gmane.org.wikimedia.toolserver

Block mail from dysgo.org?

Christopher David Howie — 2012-05-19T18:17:19

We've been receiving messages from this domain at unblock< at >toolserver.org
and they appear to be related to this:
<http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/l44r1/i_just_got_this_email_at_work_i_have_no_idea_what/>.
 Viral advertising for some film.  In reality, it's a message with a
crapload of images attached serving no purpose for us.

Can we just block this whole domain from sending mail to toolserver
accounts?  It's a nuisance, and the messages are quite large.

Out of memory/segfaults?

Hersfold Wikipedia — 2012-05-14T20:12:32

I've gotten four error messages from my bot today, several relating to out
of memory errors or segfaults. This bot has run without error for months,
and never messes directly with memory, using the built-in Java stuff for
file handling. Is something wrong with willow?

Messages in order:
14:00 UTC:
Segmentation Fault - core dumped

16:00 UTC:
ld.so.1: sh: fatal: mmap anon failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

Followed by:
ld.so.1: uname: fatal: /lib/libc.so.1: mmap failed: Resource temporarily
unavailable
error: JSV stderr: Out of memory!
Unable to run job: JSV stderr: Out of memory!
JSV stderr is - Out of memory!.
Exiting

18:00 UTC apparently ran just fine, no errors reported...

20:00 UTC:
/opt/local/bin/cronsub[56]: 8239 Segmentation Fault(coredump)

----
User:Hersfold
hersfoldwiki< at >gmail.com

Sent from my Windows Phone

Spam problem on Toolserver wiki

MZMcBride — 2012-05-06T21:34:00

Hi.

https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Special:Log/block

I think there's already a Math CAPTCHA enabled, but clearly this
script/bot/whatever has defeated that. Not sure what needs doing.

MZMcBride

Dumps

John — 2012-05-05T16:24:04

I was taking a look at our dumps in user-store and none of them are
compressed, and I was socked about that. I know a lot of people use
pywikipedia to parse the dumps, and I know it can handle the bz2 files. any
reason we dont just make them all bz2?

John

Renaming my account

محمد الجداوي — 2012-05-04T01:10:40

Hello, I request changing my
account's<https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/User:M.gedawy>name, on
toolserver wiki, from "M.gedawy" to "محمد الجداوي". As i have
problems with logging in using my current name. Thanks.

Day of the open linux-server

DaB. — 2012-05-03T11:26:34

Hello all,

while the SGE-update will need some more time (see my last mail), I think it 
is a good idea to finish the installation of linux on yarrow and nightshade 
soon. Because the roots can not think of everything and your feedback which 
Debian-packages should be installed was smaller than expected, I hereby 
announce a Open-Linux-Server-day for

Thursday, 10. May between 10:00 and 22:00 UTC.

During this time, login for normal users will be possible and it will also be 
possible to run code/scripts/editors/whatever. After 22 o'clock user-login 
will be disabled again and the box will get a reboot.

On this way I hope that we all will notice the last problems before the linux-
boxes will go into the productive state soon after.

Sincerely,
DaB.

Monthly report 2012-04

DaB. — 2012-04-29T16:46:19

Hello all,

since a few months a weekly report [1] about events in the german-speaking 
Wikipedia and the Wikimedia-organizations is send to a few mailing-lists; I 
think that this is a very good idea and so I will try to establish something 
similar for the TS too (on monthly base). For the soon-ending April I wrote a 
short report below and I think we can all together write a report for May on a 
wiki-page [2].

Sincerely,
DaB.

= Report for April 2012 =

== s2 and s6 corrupt ==
It was discovered this month that the databases of s6 [A] and s2 [B] are 
defect and will need a re-import. A dump of s6 was already requested at 2. 
April at the WMF, but no response yet. A dump for s2 will be requested soon.
*[A]; https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1228
*[B]: https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1348


== s1 is back to normal ==
Both server for s1 (enwiki) are back to normal [A].
*[A]: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2012-
April/000484.html


==Interwiki-Bot-MMP-rule is in charge ==

Interwiki bot MMP planning

Toto Azéro — 2012-04-28T11:47:35

Hi all !
I'd like to remind everyone of you that *we* have to organize the MMP interwikit-bot *before* 15th May ! It just remains a couple of weeks now, so it's beginning to become an emergency… 
If nothing's done at that date, DaB said he would "kill and disable every longrunning interwiki-bot that [he] find[s]." (see http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-April/004913.html)

MF-Warburg created https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Interwiki_bot_MMP_planning nearly two months ago, but only Luckas Blade, Merlissimo and I had completed it… So we are 3 interested persons at the moment, but all from wikipedia-projects (respectively from ptwiki, dewiki and frwiki), whereas DaB wanted one from a non-wikipedia-project…

So two questions actually : 
1) does the actual group (composed of Luckas Blade, Merlissimo and me) suit to you ?
2) is there anybody else interested in joining it ?

Regards,
— Toto Azéro

Family file

محمد الجداوي — 2012-04-27T19:35:04

Hello. Although i update my pywikipedia file daily, the following phrase
appears when i run my bot on cmd or toolserver:
"WARNING: Family file wikipedia contains version number 1.19wmf1, but it
should be 1.20wmf1"
What does it mean and how can i solve it?

Maintenance on Friday

Marlen Caemmerer — 2012-04-25T14:22:03

Hello,

in parallel to DaBPunkts SGE update maintenance I will do some database host maintenance.
hyacinth which holds s3, s4, s6 and s7 will be rebooted and afterwards more space will be added to cassia which holds s2 and s5.
I will start my work at 8 pm UTC.


Regards
 Marlen/nosy

SGE-Maintenance at Thursday and Friday

DaB. — 2012-04-23T15:54:00

Hello all,

I will give the SGE-update (see my mail from last time [1]) another try this 
week and so I hereby announce downtime of the SGE-system on Thursday between 
19:00 and 23:00 UTC. If the update is not successful on Thursday I will give 
it another try at Friday between 19:00 and 23:00 UTC.
During the downtime no SGE-process will start on any server, while 
processes/jobs that had started already will continue to run; jobs which are 
queued at the beginning of the maintenance-window will start after the window 
is done.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Sincerely,
DaB.

P.S: Just to be clear: There will be ONLY maintenance on the SGE, not on the 
databases like last time.

[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2012-March/004802.html

Toolserver having a bad day?

DeltaQuad — 2012-04-22T04:51:15

Ok, so i've checked status.toolserver.org and have found nothing going
on but some stuff has been breaking at random points today.

I've had a Cron job return:
Subject: Cron <deltaquad< at >willow> cronsub IPBEBot $HOME/IPBE/IPBE.py

/opt/local/bin/cronsub[44]: 9793 Killed


I've had another return:
Subject: Cron <deltaquad< at >willow> cronsub UAABot $HOME/UAA/UAA.py

error: not enough memory to allocate 2404 bytes in init_packbuffer
Unable to run job: Error reading answer list from qmaster.
Exiting.

And then on a MMP (yes this is a customized message):

The x script has failed. The error message received was:
<b>A database error occured when attempting to process your request: </b><br />Failed to connect to database server !
Please check the database to resolve this issue and ensure that private data is removed on schedule.


Is it what we have running or is this a toolserver issue in general? and
should I file a bug?

(SysAdmins - Especially DaB. please don't take this as me being
critical, I just wanna help if I

I will be away between Wednesday and Sunday

DaB. — 2012-04-15T19:28:40

Hello all,

I will be away between Wednesday (18.) and Sunday (22.) because of my duties 
as cash auditor (Kassenprüfer) of the WMDE. I guess that there will be time to 
read my mail, but I will not be in chat during this time-frame. So if you have 
a request, open a bug in JIRA (like you should always do ;)) and try to reach 
Nosy if it is urgent.

Sincerely,
DaB.

Rules clarifications

MZMcBride — 2012-04-15T15:12:30

Hi.

I have two clarification requests regarding the Toolserver rules
(<https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules>):

1. There's a new rule now in effect regarding interwiki bots.[1] How will
this rule be enforced?

2. There's currently a rule requiring every bot user page to mention that
the bot runs on the Toolserver.[2] I don't think this rule is followed very
closely (I don't think any of my bots mention where they're hosted at the
moment). I believe this rule originated due to a desire to avoid inadvertent
autoblock damage on the Toolserver's IP addresses if a bad bot were blocked.
But most wikis now whitelist the Toolserver's IP range using
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Autoblock_whitelist>. Is this rule
still necessary and/or in effect?

MZMcBride

[1] Text: After 2. April 2012 the continuous running of langlink-bots (also
named interwikibots) is only allowed for the Multi-Maintainer-Project
"interwikibot".

[2] Text: You have to add a line at the bot-userpage, that the bot runs at
the toolser

Blocking of hacking attacks IP addresses?

Danny B. — 2012-04-15T12:23:11

In my 404 log I often see various hacking and spamming attempts looking for known website weaknesses.

I would like to propose to totally block such IP addresses from accessing Toolserver.

What do you think about such approach?


Kind regards


Danny B.

Updating pywikipedia

محمد الجداوي — 2012-04-10T19:23:04

Hi all. Every day i update my pywikipedia folder on toolserver by typing:
svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia
How can i make a cron for updating every day at 10:03 p.m? Thanks in
advance.

smtpd not listening on IPv6?

Christopher David Howie — 2012-04-09T17:15:17

Hello,

This is a very minor issue, just thought I would point it out.  The mail
servers listed in the MX record for toolserver.org don't accept inbound
connections from the IPv6 Internet, only IPv4:

Apr  9 13:11:38 www postfix/smtp[28632]: connect to
clematis.toolserver.org[2620:0:862:101::2:1]:25: Connection refused
Apr  9 13:11:38 www postfix/smtp[28632]: connect to
hawthorn.toolserver.org[2620:0:862:101::2:5]:25: Connection refused
Apr  9 13:11:46 www postfix/smtp[28632]: 5F0FA801DF:
to=<unblock< at >toolserver.org>,
relay=clematis.toolserver.org[91.198.174.195]:25, delay=17,
delays=0.39/0.09/11/6.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as
EF68E453B)

This obviously is not a huge problem, as MTAs will fall back on the IPv4
records.  I just thought I would point it out in case this was unknown.

use of include_once in PHP changed

Ja Ga — 2012-04-05T04:59:40

Now that Toolserver is coming back from the dead, none of my PHP reports are displaying content.  See, for instance, http://toolserver.org/~jason/disambig_links.php.  

The content cuts out whenever the report uses an include_once statement, as the following:

    include_once("../sql/status/dab_last_good_run.php");

Now, this report hasn't changed in ages, so does anyone know why these reports now fail to render content when they reach an include_once?

Thanks,
Jason

UnicodeEncodeError

Alchimista — 2012-04-03T22:52:44

Hi,
I'm having an UnicodeEncodeError, something like: "UnicodeEncodeError:
'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 28-29: ordinal not in
range(128)" on print or wikipedia.output() statments when running scripts
submitted on submit< at > with qcronsub. Some time ago I've asked for help on
irc, and was told that was an undocumented error, and pointed a solution,
because has far as i remember, my LC_ALL wasn't defined. I now have set upt
qcronsub to run the following sh script:

#! /bin/sh

LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" /usr/bin/python /home/alchimista/aleph/avbot.py
-botnick:'Aleph Bot'  -ownernick:Alchimista -newbie:100 > /dev/null

It worked for some weeks, but now is back again. How can i fix it?

Is there an alternative to the tool server ranarticle assessments?

Danny B. — 2012-04-02T15:23:03

Forwarding mail from Sarah posted in another maillist.

Danny B.

--- CUT HERE ---

Hi everyone,

A key part of my residency work as a Wikipedian in Residence is article assessment related metrics for my GLAMs. I know that toolserver is having problems, and the problems seem to go in and out. I have been in the process of gathering metrics for the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and article assessments aren't "working" (for lack of a better word) at all. For example, my template has been stuck at 85 articles for weeks[1], and trust me, it is beyond that now.

Are there any other options similar to this? I also use a hidden category, too, but, this chart gives a nice vision of what the status is of articles and how the quality can be shifted over time. Or even insight (in layman's terms) on when one thinks that this tool will be working again?

I'm to a point where toolserver is nothing but a source of frustration for me (and I know I'm not the only one!). I have virtually no clue what is going on with it (

Where is my cron file?

emijrp — 2012-04-01T10:17:36

Hi;

My cron file has vanished. crontab -l shows nothing, where is it? I'm
connected to willow, is this related to the recent server issues?

Regards,
emijrp