l] performance issues

2011-10-26 Thread Platonides
Marlen Caemmerer wrote: Rosemary (one of the enwiki-DB-Hosts) seems to bring the maximum of the I/O that is possible, disk graphs are clipping there. In the MySQL traffic graph you can see there is clipping too. Strange thing about this is that this phenomenon started in the middle of

Re: [Toolserver-l] performance issues

2011-10-29 Thread Platonides
DaB. schrieb: have you ever thought about the possiblity that maybe there are more users on the TS and more people who use the toolserver now than 2 years ago? Or maybe it is just people like you, who let a query for a WEBTOOL run for 71 minutes! We are just short on hardware at the

Re: [Toolserver-l] I have difficulties with USE INDEX(...) in mysql on the toolserver.

2011-10-30 Thread Platonides
philipp.zed...@tu-berlin.de wrote: Hallo, I'm working with the very huge mysql table 'revision' in the database e.g. enwiki_p and would like to choose keys by hand using 'USE INDEX(...)', because I think, mysql's choices are sometimes not ideal. My difficulty is that if I try to do

[Toolserver-l] cronie daemon down in willow and nightshade

2011-11-05 Thread Platonides
Seems the daemon of cronie is not running in willow nor nightshade. Listing the processes with cron name, there's only /usr/sbin/cron which seems to be the daemon for sun crontab. From clematis process list (where cronie does continue running, so jobs sent from submit were probably not affected),

Re: [Toolserver-l] cronie daemon down in willow and nightshade

2011-11-05 Thread Platonides
John wrote: I've been getting crontab emails less than 5 minutes ago Sun crontab or cronie? Note that crontab is still running on both. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org)

Re: [Toolserver-l] cronie daemon down in willow and nightshade

2011-11-09 Thread Platonides
On 09/11/11 09:06, Liangent wrote: Now I find my cronjobs still run twice a time even if I clear my crontab on nightshade. Can someone have a look and tell me what's wrong? -Liangent I suspect you had your crons in nightshade inside cronie and the events looked like this: * cronie daemon

Re: [Toolserver-l] cronie daemon down in willow and nightshade

2011-11-09 Thread Platonides
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 18:08, Liangent wrote: After some check I thought the fact was: * I install my crontab on nightshade crontab (when it was still running Linux) * nightshade is re-installed as Solaris and my crontab gets lost * River publishes a notice and askes us to type 'cronie

Re: [Toolserver-l] CrontabCr

2011-11-25 Thread Platonides
On 25/11/11 14:35, Magnus Manske wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:45 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: Mine is betacommand And one more (magnus): Unable to run job: got no response from JSV script /sge62/default/common/jsv.sh. Exiting. This is an SGE error, after your cron

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