https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30571

--- Comment #3 from Bryan Tong Minh <[email protected]> 2011-08-31 
13:48:34 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)

> Note: I assumed that all wikis would write their own images into a single
> global usage table. However, although 
> 
> cd /var/www/v-species/o;    sudo php ./maintenance/sql.php
> ./extensions/GlobalUsage/GlobalUsage.sql --conf ./LocalSettings.php
> 
That is correct.

> was executed only on the shared repository, all wiki checked seem to contain 
> a 
> globalimagelinks table, and this table is filled with the records for the 
> local
> images of each wiki.
> 
> Since GlobalUsage.sql was definitely not executed for all wikis, either 
> refresh
> does this, or a general update.php script (which was executed, due to version
> changes) may do this?
> 
> -----
This is indeed due to update.php and probably because of an incomplete
configuration.

> 
> The config for all wikis is:
> require_once( "$IP/extensions/GlobalUsage/GlobalUsage.php" );
> $wgGlobalUsageDatabase = "openmedia";
> 
> 
> The documentation on mediawiki says: "In LocalSettings, set
> $wgGlobalUsageDatabase to the identifier of the wiki where the GlobalUsage 
> data
> is located (usually the database name). It should be something understandable
> to wfGetDB. Example: $wgGlobalUsageDatabase = 'commonswiki';"
> 
> I interpret this that this should be the sql database name, i.e. the name in
> $wgDBname. Is this perhaps incorrect?
That is indeed incorrect. It should be the name given in a load balancer
configuration [1]. I don't know myself how the load balancer works exactly or
how to configure it, but perhaps GlobalUsage should be fixed to also work with
a given database name.


[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLBFactoryConf

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