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- May 31 2014, 9:14 PM (460 w, 1 d)
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- Lcawte [ Global Accounts ]
Fri, Mar 24
Closing in place of your support ticket. tl;dr - it isn't a bug. It's a cookie or session getting stuck in your browser.
Tue, Mar 21
Removed as part of the 1.35 upgrade.
Fri, Mar 10
Sun, Mar 5
Tue, Feb 28
I expect it's the frontend cache and/or SSL terminator incorrectly handling the forwarded headers. We were still very much testing that and the mobile detection in the frontend at this time. Haven't seen a reoccurrence recently, closing until it needs reopening?
Jan 31 2023
Thanks for the admin work. Really helpful.
Dec 26 2022
Sorry - we're not importing wikis at present (and Phabricator wouldn't be the place to request this)
Dec 7 2022
Oct 16 2022
Closing this as a WONTFIX as this task seems to be more aimed at skipping 1.35.
Jul 22 2021
So this cropped up a couple more times - primarily around monthly archiving before the cleanup. Ran into it again as dailies finally started being big enough to push us over that edge.
Jul 1 2021
Apr 22 2021
Apr 7 2021
A monthly cron is now run on the second day of every month to delete monthly backups older than a specified amount, currently set to 120 days. This regained approximately 180 GB of disk space on the manual run. This is currently called "monthlyBackupCleanup" pending commit to the repository and rework as a ... more robust script.
Jan 26 2021
Dec 8 2020
Update: Root cause is tracked down, we think it's fixed (confirmation of that at a later point, currently isolated so it won't do any harm until then) and we've liberated as much data as we can from the void.
Oct 21 2020
Oct 20 2020
Merged these in because they're all the same underlying cause which is some sort of botched revision (MediaWiki internals "recently" had a huge overhaul) which is causing it to freak itself out a little. We highly suspect the culprit is CreateWiki, however, at this time a cause and fix is proving difficult to pin down.
Oct 9 2020
Aug 9 2020
Aug 3 2020
So, for further information, I've hacked the automysqlbackup script to use pigz (it is enabled in the more recent version which seems to be buggy and also isn't provided by package - making life... more interesting)
Aug 2 2020
Jul 17 2020
Jul 14 2020
Jul 13 2020
You need to send an email to support@shoutwiki.com with your wiki subdomain.
Jul 10 2020
Completely forgot "normal users" don't just bypass the throttle check. My bad.
Jul 6 2020
Jun 28 2020
Is this a side effect of the resolution to the following task: New wikis not created properly?
Jun 25 2020
I believe this should be fixed?
Jun 14 2020
Jun 12 2020
Jun 11 2020
Jack cleaned up the affected wikis, and I've turned off CreateWiki (ish) for the time being. New wikis before we get back to 1.34 are going to cause more issues than its worth.
Jun 1 2020
May 26 2020
So we now run a find command which pipes to xargs to delete directories under /path/to/settings/deleted that haven't been modified in 30 days. This gives us enough time to hopefully notice we've deleted the wrong wiki or for someone to appeal a deletion (not that we have a formal appeals process) while not hoarding deleted wikis forever.
So this turned out to be surprisingly difficult to actually fix. For some reason, the server keeps throwing me either old or 503ing CSS...
No longer deployed in favour of SemanticBundle.
No longer deployed in favour of SemanticBundle.
@jack Did this ever get fixed?
Could not reproduce, no indication of continued issue
Chirp upgraded, Vertex decommissioned
Vertex decommissioned and replaced by Utter.
May 19 2020
Current blocker/extensive consideration required: T273
May 4 2020
May 3 2020
As this is bundled with MediaWiki by default now, I don't see any huge issue with enabling it globally - we'll probably roll this with MediaWiki 1.34
Apr 25 2020
It is entirely intentional. Language subdomains are a blocker for our HTTPS rollout, so we're actively removing the ability to create new ones and are in the process of clearing up as many of them as we can. When we get a better idea of how many we need to keep, further details will be provided to existing wikis.
Jan 19 2020
Jan 13 2020
The extension is unmaintained upstream, and we'll be dropping it as soon as it causes a security issue or no longer works.
Jan 6 2020
Dec 30 2019
Dec 26 2019
Fixed this hours before I saw this ticket...