User:Jukeboksi/Log/2022

EVALUATING

Cargo and Page Forms Considering mw:Extension:Cargo and mw:Extension:Page Forms for structured data in-wiki for SSFWIKI. Other alternative would be mw:Wikibase.

The case of SSFWIKI is much simpler whereas Consumerium's case is very complicated to start with because of the vast interoperability demands for the knowledge graphs. In SSFWIKI I would use Cargo mostly for storing metadata about outgoing links and generate user friendly lists from those.

Yaron Koren wrote Cargo and he has also written the 'Working with MediaWiki book at workingwithmediawiki.com. In the book the relevant parts are found in Chapter 16 - Cargo and Semantic MediaWiki and Chapter 17 - Page Forms.

The experience from setting up a simpler case would help me learn how it would be possible to solve the things that Consumerium needs to function.

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December

Friday 2022-12-30

Made and verified backups

Monday 2022-12-26

Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.35.9 seems to have gone well

Upgrade deemed complete.

Made backups and a snaphshot in preparation for upgrade to newest minor point version

Done, commencing upgrades with the wiki dedicated just to testing stuff.

Tuesday 2022-12-06

Recovered from a backup from Saturday 2022-12-03T10:52:36.413442+00:00 and popping some things in manually from backups. No data was lost.

Made a snapshot and made backups, verified and distributed the backups.

Saturday 2022-12-04

Attempted upgrade of this wikifamily of two, but the test wiki would not upgrade to the newest LTS, 1.39, so I needed to rollback the process, but it didn't go very well and the MediaWiki was left in internally inconsistent state and closed for editing.

Friday 2022-12-02

The new LTS (1.39) came out two nights ago. Making backups and taking a snapshot in preparation for upgrades.

November

Wednesday 2022-11-16

Made and verified backups

Made and verified backups

Monday 2022-11-14

Made and verified backups

Made and verified backups.

Saturday 2022-11-05

Made and verified backups

Made and verified backups and took an interim snapshot

October

Sunday 2022-10-23

Upgraded the wiki

Upgraded the wiki to 1.35.8, made and verified backups and took a snapshot of the system disk. The next LTS, 1.39 should be arriving in November 2022 and looking forward to upgrade to that when it becomes available. Jukeboksi (talk) 22:35, 23 October 2022 (CEST)

Saturday 2022-10-22

Made and verified backups and took a snapshot of the system disk.

September

Friday 2022-09-30

Made and verified backups. Taking a snapshot next in preparation of upgrading this MediaWiki to the newest LTS maintenance release and commencing upgrading with the lower importance wikis.

Monday 2022-09-19

Made and verified backups and took some snapshots. This was due anyways and upgrading a diaspora* pod to 0.7.18.1 next, though this is not necessary as the fixed bug does not affect the diaspora* pod I keep since 2013.

August

Wednesday 2022-08-24

• Made and verified backups.

Tuesday 2022-08-02

• Made and verified backups and took a snapshot of the system disks. This coincided with upgrading the diaspora* free social media pod https://d.consumium.org to version 0.7.18.0

July

Wednesday 2022-07-20

Made and verified backups

• All done. Jukeboksi (talk) 21:57, 20 July 2022 (CEST)

Saturday 2022-07-02

Upgrading MediaWiki done

• Took a snapshot of the system disks, upgraded all the 8 MediaWikis to the latest version in the 1.35 LTS-branch. Made, stashed and verified backups afterwards and going to take a snapshot of the systems now. Jukeboksi (talk) 15:45, 2 July 2022 (CEST)

Friday 2022-07-01

Made and verified backups

• Backups and verification done on Friday 2022-07-01

June

Tuesday 2022-06-14

Made and verified backups and took an interim snapshot

• All done

May

Monday 2022-05-30

Making and verifying backups after resolving the thumbnailing problem on Consumerium.org developement wiki

• I will look into how long that setting was like that and was there any rational reason for it

Saturday 2022-05-28

Some problem with image thumbnailing noticed

Last night I uploaded some images and noticed that the thumbnailing system is not working as it should. Looking at Special:ListFiles I notice that if the images are small enough, they do not meet the thumnailing criteria (maybe). This is probably some software component failing silently i.e. without throwing an error message. I have reached out for help in irc. The other wikis are working fine, but they are on a completely different server.

Making, verifying and stashing backups and taking a snapshot

Going to make backups and also take a snapshot, while waiting for some help or some realization of what is wrong, how did it go wrong and how to fix it.

Done. Going to make a snapshot of the system disk as well. Jukeboksi (talk) 17:02, 28 May 2022 (CEST)

Solved the lack of thumbnail generation

Solution was to set $wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse = true; # default is false # [1]

Wednesday 2022-05-25

Made and verified backups

• Done, also taking a snapshot

Tuesday 2022-05-24

Made and verified backups

• Done, also taking a snapshot

Saturday 2022-05-14

Made and verified backups

Done.

Friday 2022-05-06

Made and verified backups

Done.

April

Wednesday 2022-04-27

Made and verified backups

Additionally took an interim snapshot of the system disk. diaspora* was upgraded to 0.7.17.0

Friday 2022-04-08

Made and verified backups

Done. I'm thinking of improving the backupping system in a few ways.

Friday 2022-04-01

Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.35.6

• Upgrade complete. No downtime. Going to snapshot the system disk and make new backups.

Made and verified backups in preparation for upgrade

Made and verified backups in preparation for upgrade of the MediaWikis. Going to snapshot the system disk now and then move on to upgrading the wikis. Negligible downtime of services expected.

March

Tuesday 2022-03-08

Made, verified and stashed backups and took an interim snapshot

Done.

February

Monday 2022-02-21

Made and verified backups and took a snapshot

Done.

Sunday 2022-02-13

Made and verified backups and took a snapshot

• Preparing to upgrade the diaspora* pod to 0.7.16.0 very shortly. Made backups of all servers to coincide.

Wednesday 2022-02-02

• Started considering mw:Extension:Cargo and mw:Extension:Page Forms. Initially for the simpler case of SSFWIKI, but maybe it could eventually even power Consumerium.

January

Wednesday 2022-01-26

Made, verified and stashed backups and took an interim snapshot

Done.

Tuesday 2022-01-18

Made, verified and stashed backups and took an interim snapshot

Done.

Sunday 2022-01-09

Recovered from backup

No edits were lost. I was trying a text replace and it didn't go well.

Saturday 2022-01-08

Made, verified and stashed backups

Done.

Monday 2022-01-03

Made and verified backups

• Done.

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Wiki log for 2021