Re: [Wikitech-l] varchar(255) binary in tables.sql

2010-06-07 Thread Ryan Chan
Hi, On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: No. The BMP problem is only present with the MySQL 4.1/5.0 UTF-8 option. It seems 5.0 and 5.1 support for UTF-8 are the same http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode.html

Re: [Wikitech-l] varchar(255) binary in tables.sql

2010-06-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Do you mean to say the way MySQL supports Unicode is the same ie the way it is stored? Thanks, GerardM On 7 June 2010 17:17, Ryan Chan ryanchan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: No. The BMP problem is only present with

[Wikitech-l] Unified login on some of the newer WMF sites (usability, outreach, strategy)

2010-06-07 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, It might just be my browser's strange cookie handling, but it seems to me that a number of WMF programme wikis don't log me in automatically, nowadays. Is it possible to enable automatic login on some of the special project wikis that have been set up lately? (E.g., strategy wiki and the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailman archives not being updated

2010-06-07 Thread Tim Starling
On 06/06/10 03:20, Mike.lifeguard wrote: Hi, It seems Fred stopped the archive updates: 03:57 Fred: shutting down mailman on list for a few minutes while exim and spamd catch up ...but I don't see a note that it was restarted, and new emails are not appearing in the archives. Can this

[Wikitech-l] 'latest' wikipedia dumps?

2010-06-07 Thread Eric Sun
Hi, I noticed that on the latest enwiki dumps page, http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/ the latest pages-articles.xml.bz2 is dated 2010-Mar-16. However, there's a pages-articles.xml.bz2 on http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100514/ dated 2010-May-19. Is there a reason why the 'latest'

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login on some of the newer WMF sites (usability, outreach, strategy)

2010-06-07 Thread Platonides
Bence Damokos wrote: Hi, It might just be my browser's strange cookie handling, but it seems to me that a number of WMF programme wikis don't log me in automatically, nowadays. Is it possible to enable automatic login on some of the special project wikis that have been set up lately?

Re: [Wikitech-l] 'latest' wikipedia dumps?

2010-06-07 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
The copy of the May 14 dump that you see is incomplete. It was pulled from a run that is happening on another filesystem. This is why you don't see updated status on the index page. Sometime soon (we hope this week?) its progress should be visible publically, but it is nowhere near completion.

Re: [Wikitech-l] varchar(255) binary in tables.sql

2010-06-07 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Ryan Chan ryanchan...@gmail.com wrote: It seems 5.0 and 5.1 support for UTF-8 are the same http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-unicode.html Yes, but the binary encoding doesn't use MySQL's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pending Changes deployment strategy (Re: Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) launch on June 14 (PDT))

2010-06-07 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think [deploying the new FlaggedRevs to all wikis] makes any sense at all. What I'd do is: * Update FlaggedRevs_alpha to the desired state and check it on the labs wikis * Switch wikis from FlaggedRevs to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pending Changes deployment strategy (Re: Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) launch on June 14 (PDT))

2010-06-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/6/8 Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org: What Aaron says is that the use of FlaggedRevs_alpha on flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org involves some more hacks than merely using a different branch.  There are also some configuration changes that disable the message cache and possibly some other

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pending Changes deployment strategy (Re: Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) launch on June 14 (PDT))

2010-06-07 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/8 Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org: So, now we've got two different options [for deploying FlaggedRevs]: 1. If it's even possible, figure out how to work around the message cache race condition [and deploy

[Wikitech-l] Selenium testing framework - Fix available in Revision 67575?

2010-06-07 Thread Michelle Knight
Hi, I am following up on a thread from May 27th where there is a bug in run Selenium Tests. I was wondering if the fix for Run Selenium Tests is available in Revision 67575 found at http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/PagedTiffHandler/tests/