[Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert
I have just had to deal with this - AGAIN - and would like to rail for a
moment, hoping to provoke discussion to promote change.  I posit that this
is big enough to deserve a Foundation-wide venue for initial discussion so
am including Wikitech-L.

Most of us are probably familiar with the cycle:

Person A on en.wp (or, any project) uploads an image which is apparently
public domain or free use by any reasonable standard.  It gets put on
article X.  There is much rejoicing.

Person B later thinks Oh, this is something other projects might use, and
it's 'free', so... and uploads it to Commons.  It then gets deleted at
en.wp by a helpful bot.

Person C on Commons later identifies that it fails to be an entirely free
piece under the much-stricter Commons rules, due to some factor that A and
B were unaware of.  Person C nominates it for deletion there.  Poof.  Gone.

Now, we have NO image, for something that is sufficiently legal under our
rules and the law for use on en.wp (and likely, most of the rest of the
projects).  A delinker bot helpfully comes along and nukes references to
the image off the pages that used to have it.  Maintainers who miss the bot
edit fail to notice that it's gone.  Many months or years go along and
finally someone notices, and either is an admin and restores the image on
en.wp or finds an admin who restores it on en.wp.


Now, for someone who sees images as an integral part of the total
READERSHIP value we present, in terms of helping people understand things
by drawing their attention and expressing ideas and history in a visual
manner, the long periods where we've lost all image are mind-numbingly
counter to our core mission.  That we've evolved into this cycle due to
bureaucratic friction does not make it acceptable.


PROPOSED: This is not acceptable.  Something must be done.

SUGGESTED FIX #1: Create a parallel Uncommons project, for shared images
which meet minimum project legal non-copyvio standards but do not meet the
threshold Commons is insisting on (or we have defined Commons to be).  This
requires coding in the WMF to allow a parallel project as image source, and
would require that Commons' deletion process be modified such that
deletions for copyright niggles be a shift-to-Uncommons rather than an
outright delete.

SUGGESTED FIX #2: Stop deleting things from local projects when they're
uploaded to commons.  This requires additional diskspace from the
Foundation (by some as-yet unknown amount).  Ops team - Could you attempt
to determine if this would be significant, troublesome, small enough to not
be significant, etc?


These are not the only two possible solutions, but they come to mind
immediately (and have previously when I thought of this).  Additional fix
concepts solicited and welcomed.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Huib Laurens
To suggestion 2:

It makes no difference at all for the discspace if a file gets deleted or
not. Since you are always able to restore it it will stay on the server.

Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on Commons...
No coding needed at all.

Huib


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:36 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:

 I have just had to deal with this - AGAIN - and would like to rail for a
 moment, hoping to provoke discussion to promote change.  I posit that this
 is big enough to deserve a Foundation-wide venue for initial discussion so
 am including Wikitech-L.

 Most of us are probably familiar with the cycle:

 Person A on en.wp (or, any project) uploads an image which is apparently
 public domain or free use by any reasonable standard.  It gets put on
 article X.  There is much rejoicing.

 Person B later thinks Oh, this is something other projects might use, and
 it's 'free', so... and uploads it to Commons.  It then gets deleted at
 en.wp by a helpful bot.

 Person C on Commons later identifies that it fails to be an entirely free
 piece under the much-stricter Commons rules, due to some factor that A and
 B were unaware of.  Person C nominates it for deletion there.  Poof.  Gone.

 Now, we have NO image, for something that is sufficiently legal under our
 rules and the law for use on en.wp (and likely, most of the rest of the
 projects).  A delinker bot helpfully comes along and nukes references to
 the image off the pages that used to have it.  Maintainers who miss the bot
 edit fail to notice that it's gone.  Many months or years go along and
 finally someone notices, and either is an admin and restores the image on
 en.wp or finds an admin who restores it on en.wp.


 Now, for someone who sees images as an integral part of the total
 READERSHIP value we present, in terms of helping people understand things
 by drawing their attention and expressing ideas and history in a visual
 manner, the long periods where we've lost all image are mind-numbingly
 counter to our core mission.  That we've evolved into this cycle due to
 bureaucratic friction does not make it acceptable.


 PROPOSED: This is not acceptable.  Something must be done.

 SUGGESTED FIX #1: Create a parallel Uncommons project, for shared images
 which meet minimum project legal non-copyvio standards but do not meet the
 threshold Commons is insisting on (or we have defined Commons to be).  This
 requires coding in the WMF to allow a parallel project as image source, and
 would require that Commons' deletion process be modified such that
 deletions for copyright niggles be a shift-to-Uncommons rather than an
 outright delete.

 SUGGESTED FIX #2: Stop deleting things from local projects when they're
 uploaded to commons.  This requires additional diskspace from the
 Foundation (by some as-yet unknown amount).  Ops team - Could you attempt
 to determine if this would be significant, troublesome, small enough to not
 be significant, etc?


 These are not the only two possible solutions, but they come to mind
 immediately (and have previously when I thought of this).  Additional fix
 concepts solicited and welcomed.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:

 Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on Commons...
 No coding needed at all.


This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore the
deleted file.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:

  Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
 Commons...
  No coding needed at all.
 

 This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore the
 deleted file.


I am an admin, it took about five minutes to find the proper file name and
undelete it again.

HOWEVER - this was 16 months after it was deleted in the first place.

The imperfect nature of people catching such changes in watchlists is the
problem.  This means that the delay until local restore can be arbitrarily
long on non-super-popular pages.

IF the Commons upload were to include the origin file / project and require
the deleter at commons to notify en.wp admins to restore it there, that
would solve the problem.

Or, alternately, we could require that the image be added to all the
constituent projects now using the file in article space upon commons
deletion (undelete on the origin, add it to the projects for other ones
that started using it).  Put the onus on commons deleters to do that and
make it a policy requirement that they did.

I put wikien-l back in the cc list as these are non-technical proposals and
would require ... I guess, commons process.  I don't know what the commons
list is, and am not on it to be able to post to it.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:

 Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on Commons...
 No coding needed at all.

 This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore the
 deleted file.


Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Aug 5, 2013 9:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
wrote:

  Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
Commons...
  No coding needed at all.

  This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore the
  deleted file.


 Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.


 - d.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
 Commons...
  No coding needed at all.

  This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore the
  deleted file.


 Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.


...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.  That
does not solve the now used on other wikis problem, however, for those
other wikis.

That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...


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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Huib Laurens
Ehm, if a file gets deleted 16 months after the move there is still a log
entry from the change in the history of the article right?

But if CommonsDelinker should report a list of all deleted files on a
wikipage people would be able to check them and restore the local versions
when needed?

Secondly we should also learn people what can and what can't be moved to
Commons so we won't have the problem also.

Huib


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
 Commons...
  No coding needed at all.

  This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore the
  deleted file.


 Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

  On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
  Commons...
   No coding needed at all.
 
   This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore
the
   deleted file.
 
 
  Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.
 

 ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.  That
 does not solve the now used on other wikis problem, however, for those
 other wikis.

 That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...


Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any projects


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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Aug 5, 2013 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
wrote:


 On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
   wrote:
  
Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
   Commons...
No coding needed at all.
  
This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore
the
deleted file.
  
  
   Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.
  
 
  ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.  That
  does not solve the now used on other wikis problem, however, for those
  other wikis.
 
  That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...
 

 Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any
projects
To me, its early, early enough to spout nonsense apparently. Let me re try
that one. Maybe don't de link it if the image was migrated to commons from
one of the other projects.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Huib Laurens
Not delink it when its in use on other projects will leave a lot of broken
links on projects. I can't believe that would be something what we want?


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
   wrote:
  
Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
   Commons...
No coding needed at all.
  
This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore
 the
deleted file.
  
  
   Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.
  
 
  ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.  That
  does not solve the now used on other wikis problem, however, for those
  other wikis.
 
  That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...
 

 Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any projects

 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert
It would leave a paper trail that editors could use to find the commons
image, and hopefully its original source, to go get it from for other
projects.

Hmm.  Maybe not.  Not sure there's enough info there for that.  It's late,
solve in morning.

-george


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not delink it when its in use on other projects will leave a lot of broken
 links on projects. I can't believe that would be something what we want?


 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra 
 martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
  wrote:

  On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  
   On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  
On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
wrote:
   
 Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
Commons...
 No coding needed at all.
   
 This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin restore
  the
 deleted file.
   
   
Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.
   
  
   ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.
  That
   does not solve the now used on other wikis problem, however, for
 those
   other wikis.
  
   That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...
  
 
  Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any
 projects
 
  
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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Aug 5, 2013 10:10 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not delink it when its in use on other projects will leave a lot of broken
 links on projects. I can't believe that would be something what we want?


Why not? It immediately alerts whoever looks at it that there  is something
wrong with the image (which there is). Sure, it doesn't look pretty, but
you can't have your cake and eat it too. Unless we would want to fork
development and presentation on our projects, but that's a whole different
discussion.


 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra 
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  wrote:

  On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
wrote:
  
   On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
wrote:
  
On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
wrote:
   
 Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
Commons...
 No coding needed at all.
   
 This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin
restore
  the
 deleted file.
   
   
Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.
   
  
   ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.
 That
   does not solve the now used on other wikis problem, however, for
those
   other wikis.
  
   That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...
  
 
  Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any
projects
 
  
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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Huib Laurens
The bot alters a page and alerts people about it on the watchlist. By just
deleting the file it can take weeks before somebody even notice that there
is something wrong.

Besides that we have maybe 10 project that allow fair-use Why do we
need to break links at 600+ wiki's for 10 wiki's with a different policy?


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On Aug 5, 2013 10:10 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Not delink it when its in use on other projects will leave a lot of
 broken
  links on projects. I can't believe that would be something what we want?
 

 Why not? It immediately alerts whoever looks at it that there  is something
 wrong with the image (which there is). Sure, it doesn't look pretty, but
 you can't have your cake and eat it too. Unless we would want to fork
 development and presentation on our projects, but that's a whole different
 discussion.

 
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra 
 martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
   wrote:
 
   On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
 wrote:
   
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
 wrote:
   
 On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens 
 sterke...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on
 Commons...
  No coding needed at all.

  This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin
 restore
   the
  deleted file.


 Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.

   
...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.
  That
does not solve the now used on other wikis problem, however, for
 those
other wikis.
   
That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...
   
  
   Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any
 projects
  
   
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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert




On Aug 5, 2013, at 3:24 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:

 Besides that we have maybe 10 project that allow fair-use Why do we
 need to break links at 600+ wiki's for 10 wiki's with a different policy?

It would be nice if the Foundation and other projects, particularly shared 
resources, were en.wikipedia compatible.

That's not all must accept fair use!, but if you keep pissing off english 
language users, something is wrong.

This has been wrong for *years*...


Particular solutions here should minimize the pain and suffering for all, if at 
all possible.  But I am bringing this up because what we do now is not the 
minimum point across the projects for that pain and suffering.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:

 The bot alters a page and alerts people about it on the watchlist. By just
 deleting the file it can take weeks before somebody even notice that there
 is something wrong.


How about the best of both worlds, the bot makes a null edit to alert
people who have the article watchlisted, and the link stays broken to alert
everybody else.


 Besides that we have maybe 10 project that allow fair-use Why do we
 need to break links at 600+ wiki's for 10 wiki's with a different policy?


 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Martijn Hoekstra 
 martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
  wrote:

  On Aug 5, 2013 10:10 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
  
   Not delink it when its in use on other projects will leave a lot of
  broken
   links on projects. I can't believe that would be something what we
 want?
  
 
  Why not? It immediately alerts whoever looks at it that there  is
 something
  wrong with the image (which there is). Sure, it doesn't look pretty, but
  you can't have your cake and eat it too. Unless we would want to fork
  development and presentation on our projects, but that's a whole
 different
  discussion.
 
  
   On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martijn Hoekstra 
  martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
wrote:
  
On Aug 5, 2013 9:58 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
  wrote:

  On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com
 wrote:
   On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens 
  sterke...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted
 on
  Commons...
   No coding needed at all.
 
   This right here. It should be trivial to just have an admin
  restore
the
   deleted file.
 
 
  Or, indeed, for the delinker bot to mark it for restoration.
 

 ...if the same filename was used in Commons as in the source wiki.
   That
 does not solve the now used on other wikis problem, however, for
  those
 other wikis.

 That is quite possibly a least-effort trajectory however...

   
Maybe don't delink it in the first place when it is in use on any
  projects
   

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Re: [Wikitech-l] VE: why editing a paragraph opens the whole page?

2013-08-05 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 03/08/13 22:13, David Gerard a écrit :
snip
 I would actually be interested to know if new Javascript, new
 functionality, things like the VE, etc. are routinely tested on slow
 connections. Is there anything like this in place?

That is a recurring issue in software development.  The developers
usually have buffed computer and top internet connectivity which indeed
loose some optimization :-]   Once upon a time, by the time you released
your software, the mass market eventually reached the same spec as your
(then) top of the art computer and that was not much of an issue.

Maybe we could try simulating performances using small VM with a capped
network access.


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[Wikitech-l] access log (pagecounts) dump stopped

2013-08-05 Thread Ryu Cheol
Hello guys,

http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2013/2013-08/ is not updated 
for a few hours.
I don't know who keeps this running. Would please you let him know?

Cheers!
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Re: [Wikitech-l] access log (pagecounts) dump stopped

2013-08-05 Thread Diederik van Liere
Hi Cheol!

Thanks for alerting us to this issue. We are looking into it right now.
Best,
Diederik


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[Wikitech-l] wikivoyage (and wikidata) served by Varnish in eqiad

2013-08-05 Thread Mark Bergsma
Last week, we moved wikidata traffic in eqiad (so in practice, all non-European 
traffic) from Squid to the new text Varnish cluster. A few issues were found 
and fixed, and we haven't seen any new issues for several days.

Today I've done the same for Wikivoyage. Non-European Wikivoyage traffic, 
served by our eqiad cluster, is now served by Varnish. Wikivoyage has a bigger 
portion of normal users vs. API/bot traffic, so some new issues could surface.

Please let us know if you see any problems on Wikivoyage that might be related 
to the Varnish migration; file a Bugzilla ticket or mail me directly.

Thanks!

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Re: [Wikitech-l] access log (pagecounts) dump stopped

2013-08-05 Thread Diederik van Liere
Hi Cheol,

The cronjob was broken due to some maintenance on the dumps server. The
cronjob is being fixed right now and no data has been lost. In a couple of
hours all files should be present again. If you still see an issue in 48
hours then please ping me.

Best,
Diederik


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Diederik van Liere
dvanli...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 Hi Cheol!

 Thanks for alerting us to this issue. We are looking into it right now.
 Best,
 Diederik


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Re: [Wikitech-l] wikivoyage (and wikidata) served by Varnish in eqiad

2013-08-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 August 2013 16:17, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Last week, we moved wikidata traffic in eqiad (so in practice, all 
 non-European traffic) from Squid to the new text Varnish cluster. A few 
 issues were found and fixed, and we haven't seen any new issues for several 
 days.
 Today I've done the same for Wikivoyage. Non-European Wikivoyage traffic, 
 served by our eqiad cluster, is now served by Varnish. Wikivoyage has a 
 bigger portion of normal users vs. API/bot traffic, so some new issues could 
 surface.
 Please let us know if you see any problems on Wikivoyage that might be 
 related to the Varnish migration; file a Bugzilla ticket or mail me directly.


Somewhat ignorant question: once we go all-Varnish, will logs be
generated in a similar format to eventually end up at stats.grok.se?


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[Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread David Gerard
Not just for me, but for others. Is there any way for us to work out
what we're doing wrong?


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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=David Gerard date=2013-08-05 time=18:03:53 +0100
 Not just for me, but for others. Is there any way for us to work out
 what we're doing wrong?

I got a report that my message to wikitech-ambassadors@ was sent to spam
last week, as well.

Just throwing out a datum.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Yuvi Panda
All emails to labs-l always end up in spam for me (I've a special rule
that picks them out of spam, and GMail still warns me).

/end-data-point


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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le lundi 05 août 2013 à 23:01 +0530, Yuvi Panda a écrit :
 All emails to labs-l always end up in spam for me (I've a special rule
 that picks them out of spam, and GMail still warns me).
 
 /end-data-point
 
 
Bad mail provider, change mail provider. ;)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
What is the explanation for this? My spam folder is full of emails from
wiki mailing lists too.

Perhaps many users don't know how to unsubscribe and mark them as spam and
Google filter has learn it?


2013/8/5 Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org

 Le lundi 05 août 2013 à 23:01 +0530, Yuvi Panda a écrit :
  All emails to labs-l always end up in spam for me (I've a special rule
  that picks them out of spam, and GMail still warns me).
 
  /end-data-point
 
 
 Bad mail provider, change mail provider. ;)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Brian Wolff
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52556 sounds related...

--bawolff

On 8/5/13, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emi...@gmail.com wrote:
 What is the explanation for this? My spam folder is full of emails from
 wiki mailing lists too.

 Perhaps many users don't know how to unsubscribe and mark them as spam and
 Google filter has learn it?


 2013/8/5 Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org

 Le lundi 05 août 2013 à 23:01 +0530, Yuvi Panda a écrit :
  All emails to labs-l always end up in spam for me (I've a special rule
  that picks them out of spam, and GMail still warns me).
 
  /end-data-point
 
 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński

On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:03:53 +0200, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:


Not just for me, but for others. Is there any way for us to work out
what we're doing wrong?


I actually just noticed this today, unspammed the messages and was going to 
mail here about it. Affects at least wikitech-l and mediawiki-l for me.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 August 2013 20:06, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:03:53 +0200, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not just for me, but for others. Is there any way for us to work out
 what we're doing wrong?

 I actually just noticed this today, unspammed the messages and was going to
 mail here about it. Affects at least wikitech-l and mediawiki-l for me.


Been affecting a pile of lists for me, so it's something in what we
send in the headers.


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[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering July 2013 report

2013-08-05 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi,

The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in July 2013 is now
available.

Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/July
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/05/engineering-july-2013-report/

We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this
report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/July/summary

Below is the full HTML text of the report.

As always, feedback is appreciated on the usefulness of the report and its
summary, and on how to improve them.

--

Major news in July include:

   - 
Givinghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/visualeditor-beta-rollout/more
editors an easy-to-use editing interface (the VisualEditor) on several
   Wikipedias
   - Improving language support on our sites via summer interns'
projectshttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/23/updates-from-the-language-engineering-google-summer-of-code-projects/and
easier
   configuration
optionshttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/universal-language-selector-uls-deployed-on-more-than-150-wikis/,
   and 
askinghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/31/translate-ui-wikipedias-visual-editor/for
help translating the VisualEditor interface
   - 
Enablinghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/25/edit-wikipedia-on-the-go/users
to edit our sites from mobile devices, like phones and tablets, and
   
announcinghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/31/cooper-ux-bootcamp-wikipedia-mobile-editing/a
future user experience bootcamp focusing on mobile editing
   - 
Finishinghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/23/pywikipediabot-moving-to-git-on-july-26/our
transition from keeping source code in Subversion to storing it in Git
   - 
Launchinghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/25/aircel-partnership-brings-wikipedia-zero-to-india/a
Wikipedia Zero partnership with Aircel, giving mobile subscribers in
   India the potential to access Wikipedia at no data cost
   - 
Updatinghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-projects/the
Wikimedia movement on how we intend to protect our users' privacy with
   HTTPS
   - 
Signinghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/26/future-third-party-releases-mediawiki/a
contract with longtime MediaWiki contributors to manage MediaWiki
   releases for the open source community
   - 
Explaininghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/03/wikimedia-foundation-fixes-software-bugs/how
we find and gather software problems and deliver the fixes to users

*Note: We're also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of
this 
reporthttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/July/summarythat
does not assume specialized technical knowledge.
*

Personnel Work with us https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us

Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up,
and we really love talking to active community members about these roles.

   - Software Engineer -
Fundraisinghttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oawpXfwM
   - Software Engineer - Language
Engineeringhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oH3gXfwH
   - Software Engineer - Multimedia
Systemshttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oj40Wfw3
   - Senior Software Engineer -
Platformhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ouLnWfwi
   - Product Manager -
Platformhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o3vtXfwI
   - Dev-Ops Engineer -
SREhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ocLCWfwf
   - Software Engineer - Editor Engagement
Experimentationhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o8NJXfwl
   - Software Engineer - Editor
Engagementhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o6NJXfwj
   - Director of Program -
Mobilehttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oGqAXfwn
   - Front-end Developer -
Analyticshttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=olyGXfwg

Announcements

   - Bryan Davis joined the Platform Engineering team as a Senior Software
   Engineer, working generally on backend software issues and starting off
   supporting multimedia
(announcementhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070923.html
   ).
   - C. Scott Ananian joined the Parsoid team as a Senior Features Engineer
   
(announcementhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070316.html
   ).
   - Kenan Wang joined the Product team as Product Manager for Mobile (
   announcementhttps://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork/status/359473872527044609
   ).

Technical Operations

*Site infrastructure*
Lots of 
Puppethttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/01/from-duct-tape-to-puppets/refactoring
work got done this month, including considerable reorganization
of the puppet masters. Several manifests have been moved into modules, but
completing this project will take many months.

*Data Dumps https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Data_Dumps*
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread OQ
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emi...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 What is the explanation for this? My spam folder is full of emails from
 wiki mailing lists too.

 Perhaps many users don't know how to unsubscribe and mark them as spam and
 Google filter has learn it?


Since it includes a List-Unsubscribe header, when reporting it as spam,
Google prompts the user with something along the lines of Do you wish to
unsubscribe rather than report as spam?
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Risker
On 5 August 2013 16:23, OQ overlo...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada 
 emi...@gmail.com
  wrote:

  What is the explanation for this? My spam folder is full of emails from
  wiki mailing lists too.
 
  Perhaps many users don't know how to unsubscribe and mark them as spam
 and
  Google filter has learn it?
 
 
 Since it includes a List-Unsubscribe header, when reporting it as spam,
 Google prompts the user with something along the lines of Do you wish to
 unsubscribe rather than report as spam?


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.

Risker/Anne
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread David Gerard
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 ...)


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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I recommend posters re-read bawolff's message:

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:

 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52556 sounds related...

 --bawolff


lists.wikipedia.org is missing an SPF record in DNS.  That is most likely
what is causing the email to be flagged.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread OQ
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:57 PM, 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.


Hurm I stand corrected, I know it does this for some lists I've been
subscribed to, but not the WM lists, so *shrug*.[1]
The troubleshooter[2] does encourage SPF/DKIM, and if that fails to contact
them[3].

1 - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html
2 - https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/2696779?rd=1
3 - https://support.google.com/mail/contact/bulk_send
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 August 2013 22:25, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 lists.wikipedia.org is missing an SPF record in DNS.  That is most likely
 what is causing the email to be flagged.


Is that easy or hard to fix?

(I can't work out how to get a list of email addresses for wikien-l,
to work out how many subscribers are on gmail. I know at one stage
*all* of the moderators were ... it's a popular service for good
reason.)


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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Ken Snider
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 ...)
 
 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 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).


If Brian Wolff's diagnosis is correct (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52556) this has nothing to
do with GMail.  (Nor does mailing list traffic originate from google
servers, AFAIK.)
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Tim Landscheidt
C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 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).

 If Brian Wolff's diagnosis is correct (
 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52556) this has nothing to
 do with GMail.  (Nor does mailing list traffic originate from google
 servers, AFAIK.)

Just want to point that I am neither Brian Wolff nor would I
call the bug report a diagnosis :-) -- it's just a guess.

Greg asked
(cf. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52556#c1):

| Can someone who has some of the emails that were marked as spam please 
pastebin
| the headers? We're working with a contact at Google now to diagnose. It is
| probably the SPF issue, but they haven't suggested it yet (they probably
| haven't gotten that far).

Tim


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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread MZMcBride
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 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).

If Brian Wolff's diagnosis is correct (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52556) this has nothing to
do with GMail.  (Nor does mailing list traffic originate from google
servers, AFAIK.)

Tim L.'s diagnosis, rather, but indeed. As I understand it, this would be
a Wikimedia operations issue (setting an SPF record in Wikimedia's DNS
records for lists.wikimedia.org) and would fall to Ken and his team.

MZMcBride



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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Just looping the list in on the status:

We're talking with a support person from Google, they've made a couple
of suggestions that I've forwarded to Ops (specifically SPF and DKIM).

They also asked for the headers of some of the messages, which you saw I
related to the bug. I sent them the one Alex shared.

I'll let the list know when I have a more solid answer (ie: we're all
fixed or email hates us).

Greg

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Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-05 Thread Bináris
2013/8/5 Risker risker...@gmail.com


 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.


CU-list is also deeply involved. :-(
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