Re: [Wikitech-l] Unstable search results - possible causes

I'm running a self-hosted wiki, so unfortunately can't provide a URL. The search is performed on the standard [[Special:Search]] page. It may matter that we're running the wiki on two servers, using Percona MySQL for data replication between the servers. A load balancer sends users to whichever

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unstable search results - possible causes

Hi! > I'm using the built-in Mediawiki search engine. We just updated from 1.30.0 > to 1.31.0. Since the update, search results are unstable. The same search > term gives different results in different web browsers. We also see different > results across browser sessions. Any advice on how I ca

[Wikitech-l] Unstable search results - possible causes

I'm using the built-in Mediawiki search engine. We just updated from 1.30.0 to 1.31.0. Since the update, search results are unstable. The same search term gives different results in different web browsers. We also see different results across browser sessions. Any advice on how I can troubleshoo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—March 6th

This is a reminder that the Search Platform Office Hours are tomorrow! On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:34 AM Trey Jones wrote: > The Search Platform Team > usually holds > office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come ask us anything a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Read access to patrolled flag in wikimedia API

As far as I know Brian is right, the patrol status in recentchanges is not public. However, the patrol log is, so with a bit of effort you should be able to mostly reconstruct whether a revision is patrolled or not. (I thought about reporting this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Read access to patrolled flag in wikimedia API

Are you sure that patrol status is shown as colour coding on history pages? I'm pretty sure its not. If you mean kind of the dim yellow colour (like in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Adult_Swim&action=history for the moment, but that will likely change soo

[Wikitech-l] Read access to patrolled flag in wikimedia API

Hi, we are using wikimedia http api for getting pages recent changes [1]. We'd like to be able to distinguish patrolled and unpatrolled revisions and this feature is supported according to docs, but we still can't use it because of access permissions. For example if i making requests like [2] or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for a mentor with experience in building tools for Wikimedia

Hi everyone! Just to follow up: it seems that we indeed have found someone to help out here. Info about the tool is not online yet, but will be soon, I hope. It'll be a tool on Toolforge, providing an easy interface for beginners/laypeople to easily add microcontributions of structured metadata to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for a mentor with experience in building tools for Wikimedia

Hi, Thanks for the clarifications Andre. This was just to get interested folks who were experienced in developing tools on Toolforge using WM technologies which are e already have. Eugene On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 10:22 Andre Klapper wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 13:07 +0100, Egbe Eugene w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for a mentor with experience in building tools for Wikimedia

Hi, On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 13:07 +0100, Egbe Eugene wrote: > In view of building a tool which will help users contribute to add > structured data on WM Commons, there's need for someone with experience to > supervise in the development and testing of this tool. Could you please be way more specifi