Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

Thanks. I tried to notify some affected wikis but surprisingly there is only one registered on WikiApiary: https://bucardo.org/wiki/Special:Version With some very wide Google searches like 'postgresql "powered by mediawiki"', I found a few more: * https://www.alteeve.com/w/Special:Version *

[Wikitech-l] Technical Debt SIG...

Hello All, I'm reaching out to invite you to an ongoing discussion regarding MediaWiki Technical Debt. The topic of technical debt has been discussed in a number of forums, and there's even been some work towards reducing it. This SIG's purpose is to get better alignment on what technical debt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical Debt SIG...

> discussion regarding MediaWiki Technical Debt. Is it limited to MediaWiki or is it all Wikimedia Tech Debt? On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Jean-Rene Branaa wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm reaching out to invite you to an ongoing discussion regarding MediaWiki > Technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

Does it actually make sense to notify third parties using postgres about the change? Its not like we are dropping support for it, and im doubtful that random user using postgres with mediawiki has opinions on implementation details such as what specific features are used in the schema or would

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

2017-08-17 16:50 GMT+03:00 Brian Wolff : > Does it actually make sense to notify third parties using postgres about > the change? Its not like we are dropping support for it, and im doubtful > that random user using postgres with mediawiki has opinions on > implementation

[Wikitech-l] Orphan unbreak now

There are thousands of pages generating lua errors when accessing wikidata with Lua (T170039 ) and it affects on most/all wikis. The issue is lasting for few weeks since first reported. It seems to have no root cause, but the best current guess (AFAIK)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Strainu wrote: > Will the upgrade be seamless regardless of how they upgrade their > version? In the best-case scenario, they'll have to run update.php as with most other MediaWiki updates, and it'll update everything for them. I don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

By notifications I don't mean alerts or warnings; just a way to have some feedback from real users of the affected "feature", given I see little on the task itself. If someone took the trouble to pick PostgreSQL as their MediaWiki database, I expect they have some reason to do so and maybe