[Wikitech-l] Major trouble with Cirrus forceSearchIndex.php script

be awesome! Thanks a lot, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] InnoDB / MyISAM

Yep, I just had a look and all the searchindex tables are empty and the tables doesn't seem to be accessed at all when using $wgSearchType = 'DcsCirrusSearch', so there's definitely no need for any MyISAM anywhere :-) On 28/07/19 2:33 PM, Aran via Wikitech-l wrote: > We're using InnoDB >

Re: [Wikitech-l] InnoDB / MyISAM

We're using InnoDB > 5.7 so full text search is definitely supported - but also we use Elastic search anyway, does this mean we don't even need the searchindex table? On 28/07/19 1:07 PM, Manuel Arostegui wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 4:03 PM Bartosz Dziewoński > wrote: > >> The

[Wikitech-l] InnoDB / MyISAM

that InnoDB is the best option, especially for recent versions. Would it be a good idea to change them all to InnoDB? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Redis job runner service

of threads assigned to each group..? But then why does the "gwt" group have runners=0? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Redis job runner

the prioritisation of various job types differently. All I've really been able to find about the configuration is the README in the repo. Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Write expectations exception

to always get executed almost immediately, which makes the job-queue a workable solution. Thanks, Aran On 18/06/19 11:41 AM, Kosta Harlan wrote: > My understanding is that eventually there will be enforcement in the > WMF production environments, but I’m not sure about MediaWiki itself. > &g

[Wikitech-l] Write expectations exception

|In a MediaWiki-based project I'm working on I'm getting many of these kinds of exceptions: [DBPerformance] Expectation (writes <= 0) by MediaWiki::main not met (actual: 8) | |I've read up on the Database transactions article in mediawiki.org and can see that to remove the exceptions we'd need to

[Wikitech-l] Problem importing images

"No file by this name exists, but you can upload it". I've tried running all the related maintenance scripts such as rebuildImages.php with no success :-( Any ideas? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgVisualEditorParsoidForwardCookies

s > > Hope this helps! >  --scott > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:25 AM Aran via Wikitech-l > <mailto:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> wrote: > > Hi, > > just wondering what the situation is with > $wgVisualEditorParsoidForwardCookies these days. The doc

[Wikitech-l] $wgVisualEditorParsoidForwardCookies

works fine without me having set this or allowed anonymous edits by localhost. Is there no longer any need to worry about settings specifically for locked down wikis? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bitcoin donations

erard wrote: > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give > > Thank you very much! > > > - d. > > On 22 August 2017 at 23:58, Aran <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: >> If you guys had a bitcoin option in your donation form you'd get more >> donations (like from me!). I

[Wikitech-l] Bitcoin donations

If you guys had a bitcoin option in your donation form you'd get more donations (like from me!). I don't have any balance in paypal, but sending some bitcoin would be easy. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question re what-links-here

Perhaps 1.28's script already does this since my 1.28's didn't have this problem, their backlinks were up to date immediately after running the script. On 02/06/17 16:34, zppix e wrote: > Sounds like a decent comprimise. I'm not to familar with the code behind > maintaince scripts to do this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question re what-links-here

made. Thus I needed to refresh the links manually which the maintenance script. On 31/05/17 15:17, Aran wrote: > No I just ran the refreshLink.php maintenance script from the shell. > > > On 31/05/17 15:12, יגאל חיטרון wrote: >> Did you use a bot? An API javascript? In any case

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question re what-links-here

No I just ran the refreshLink.php maintenance script from the shell. On 31/05/17 15:12, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > Did you use a bot? An API javascript? In any case, try the rest one. > Igal > > On May 31, 2017 21:04, "Aran" <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: > >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question re what-links-here

Strange, I've just noticed after coming back to it that the 1.27's are looking fine now... does the refreshLinks script launch child processes in the background or something? On 31/05/17 15:03, Aran wrote: > Hello, > > I have some wikis which have had some of their conten

[Wikitech-l] Question re what-links-here

's in the same situation the links updated fine after running the script... is this a known issue? is there any way I can update the links in the 1.27's without upgrading the wiki? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch forceSearchIndex.php issue

and --batchSize and all sorts but nothing allows it to do more than this amount at a time anyone have any idea what might be going on here? (It's happening on both MW 1.27 with Elastic Search 1.75 and MW 1.28 with elastic 2.4.4) Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with updateSearchIndexConfig.php --startover

Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Aran <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have some wikis running elastic search and after some development >> updates I find I need to rebuild the search indexes which I do as follows: >> >> .../CirrusSea

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with updateSearchIndexConfig.php --startover

them with the --namespace option?! On 31/03/17 13:02, Erik Bernhardson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Aran <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have some wikis running elastic search and after some development >> updates I find

[Wikitech-l] Problem with updateSearchIndexConfig.php --startover

search results... What is the proper command I should run to completely nuke and rebuild all indexes on a wiki? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch index incompleteness problem

This has finally been solved! The problem was a parser-function that relied on the $wgTitle global which was not available in the context of a command-line index update. Now it's using $parser->getTitle() instead of relying on a global and all results are present :-) Thanks for your help, A

Re: [Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch index incompleteness problem

wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Aran <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm managing some mediawiki 1.27.1's running CirrusSearch 0.2 with >> Elasticsearch 1.7.5. I been noticing that there are often search results >> missing so

[Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch index incompleteness problem

are: forceSearchIndex.php --skipLinks --indexOnSkip forceSearchIndex.php --skipParse Is this the correct way to do a full index rebuild? is there some parameter that can ensure that no pages get missed? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating a broken link

You need to add the "new" class to a link for it to be a red link, but there's no simple way to do this in standard wikitext markup. You'd have to something like enable raw html, add an extension that allows adding attributes to link syntax, or you maybe add a CSS rule so you could for example put

[Wikitech-l] New 1.27/1.28 login mechanism

the login form. What is the proper way I should be making the login page determine login without a login form? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Adding custom parameters to Elastica back-end

Hi Guys, I'm using CirrusSearch on mw1.27 and wondering if there's a way to add custom parameters to the Elastica back-end such as for example, "sort": ["namespace_text": "asc"] Thanks, Aran ___ Wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing a default system message

-L53 > > This example may be more complicated than what you need, but it's a > starting point from which you can simplify. here is a bit more > > -- Krinkle > > > > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Aran <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: > >> Hi, >

[Wikitech-l] Override system message from php

Can someone please tell me a way to override a system message such as 'nosuchuser' or 'wrongpassword' from PHP? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing a default system message

Oh sorry I mis-read your message, you mean the article not the file.. but still it would be preferable if the functionality could be all packaged into the extension without needing to apply content as well. On 22/10/16 16:15, James Hare wrote: > On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM, A

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing a default system message

: > On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Aran wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have an extension that change some of the default system messages for >> example "talk" to "comment", but since upgrading to 1.27 these messages >> no longer change. I've tried re

[Wikitech-l] Changing a default system message

ese default messages any more. New messages that the extension introduces can be changed no problem. Does anyone here know the proper procedure for doing this? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.w

Re: [Wikitech-l] SQLite Mediawiki support

I developed a MediaWikiLite system many years ago which worked reasonably well. It was for having a wiki on a memory stick that included the content and ability to edit it in the field without net access. It ran on SQLite and use Nanoweb, a web-server written in PHP to reduce dependencies further.

Re: [Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch index not update after edits

Ah yes that was the problem, the run rate was set to zero! Thanks a lot :-) On 07/08/16 16:03, John wrote: > Check your job queue? > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Aran <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've installed the current CirrusS

[Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch index not update after edits

$wgDisableSearchUpdate=true in LocalSettings.php and have tried settings it to false too. Any ideas what might be the trouble? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

preview. On 23/06/15 12:14, Ori Livneh wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Aran a...@organicdesign.co.nz wrote: Also for those that prefer the client to do the work I recently made an extension to use the highlight.js module at highlightjs.org. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

Also for those that prefer the client to do the work I recently made an extension to use the highlight.js module at highlightjs.org. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HighlightJS On 22/06/15 21:48, Ori Livneh wrote: Hello, Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the

[Wikitech-l] Getting article content

I just noticed that Article::getContent is deprecated now, and the code says that WikiPage::getContent is now the preferred method. What's the recommended way to get the current text content of a normal wikitext article now? Would it be this? $text =

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RfC] Feature to watch categorylinks

The the CategoryWatch extension was created a few years ago for this, but hasn't been updated in a long time so may need some minor fixes by now. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryWatch On 30/03/15 12:40, Kai Nissen wrote: Hi there, I created a Request for comments[1] and a

[Wikitech-l] Parsoid

Hello, I'm trying to install parsoid on Ubuntu 12. I installed nodejs from source, but when I try and install parsoid via apt-get it fails saying that it depends on nodejs (= 0.8.0) even though node --version returns v0.10.31! Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? Cheers, Aran

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid

Yeah I tried installing from apt-get first, but it installed 0.6.x, Ubuntu 12 is quite old now. On 28/08/14 13:23, Gabriel Wicke wrote: On 08/28/2014 08:46 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Aran a...@organicdesign.co.nz wrote: I'm trying to install parsoid

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid

Yeah that's what it installed, so then I uninstalled and did it from source instead. On 28/08/14 13:40, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: What happens when you just do a 'apt-get install nodejs' ? Presumably it installs

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid

: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Aran a...@organicdesign.co.nz wrote: I'm trying to install parsoid on Ubuntu 12. I installed nodejs from source, but when I try and install parsoid via apt-get it fails saying that it depends on nodejs (= 0.8.0) even though node --version returns v0.10.31

[Wikitech-l] Help Please! mangled special characters after import

are rendering with no problem...? I noticed that the mysqdump command was using --default-character-set=latin1 which may be a legacy setting now? Help much appreciated Thanks a lot, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help Please! mangled special characters after import

Problem solved thanks! Just needed the same default charset on import :-) On 10/07/14 16:36, Aran wrote: Hello, I've recently had a server disaster and had to recover my wiki from backup dumps. But after importing all the special characters are mangled causing many links to be broken

[Wikitech-l] Sub-categories in SMW

in Foo will show up in the results, but none of the sub-categories of Foo. Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sub-categories in SMW

Sorry I phrased that very badly, I meant: If I write the query {{#ask:[[Category:Foo]]}} then all the normal pages which are in Category:Foo will show up in the results, but none of the sub-categories of Foo (i.e. category pages which are members of Category:Foo). On 26/03/14 15:19, Aran

Re: [Wikitech-l] Comet

Wouldn't WebSocket be the better choice for a full duplex channel? On 14/11/13 21:12, Lee Worden wrote: In the MW extension development I'm doing, I'm thinking of writing some operations that use [[Comet_(programming)]] to deliver continuous updates to the client, rather than the Ajax pattern

Re: [Wikitech-l] New API options problem

My command was: action = 'options', token = $token, format = 'xml', change = 'realname=Foo Bar' Which resulted in success but did nothing. On 10/10/13 06:22, Andre Klapper wrote: Hi Aran, On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 16:53 -0300, Aran wrote: I'm trying to set a user's realname

[Wikitech-l] New API options problem

valid option such as password etc). But when I look in the user's preferences, or directly in the user db table there's nothing changed. Is there something else I need to configure? or is this a bug? Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with SVG thumbnails

Yep that's my problem, thanks a lot :-) On 02/07/13 07:28, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: This is most likely bug 45054, fixed in MediaWiki 1.21. It has a rather simple workaround, too, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45054 . ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Math rendering problem

binary with no errors. Any ideas what may be wrong? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Math rendering problem

anywhere to say why it's not been able to do it. On 02/07/13 12:32, Aran wrote: Hi Guys, I've just upgraded my wiki from 1.19.2 to 1.21.1 to fix the SVG rendering problem which now is all fine, but now my Math rendering has broken. I'm getting the following error: Failed to parse (PNG

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with SVG thumbnails

://www.organicdesign.co.nz/File:Nginx-logo.svg Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems uploading word 2007 .doc files

at 6:30 PM, Aran Dunkley a...@organicdesign.co.nzwrote: The file was a .doc, but I've tried changing it to docx and get the same result. Some other .doc and .docx files that are word 2007 upload no problem. But I don't see how it can complain when I have the MimeType verification disabled

[Wikitech-l] Problems uploading word 2007 .doc files

Hello, can someone please help me with this .doc upload problem? I've tried everything and even setting $wgVerifyMimeType to false fails to solve it. No matter what I do I keep getting the following error when I upload *some* word 2007 .doc files: The file is a corrupt or otherwise unreadable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems uploading word 2007 .doc files

since only specific users can upload. p.s. this is a MW 1.19.2 on Ubuntu Server 11.10 with PHP 5.3.6 On 07/01/13 21:21, Matma Rex wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:47:58 +0100, Aran Dunkley a...@organicdesign.co.nz wrote: Hello, can someone please help me with this .doc upload problem? I've tried

[Wikitech-l] Clone a specific extension version

Hi Guys, How do I get a specific version of an extension using git? I want to get Validator 0.4.1.4 and Maps 1.0.5, but I can't figure out how to use git to do this... Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] Awful trouble with 1.19 adding p to html

Hello, does anyone here know why the parser insists on adding p tags to HTML results returned by parser functions? I'm trying to upgrade the TreeAndMenu extension to work with MediaWiki 1.19 and I can't get the parser to stop adding p tags throughout the result returned by the parser-function

Re: [Wikitech-l] Awful trouble with 1.19 adding p to html

/2012 07:56, Aran Dunkley wrote: Hello, does anyone here know why the parser insists on adding p tags to HTML results returned by parser functions? I'm trying to upgrade the TreeAndMenu extension to work with MediaWiki 1.19 and I can't get the parser to stop adding p tags throughout the result

[Wikitech-l] Clone an extension from a specific REL branch

Hi, I'm just wondering how to clone an extension for a particular branch... e.g. using Subversion I could do this: svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_18/extensions/CheckUser What's the equivalent git command to get that same version of the extension? Thanks, Aran

[Wikitech-l] Technical questions regarding categorisation

creates a new revision, but the manual process does something more which places the article into the category page properly. Cheers, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles meta tag

I noticed that new MediaWiki installations have a new meta tag which is not in the HTML specification and means that MediaWiki sites cannot be made W3C compliant. For example, running the validator over mediawiki.org gives the following error (amongst a few others complaining about deprecrated

Re: [Wikitech-l] Loading jQuery

I've figured it out now thanks :) the problem was that my scripts had things running inline that needed to be deferred until after the JS modules had loaded. On 02/08/11 18:10, Roan Kattouw wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Aran Dunkley a...@organicdesign.co.nz wrote: Yes I'm using both

[Wikitech-l] Loading jQuery

( array( 'jquery.ui' ) ); But nothing I do will actually get the script to load and become available, can anyone tell me the new syntax to get jQuery there? Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Loading jQuery

to get the jQuery scripts to load. The browsers error log just says that the $, jQuery and other functions aren't defined. On 01/08/11 23:51, Jelle Zijlstra wrote: Are you aware that jQuery and jQuery UI are two different things? 2011/8/1 Aran Dunkley a...@organicdesign.co.nz Hello, I'm trying

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nuking deleted pages and their revisions

Hello, I have a lot of deleted pages in my wiki and was wondering how to free up the database by getting rid of them completely. I don't want to loose the history of the pages that aren't deleted though, is there an extension for this? Thanks, Aran

[Wikitech-l] Cite extension problem

Hello, I've just upgraded the Cite extension on our wikis and it's now giving me this error on all refs: Cite error: Ran out of custom link labels for group . Define more in the [[MediaWiki:cite_link_label_group-]] message.], does anyone know the quickest way to fix this?

[Wikitech-l] Database dump character set problems

it no matter what I use for export or import. A solution would be greatly appreciated as their site has been down for almost a week now while trying to solve this. Thanks, Aran ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database dump character set problems

`page_random` (`page_random`), KEY `page_len` (`page_len`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=19105 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COLLATE=latin1_spanish_ci Platonides wrote: Aran Dunkley escribió: Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help with this multibyte character corruption: http

Re: [Wikitech-l] GoogleWave extension

If the Google Wave Fedaration Protocol is really all its cracked up to be and becomes a properly open XMPP extension maintained by the IETF then it could be good to support it at the level of the back end along with the database classes... Magnus Manske wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:07 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

I've had this trouble too, I just commented out the offending line - that could be a problem under some specific condition, but it works fine for me as an interim solution. O. O. wrote: Brad Jorsch wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:47:18PM -0700, O. O. wrote: I have installed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Illegal mix of collations after upgrade to 1.14

Hi I've tried upgrading my 1.11 to 1.14 and get this illegal mix of collations error. I went through the normal upgrade procedure first but this failed, so I then tried exporting as XML and importing into a completely fresh 1.14 install, and still I get the error! I've found that by setting

[Wikitech-l] Backward compatibility in svn extensions

Hi I'm just wondering what the policy is with regards to changes to extension code in the svn in the case where the modification is compatible only with recent versions. Shouldn't extensions be designed to be as backward compatible as is practical rather than focussing exclusively on

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)

I've looked in to this a little but still in quite a pie in the sky way, I made the sqlite db layer with the idea of it being simpler to incorporate into a client based mediawikilite app, I made some notes at these articles: http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/MediaWikiLite