Re: date delinking principles relating to the technical community

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Platonides <Platonides <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> While enabling a never-used feature is a difficult process, disabling
> one is hardly a problem.

Most features can't actually be disabled, so this isn't really true.

> Mediawiki developers try hard to maintain all the used functionality,
> and is unlikely to decide by themselves disabling a feature actively
> used (although such events can't be completely discarded, eg. as an
> effect of a rewrite).

This isn't too infrequent -- the common reason is efficiency.

Dump process does not work

Since today the dump process does not work correctly. It is running, but 
without any success

Best regards

Andim

Problem upgrading from 1.5.8 to 1.14.0

Hi all,

I am trying to upgrade an old mediawiki installation (version 1.5.8) to 
the latest version, following the upgrade instructions here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading_to_1.14

I backed up the database and files from the old installation and 
unpacked the new version over the top of my existing installation using 
the following command:

tar xvfz mediawiki-1.14.0.tar.gz -C /path/to/my/wiki/ --strip-components=1

I then updated AdminSettings.php to be my root mysql user, changed to 
the maintenance directory and ran:

php update.php --aconf ../AdminSettings.php

This gave me the following output:

> # php update.php --aconf ../AdminSettings.php
>
> MediaWiki 1.14.0 Updater
>
> Going to run database updates for ccbi_micklem
> Depending on the size of your database this may take a while!
> Abort with control-c in the next five seconds...0
> ...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table.
> ...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table.
> ...already have interwiki table

Re: Dump process does not work

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 on and it needs 
some more tweaking. :)

-- brion

Re: Dump process does not work

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 on and it needs 
> some more tweaking. :)
> 
> -- brion
> 
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Indeed. The backup job was missing the php normalize library. Putting 
that into place now. Then I'll see if there is any db weirdness.

--tomasz

New SVN committers

Added a few more folks from the queue, welcome aboard!

alexsh (Alexsh) - Chinese localization, PyWikipediaBot updates, etc
jan (Jan Luca) - TSPoll extension & misc
rfong (Roger Fong) - Wikinvest stock chart extension
robin (SPQRobin) - WikimediaIncubator extension & misc

As always, please see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access for 
notes on using the developer SVN. (Please don't forget to set up your 
auto-props configuration so new files are properly marked for 
cross-platform line endings!)

Please add any new requests to the request queue at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access_requests

If I haven't gotten to you yet that doesn't mean I hate you forever, 
don't worry. :) Just got to dig through some more stuff...

-- brion

Re: Dump process does not work

"Tomasz Finc" <tfinc <at> wikimedia.org> wrote in message 
news:49FB3CA6.90602 <at> 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 on and it needs
>> some more tweaking. :)
>>
> Indeed. The backup job was missing the php normalize library. Putting
> that into place now. Then I'll see if there is any db weirdness.

But, on the bright side, every database in the system now has a dump that 
was completed within the last nine hours (roughly).  When's the last time 
you could say *that*?  

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Re: Dump process does not work

Russell Blau wrote:
> "Tomasz Finc" <tfinc <at> wikimedia.org> wrote in message 
> news:49FB3CA6.90602 <at> 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 on and it needs
>>> some more tweaking. :)
>>>
>> Indeed. The backup job was missing the php normalize library. Putting
>> that into place now. Then I'll see if there is any db weirdness.
> 
> But, on the bright side, every database in the system now has a dump that 
> was completed within the last nine hours (roughly).  When's the last time 
> you could say *that*?  

Mwhaha .. that would be awesome if it was actually useful data. The 
libs, binaries and configs have all been fixed. I've run a couple of 
batch jobs for the small wikis [tokiponawiktionary, emlwiki] and am 
running [afwiki] right now to try a bigger data set. No issues so far 
past the main page not noticing them finishing.

After afwiki finishes up I'll remove the failed runs as they don't 
provide us with any useful data. Will set the worker to begin processing 
after that. Plus I'll actually document the setup.

--tomasz

Re: Dump process does not work

2009/5/1 Russell Blau <russblau <at> hotmail.com>:
> But, on the bright side, every database in the system now has a dump that
> was completed within the last nine hours (roughly).  When's the last time
> you could say *that*?  
>
Yes, and those dumps are 20-byte .gz files. Oops.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

Re: Dump process does not work

Document the dump process? You must be joking :)

-Chad

On May 1, 2009 3:24 PM, "Tomasz Finc" <tfinc <at> wikimedia.org> wrote:

Russell Blau wrote: > "Tomasz Finc" <tfinc <at> wikimedia.org> wrote in message >
news:49FB3CA6.90602 <at> wi...
Mwhaha .. that would be awesome if it was actually useful data. The
libs, binaries and configs have all been fixed. I've run a couple of
batch jobs for the small wikis [tokiponawiktionary, emlwiki] and am
running [afwiki] right now to try a bigger data set. No issues so far
past the main page not noticing them finishing.

After afwiki finishes up I'll remove the failed runs as they don't
provide us with any useful data. Will set the worker to begin processing
after that. Plus I'll actually document the setup.

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