Re: [Wikitech-l] Special pages

2009-02-17 Thread Rotem Liss
Brion Vibber wrote: Last week some of the background batch jobs were reorganized to run under a less privileged user account, a good security practice. Unfortunately the log files the batch jobs logged to didn't have their ownership updated, so the batch jobs were unable to actually run,

Re: [Wikitech-l] category page with curious data

2009-02-17 Thread Uwe Baumbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Uwe Baumbach u.baumb...@web.de wrote: after our upgrade to 1.14 we see at one category page:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email notification

2009-02-17 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: Part of the problem is that the measure of job queue length we really care about is what was the last job executed?, not how many jobs are in the queue?. If we added a job_timestamp column and put an index on it, we could replace (or supplement) the cruddy poor-quality

Re: [Wikitech-l] list of recurring maintenance scripts/tasks?

2009-02-17 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: Wait... MediaWikians? If we're MediaWikians, then are the users on MediaWiki.org MediaWiki.orgians? Nowait... aha, it's MediaWiki.organs! /me goes to see if he can find a way to get the .organs .tld created...; /humor No, MediaWikians would be the people at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email notification

2009-02-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm not sure what good a complaining bot would do, any more than a complaining user which we seem to have plenty of. Deleting the jobs was not a solution, and can't really be repeated without breaking things. There's

[Wikitech-l] Feature-request: euro-symbol (TeX)

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Florian Schönitzer
Hello, In several Tex-implementations, Euro-sign (€) can be created by \euro, \EURO \texteuro or \EUR. This isn't implemented in Mediawiki jet - but several WP-users have been asking for it. Could anyone please do this? Best Regards, Michi -- Michael F. Schönitzer Mail: mich...@schoenitzer.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email notification

2009-02-17 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: I misunderstood the problem, evidently. I thought it was a one-off thing due to software bugs the sysadmins didn't know about. It seems it's more like a

Re: [Wikitech-l] empty parts in print preview and print

2009-02-17 Thread Uwe Baumbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, after upgrade to 1.14 we suffer from empty parts in print preview and print output at only some pages! It works only with IE7, FF and other IE versions print well. Is this a known thing? Empty part (white area) seems to start right

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump processes seem to be dead

2009-02-17 Thread Russell Blau
Andreas Meier andreasmeie...@gmx.de wrote in message news:4997d645.8050...@gmx.de... Hello, the current dump building seem to be dead and perhaps should be killed by hand. Reported: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17535 ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special pages

2009-02-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/17/09 8:33 AM, Russell Blau wrote: Rotem Lissroteml...@gmail.com wrote in message news:499a7134.5090...@gmail.com... Brion Vibber wrote: Last week some of the background batch jobs were reorganized to run under a less privileged user account, a good security practice. Unfortunately

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special pages

2009-02-17 Thread Huib Laurens
Brion, You Rock!!! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Will MediaWiki continue to use GPLv2?

2009-02-17 Thread Trond Olsen
Are there any plans of MediaWiki migrating from GPLv2 to GPLv3? If so, will GPLv2 still be supported in future release? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Will MediaWiki continue to use GPLv2?

2009-02-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/17/09 11:34 AM, Trond Olsen wrote: Are there any plans of MediaWiki migrating from GPLv2 to GPLv3? If so, will GPLv2 still be supported in future release? We have no particular plans to update to GPLv3 at this time. Any particular interest in us converting or not in the future? -- brion

Re: [Wikitech-l] Will MediaWiki continue to use GPLv2?

2009-02-17 Thread Trond Olsen
It was in regard to if you're mixing in GPLv2 compatible sourcecode and then later will be unable to receive security updates if MediaWiki becomes GPLv3 only. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 2/17/09 11:34 AM, Trond Olsen wrote: Are there any plans

Re: [Wikitech-l] Will MediaWiki continue to use GPLv2?

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel Friesen
Most GPLed code is GPL version #, or later. That's what MediaWiki is, so even if a move to GPLv3 is made anything specifying the , or later which all the MW extensions using GPL in svn should be, then that code can still be used because the , or later allows the code to be used under GPLv3

Re: [Wikitech-l] Will MediaWiki continue to use GPLv2?

2009-02-17 Thread Trond Olsen
I see now that the different sourcecode mentions GPL version #, or later. I'm only using the webservices API so misunderstood the COPYING file which only says GPLv2, but that's only a reference for GPLv2. Thanks for the answers. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Daniel Friesen

Re: [Wikitech-l] Will MediaWiki continue to use GPLv2?

2009-02-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Trond Olsen tolse...@gmail.com wrote: It was in regard to if you're mixing in GPLv2 compatible sourcecode and then later will be unable to receive security updates if MediaWiki becomes GPLv3 only. You would in any event be able to receive and apply security