User talk:Southparkfan

Congratulations
Your RfA was successful, and you have been promoted. Use the tools wisely ;) D u s t i *Let's talk!* 15:25, 30 July 2014 (BST)
 * I'll do. Thanks for (re-)closing it (perhaps the idea of closing it myself was a bit silly indeed :P)! Southparkfan (talk) 15:26, 30 July 2014 (BST)

Orain Site Update #1
This can be called the official first monthly site update hence the #1 so; let's get on to what has happened during the month of July!

During July, Orain added two new servers to the cluster, there were two incidents and one long term fix.
 * Technical
 * prod5 was added as an additional webserver which we plan to use to help distribute the load of web requests and as a fail-over so if prod4 fails, we can continue to provide you all with your wikis.
 * prod6 was added and is still in the setting up stage. It is planned to take over the role of prod1, a server we are planning to decommission eventually.
 * We had a small security issue regarding ElasticSearch on our prod3 server. No unauthorized access to the data stored on the server was seen and the server has since been made more secure. As a security precaution, ElasticSearch was removed from the cluster and wikis were defaulted back to MediaWiki search.
 * From July 30th to August 1st; there were issues with out going MediaWiki mail. This has since been resolved however incoming mail to all @orain.org addresses are still not functioning as of August 3rd.
 * A long-term issue with images was resolved on July 15th.


 * New Features
 * A wikicreator group was added to metawiki so community users can handle new wiki requests which is one step into delegating new roles and responsibilities to the community. Wikicreators are chosen by system administrators using their discretion.
 * Cyberpower678's tool was given access to some database tables on public wikis. As a result the UserAnalysis tool works on all public Orain wikis.
 * UrlShortener was enabled on all Orain wikis to allow shorter URLs to be used. Currently URLs follow the form of 'https://$database.orain.org/o/$id'. If wikis want to use a shorten URL of their choice; please make a request to the system administrators.
 * Private wikis may now (on request) use image authorization for their wikis. This means images are made web-inaccessible as to preserve the security of images uploads while still being accessed by users with 'read' access to your wiki.
 * Orain now allows the use of OAuth. Please see the OAuth page on MediaWiki for more details. OAuth requests can be made on any wiki and will be approved by a system administrator on metawiki.

On behalf of the Orain staff, John 17:35, 3 August 2014 (BST)

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File Uploads
How do you upload files on Orain, I'm really having trouble building my wiki without pictures.
 * File uploads ✅. Southparkfan (talk) 10:06, 4 August 2014 (BST)

Francais
Pouvez vous configurer le logiciel média wiki en francais pour: wvirus.orain.org  ? Merci SaveurSud (talk) 23:32, 12 August 2014 (BST)
 * ✅ Dans l'avenir, si vous avez une demande comme ça, svp faire votre demande ici J'espère que cela a un sens, j'ai utilisé Google Translate D u s t i *Let's talk!* 01:58, 13 August 2014 (BST)

Orain Site Update #2
This is an update of all technical changes and issues during the month of August.


 * Technical Changes
 * prod1 was removed from active maintenance on August 6th and removed from the cluster a week later.
 * Orain migrated from RamNode to DigitalOcean. The work began on August 17th
 * We moved away from Memcached to Redis for session and general caching on all Orain servers.
 * We added prod7 to the cluster during the migration. It is responsible for Redis and static content hosting.


 * Technical Issues
 * The job queue did not run any job for 4 days as a result of permissions errors with Redis. We have rolled back to using the database for this for now.
 * All wikis experienced database issues shortly after the migration as a result of MariaDB cache taking up excessive disk space. To fix this in the long term, prod5 was recycled as a new database server.
 * For an hour on the 25th of August, users occasionally got caching errors and log in issues as a result of Redis taking up excessive disk space.

On behalf of Orain staff, John (talk) 22:02, 6 September 2014 (BST)

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Request features preload
Would you be able to include a section in the preload template that includes a request for a link to the extension from MediaWiki? It'll make it easier for the sysadmins. D u s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 19:16, 20 September 2014 (BST)
 * If you can post an example template layout (like ), I can try. Southparkfan (talk) 19:17, 20 September 2014 (BST)
 * Right now it looks like:
 * wiki
 * That doesn't seem too user friendly. What about something like:
 * WikiID     = Replace this with the name of your wiki
 * subdomain  = Replace this with the subdomain of your wiki
 * Extension name       = Replace this with name of the extension you want
 * Link = Replace this with a link to the extension you want (i.e. the MediaWiki URL description)
 * description = What does this extension do and why do you want it?
 * What do you think? <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 19:24, 20 September 2014 (BST)
 * We should create multiple extension parameters + a separate section for non-extension requests. Southparkfan (talk) 19:25, 20 September 2014 (BST)
 * I'll take a look at this tomorrow. Southparkfan (talk) 21:23, 29 September 2014 (BST)
 * is it good now? :-) Southparkfan (talk) 14:32, 13 October 2014 (BST)

Your permissions request
I just wanted to let you know that I have closed your global permissions request as successful. Congratulations. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 21:18, 29 September 2014 (BST)
 * Thank you! Southparkfan (talk) 21:23, 29 September 2014 (BST)

Deletion of Juppelwiki
Hi Southparkfan, as requested, a little confirmation that juppelwiki can be deleted. JurgenNL (talk) 17:24, 13 October 2014 (BST)
 * ✅ - Southparkfan (talk) 17:28, 13 October 2014 (BST)

WRT my other wiki request
Hi Southparkfan, wrt the other wiki request, it was a mistake on my part. I had misunderstood how to fill out the form proposing a new wiki; the earlier one can be deleted. Many thanks, however, for the quick creation of the actual wiki! It will be of great use to myself and others.

Question
Hi Southparkfan, sorry for bothering you, but I have a question. How can I import files on http://isv.orain.org/? I remember I've performed such actions in the past, but here I can't seem to find it. Thanks in advance for your guidance! Best regards, IJzeren Jan (talk) 01:48, 26 October 2014 (GMT)
 * Hi. File uploading is enabled on your wiki, so that should work. If it are many images, we can install an extension like http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiUpload, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload if you want. Alternatively, you can try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scripts/ImageFileMigrator or http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_upload_service/Script. I can't guarantee the last two script will work, but you are free to choose any of the extensions or other methods here. Let me know what seems the best for you. Southparkfan (talk) 09:47, 26 October 2014 (GMT)
 * Hi Southparkfan, no, that's actually no what I mean. I've seen that Orain also links to Commons, to uploading pictures etc. is not something that has to be done frequently. What I mean is importing the content of other wikis in .XLS format. Any idea how to do that? Cheers, IJzeren Jan (talk) 12:54, 26 October 2014 (GMT)
 * Ah, you mean files with the content of articles? Yeah, sorry, I thought you meant images with files. Assuming you want to import content from an other MediaWiki installation, you first should get a dump with the XML format (can be made with Special:Export on that wiki. Also, XLS? That sounds Microsoft Excel format, which is not compatible with MediaWiki and would require conversion.). If the dump XML file isn't too big (< 3 MB/60 revisions), you can request access for "Special:Import" on isvwiki. If the XML file is bigger than that, it will require a sysadmin to import the dump. In that case, you should upload the file somewhere (e.g. http://www.filedropper.com/ or https://wetransfer.com), and give us the link, and then we'll import it soon. Southparkfan (talk) 13:09, 26 October 2014 (GMT)
 * In that case I'd like to request access to Special:Import indeed. I have several .xml (I mistakenly wrote .xsl) files and only one of them is big (ca. 10 MB), so I could already get started with the rest. When it comes to importing the big one, I'll get back to you. :) Cheers, IJzeren Jan (talk) 18:44, 26 October 2014 (GMT)
 * I have granted you importer rights for a week. If any uploads hit the limit - please poke me and I will do a server-side upload. Thanks, John (talk) 18:48, 26 October 2014 (GMT)
 * Wow, that was quick! Thank you very much!! IJzeren Jan (talk) 18:50, 26 October 2014 (GMT)

Hi Southparkfan, it's me again. I've succeeded in most of the things I wanted to do. There's one big file with about a hundred of articles in it (one big article with a lot of revisions), which is about 10 MB. I've followed your advice and used https://wetransfer.com - here's the link. I'd be much obliged if you would be so kind to upload this one to isv.orain.org. Thanks in advance! Cheers, IJzeren Jan (talk) 22:29, 27 October 2014 (GMT)