Re: [Toolserver-l] Interwiki handling on the toolserver. (Was: FYI: Changing of interwiki-bots-account-approval)
Purodha Blissenbach wrote: > While we're at it - in the future, we shall have interwiki bots reading the > replicated data bases to a great extent while gathering informations about > existing and prseumably missing interwiki links. This will be sparing lots of > request to the wmf servers which will then be bothered only when wiki pages > are actually altered. > > Using the replicated data instead of making http (api) requests should speed > up the data collection phase of large inteerwiki groups from several minutes > to a seconds or so. > > Another approach of making interwiki bots use the replicated data would > be to pre-process their interwiki data into a list or table of versioned > change requests, being published on the toolserver. > Interwiki worker bots running elsewhere would pick requests from the list & > process them. Picked requests are postponed for a while until replicated > data renders them done, or until a timeout (>replication lag) is exhausted. > > Greetings - Purodha There's a strong argument for rewriting interwiki.py Does anyone know what an interwiki bot should actually do? Seems worth to determine the Right Algorithm to be used when automatically resolving interwikis. MZMcBride wrote: > Do you know the status of getting a solution built in to MediaWiki (either > in core or in an extension) that could make interwiki.py completely > obsolete? It's my _strong_ recommendation that development effort be put > into a real solution rather than focusing on ways to make interwiki.py suck > less. > > MZMcBride Last discussion http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/50203 Any work there is likely to wait for merging the interwiki transclusion branch. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] Hardware failure affecting s2/s5
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Tong Minh: > It's amazing how fast you guys fixed this issue. Well, mostly I just sit at home and call Sun, and they send someone to fix the problem. So the speed of the fix is directly proportional to how much we pay Sun ;-) - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkz4/w0ACgkQIXd7fCuc5vK51gCeN4qs90epFt+FSnZGgoLf0rfM ZmUAnAtz5S61Z7bUeEg6Dx52XuETaw9Y =tnnS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] Hardware failure affecting s2/s5
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:59 PM, River Tarnell wrote: > The suspected faulty part has been replaced and MySQL is now running again. > We will continue to monitor the system over the weekend. > It's amazing how fast you guys fixed this issue. Good job! Bryan ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] Hardware failure affecting s2/s5
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The suspected faulty part has been replaced and MySQL is now running again. We will continue to monitor the system over the weekend. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkz499EACgkQIXd7fCuc5vLV7wCgpqVl73Grww9JCDRuGfpusWNs hWcAniCSQtXESiQ3mPJ63TR/83xnYTRy =4eEz -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] Hardware failure affecting s2/s5
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It looks like the server failed entirely overnight, so s2/s5 is unavailable for now. Unfortunately the engineer bought the wrong parts this morning, so we will try again this afternoon. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkz4wPwACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIutACfVWk5fkZHfHD7Hi7c6nSbY0fn zuYAoIxGShKW5PtE+gscNOLJfvxH12pH =kQG2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
