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

2009-02-23 Thread Marco Schuster
2009/2/22 Robert Ullmann rlullm...@gmail.com: Want everyone to just dynamically crawl the live DB, with whatever screwy lousy inefficiency? FIne, just continue as you are, where that is all that can be relied upon! Even if you had the dumps, you have another problem: They're incredibly big and

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

2009-02-23 Thread Lars Aronsson
Ariel T. Glenn wrote: The reason these dumps are not rewritten more efficiently is that this job was handed to me (at my request) and I have not been able to get to it, even though it is the first thing on my list for development work. [...] The in-office needs that I am also

[Wikitech-l] devious looking $bookstoreList

2009-02-23 Thread jidanni
You must excuse me but if you take a look in mediawiki-1.14.0rc1/languages/messages/MessagesRu.php there's this hundreds of bytes long string of z's etc. at $bookstoreList. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2009-02-23 Thread Russell Blau
Russell Blau russb...@hotmail.com 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] Javascript localization, minify, gzip cache forever

2009-02-23 Thread Michael Dale
... I was looking at commons upload form JavaScript load profile is like a long waterfall or rather a steep river :( http://metavid.org/promo/round_trips.png Would be much nicer do 1 or 2 request instead of 27 ... true... a lot are gadgets and what not.. but even on a not logged in Main page

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile gateway testing

2009-02-23 Thread Michael Rosenthal
The page history is completely missing, as well as a link to the GFDL-copy, the mobile mirror is therefore not GFDL-conform. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I think for anything other than casual browsing, using native clients would be better. Perfect use

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript localization, minify, gzip cache forever

2009-02-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/23/09 11:35 AM, Michael Dale wrote: *snip* Like the localization msg system this logic is hampered by the fact the script loader is /optional/. If we required the script loader it could be simpler: *nod* I don't think it's really feasible to make use of the loader optional and still keep

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

2009-02-23 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Στις 23-02-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 19:02 +, ο/η Thomas Dalton έγραψε: 2009/2/23 Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org: The reason these dumps are not rewritten more efficiently is that this job was handed to me (at my request) and I have not been able to get to it, even though it is the

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

2009-02-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/23/09 3:08 AM, Marco Schuster wrote: Even if you had the dumps, you have another problem: They're incredibly big and so a bit difficult to parse. So, a small suggestion if the dumps will ever be workin' again: Split the history and current db stuff by alphabet, please. Define alphabet --

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

2009-02-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/23/09 12:13 PM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: I asked for it, and that's why it was assigned to me. I should have recognized much sooner that I could not actually get it done and should have brought this to Brion's attention instead of continuing to hang on to it after he brought it to my

Re: [Wikitech-l] action=view links for [[:Category:With members, but no text]]

2009-02-23 Thread jidanni
BTM == Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com writes: BTM On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:16 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: How can one link to a [[:Category:With members, but no text]] but with no action=edit produced? BTM You could create a hook to LinkBegin that sets $options[] = 'known' if

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary TOO

2009-02-23 Thread Platonides
jidanni wrote: Can somebody please tell me how to regain the previous functionality? I assume I should remove my $wgSpamRegex, and instead use $wgFilterCallback with an array of my patterns, testing only on wpTextbox1. Is there any simple example other than

[Wikitech-l] Extension:SpamBlacklist download painful

2009-02-23 Thread jidanni
Am I doing something wrong? On http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist we see to download, we are to go to http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SpamBlacklist/ wherein apparently it takes a lot of clicking,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:SpamBlacklist download painful

2009-02-23 Thread jidanni
KP == K Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au writes: KP http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/SpamBlacklist OK, I tried it, but Download MediaWiki extension From MediaWiki.org Invalid response from remote subversion client. ___

[Wikitech-l] gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical missing messages

2009-02-23 Thread jidanni
ND == Nicolas Dumazet nicd...@gmail.com writes: ND 2009/2/24 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Platonides? I didn't see that message from Platonides here on http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical . But there it is in

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

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Ullmann
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Andrew Garrett and...@werdn.us wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Robert Ullmann rlullm...@gmail.com wrote: Really? I mean is this for real? The sequence ought to be something like: breaker trips, monitor shows within a minute or two that 4 servers are

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

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Ullmann
Let me ask a separate question (Ariel may be interested in this): What if we took the regular permanent media backups, and WMF filtered them in house just to remove the classified stuff (;-), and then put them somewhere where others could convert them to the desired format(s)? (Build all-history