Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki performance analysis

2013-11-15 Thread Yury Katkov
Just don't tell me that the 6th most popular website on Earth don't do any load testing! Maybe I don't understand the process and you test the software in a completely different way? - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [Wikitech-l] The interwiki table as a whitelist of non-spammy sites

2013-11-15 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/14/2013 12:53 PM, Nathan Larson wrote: Is there reason to think that a decentralized system would be likely to evolve, or that it would be optimal? Yes. Wikimedians are motivated to maintain Wikimedia sitess. I don't think it is likely that they'll have an interest in maintaining a list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Memento Extension for MediaWiki: Advice on Further Development

2013-11-15 Thread Shawn Jones
Hi Dan, Thank you very much for your offer of assistance form the WMF. We have several issues that need to be addressed. 1. Completely eliminating the use of Mediawiki's global variables. In our extension, we have eliminated the use of all of Mediawiki's global variables except

[Wikitech-l] Labs datacenter migration

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew Bogott
Almost a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation migrated most of our services from our old data center in Tampa to the new one in Ashburn [1]. In the next couple of months Labs and Tool Labs will be following suit -- we expect to have everything moved to Ashburn by mid-January at the latest.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] MediaWiki performance analysis

2013-11-15 Thread Ori Livneh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Just don't tell me that the 6th most popular website on Earth don't do any load testing! Maybe I don't understand the process and you test the software in a completely different way? We load-test by having a staggered

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki performance analysis

2013-11-15 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Just don't tell me that the 6th most popular website on Earth don't do any load testing! Maybe I don't understand the process and you test the software in a completely different way? Isn't it always best just to go

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki performance analysis

2013-11-15 Thread George William Herbert
On Nov 15, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't it always best just to go with the flow? ;) No. Build performance testing and QA testing into the flow on any project. (I know you were joking, but the industry as a whole does not get this one, so I berate people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-15 Thread Derric Atzrott
We were dealing with cascading site issues due to excessive database queries, and are still investigating the root cause, but site should be recovered by now. I couldn't find an post-mortem on the Wikitech. Did one end up getting made, or is that perhaps still a work in progress? Thank you,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Memento Extension for MediaWiki: Advice on Further Development

2013-11-15 Thread Shawn Jones
Thanks Brian, Defaulting to only allow $wgContentNamespaces, or more specifically, MWNamespace::getContentNamespaces(), worked great. --Shawn From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Brian Wolff

[Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of November 18th

2013-11-15 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the deployment highlights email. As always, the upcoming planned deployments can be found here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Near_Term Scheduling note: There will be no planned deploys during the week of the Thanksgiving (US Holiday).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community team updates

2013-11-15 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/05/2013 01:52 PM, Quim Gil wrote: We also have our team's quarterly review, which we expect will be useful to sync our longer term plans with our current activities - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals#Engineering_Community The Engineering Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-15 Thread Risker
On 15 November 2013 16:28, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.comwrote: We were dealing with cascading site issues due to excessive database queries, and are still investigating the root cause, but site should be recovered by now. I couldn't find an post-mortem on the Wikitech. Did one