Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector skin not working on BlackBerry?

2010-05-13 Thread Russell Blau
"David Gerard" wrote in message news:aanlktin9qhcgvataegsdrwjuc-jegj-iwdg6f9oyt...@mail.gmail.com... > There's a few comments on the Wikimedia blog saying they can't access > en:wp any more using their BlackBerry. Though we tried it here on an > 8900 and it works. Any other reports? Works fine u

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with Upload API

2009-10-21 Thread Russell Blau
[adding mediawiki-api since this seems to be more relevant to that list] "Bryan Tong Minh" wrote: >On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Russell Blau wrote: >>> --abc >>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"; filename="%s" >>> Content-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with Upload API

2009-10-21 Thread Russell Blau
"Bryan Tong Minh" wrote in message news:fd5886130910210324l409d2cc6m31831366ae4bb...@mail.gmail.com... > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jan Luca wrote: > [...] >> Content-Type: multipart/form-data >> Content-Length: ".strlen($file)." >> Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"".$filename."\";

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump throughput

2009-05-07 Thread Russell Blau
"Tomasz Finc" wrote in message news:4a032be3.60...@wikimedia.org... > > Commons finished just fine along with every single one of the other > small & mid size wiki's waiting to be picked up. Now were just left with > the big sized wiki's to finish. This is probably a stupid question (because it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump throughput

2009-05-05 Thread Russell Blau
"Erik Zachte" wrote in message news:002d01c9cd8d$3355beb0$9a013c...@com... > Tomasz, the amount of dump power that you managed to activate is > impressive. > 136 dumps yesterday, today already 110 :-) Out of 760 total. > Of course there are small en large dumps, but this is very encouraging. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump process does not work

2009-05-01 Thread Russell Blau
"Tomasz Finc" wrote in message news:49fb3ca6.90...@wikimedia.org... Brion Vibber wrote: >> El 5/1/09 5:51 PM, Andreas Meier escribió: >>> Since today the dump process does not work correctly. It is running, but >>> without any success >> >> Tomasz is on it... we've upgraded the machine they run o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump status update

2009-02-24 Thread Russell Blau
"Brion Vibber" wrote in message news:49a42729.4070...@wikimedia.org... > Quick update on dump status: > > * Dumps are back up and running on srv31, the old dump batch host. > > Please note that unlike the wikis sites themselves, dump activity is > *not* considered time-critical -- there is no eme

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump processes seem to be dead

2009-02-23 Thread Russell Blau
"Russell Blau" wrote in message news:gnuacf$hf...@ger.gmane.org... > > I have to second this. I tried to report this outage several times last > week - on IRC, on this mailing list, and on Bugzilla. All reports -- NOT > COMPLAINTS, JUST REPORTS -- were met with absolute

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump processes seem to be dead

2009-02-23 Thread Russell Blau
"Lars Aronsson" wrote in message news:pine.lnx.4.64.0902231202140.1...@localhost.localdomain... > > However, quite independent of your development work, the current > system for dumps seems to have stopped on February 12. That's the > impression I get from looking at > http://download.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Double redirects

2009-02-19 Thread Russell Blau
"Chad" wrote in message news:5924f50a0902020609q542047cfme84b9237eec38...@mail.gmail.com... > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Russell Blau wrote: ... >> 3) How can the users (not sysadmins) of a given wiki determine what the >> value of $wgMaxRedirects is for their w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump processes seem to be dead

2009-02-17 Thread Russell Blau
"Andreas Meier" wrote in message news:4997d645.8050...@gmx.de... > Hello, > > the current dump building seem to be dead and perhaps should be killed > by hand. > Reported: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17535 ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special pages

2009-02-17 Thread Russell Blau
"Rotem Liss" wrote in message news:499a7134.5090...@gmail.com... > Brion Vibber wrote: >> Last week some of the background batch jobs were reorganized to run >> under a less privileged user account, a good security practice. >> >> Unfortunately the log files the batch jobs logged to didn't have t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special pages

2009-02-13 Thread Russell Blau
"Brion Vibber" wrote in message news:49949007.4090...@wikimedia.org... > On 2/12/09 2:02 AM, Huib Laurens wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Can somebody give a status update about when the special pages will be >> updated again? (like broken redirects or double redirects) The stopt >> updating for almost a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Double redirects

2009-02-02 Thread Russell Blau
"Chad" wrote in message news:5924f50a0902020609q542047cfme84b9237eec38...@mail.gmail.com... >> 3) How can the users (not sysadmins) of a given wiki determine what the >> value of $wgMaxRedirects is for their wiki? In particular, what value is >> being used currently on enwiki and other WMF proj

[Wikitech-l] Double redirects

2009-02-02 Thread Russell Blau
It appears that since r45973, there is an enhancement to MediaWiki that allows the software to follow double redirects, and conceivably triple- and higher-level redirects, up to a configurable limit ($wgMaxRedirects). This raises a few questions: 1) Should [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] be chang

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enwiki dump crawling since 10/15/2008

2009-01-28 Thread Russell Blau
"Brion Vibber" wrote in message news:497f9c35.9050...@wikimedia.org... > On 1/27/09 2:55 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Brion Vibber >> wrote: >>> On 1/27/09 2:35 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: The way I see it, what we need is to get a really powerful server >>> Nope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enwiki Dump Crawling since 10/15/2008

2009-01-05 Thread Russell Blau
wrote in message news:1c624fe40901040620g1c69d070q9f830da33e84f...@mail.gmail.com... > The current enwiki database dump > (http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/) has been crawling > along since 10/15/2008. ... > Is this purposeful? And is there anything I (or other community > members)