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This noticeboard is a location to discuss and coordinate administrative tasks for the Battlestar Wiki.
It is our hope that this place can serve as a location for administrators to coordinate their efforts on the maintenance tasks of the Wiki (it's not ALL fun and games), as well as a spot for our contributors to be able to bring things to the attention of the admins if something needs to be done. Need a protected page edited? An article or picture deleted? Admins will watchlist this page so that your request won't get lost in the shuffle.
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Memcached, APC, and performance optimization in general
We discussed this a while ago, and it was more or less concluded that we should try APC. I also mentioned memcached, which caches various stuff, and is also required for the SpamRegex and RegexBlock extensions, rate limiting and account creation throttling. What's the current status on this? Has anyone tried either of these yet? --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 09:13, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- APC can't be used with our current configuration, since we only use one instance of MW and it somehow fraks it up. We haven't tried memcached, though. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 10:49, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- Ok, that was easy... I loaded memcached and configured it. Right now, it only runs locally, with 2GB for virtual memory. Now, my dumb question of the centon is this... is there any way to track the health of memcached, either via MW or another software? I tried finding a piece of software that would integrate into Webmin, or web server management software, but all I found was a four-year-old extension which I'm very leery of trying, simply due to the age and the fact that it's not mentioned on Webmin's site. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 11:45, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- I don't really know, I'll ask on IRC. Watch out though that you firewall memcached properly: don't allow the outside world to connect to memcached's port, or they'll have unlimited read+write access to the cache, which is a huge security leak. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 13:00, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- The port is already blocked from the outside world. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 13:07, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- Good. I haven't gotten much response on your question at IRC, maybe you should ask on wikitech-l. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 13:31, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- Will do. Thanks again, Catrope. :) -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 13:35, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- Good. I haven't gotten much response on your question at IRC, maybe you should ask on wikitech-l. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 13:31, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- The port is already blocked from the outside world. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 13:07, 1 February 2008 (CST)
- I don't really know, I'll ask on IRC. Watch out though that you firewall memcached properly: don't allow the outside world to connect to memcached's port, or they'll have unlimited read+write access to the cache, which is a huge security leak. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 13:00, 1 February 2008 (CST)
Sheppard in the Miniseries
I received an e-mail from Kevin Grazier today, noting a few corrections and observations on the Wiki. One of those corrections was regarding Sheppard, particularly noting that he appears (somewhere) in the Miniseries. So if any of you guys get the chance and want to watch the Miniseries again, could you please be on the lookout for any references to Shep? Thanks! -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 14:31, 5 February 2008 (CST)
- Interesting. He might be one of the background pilots or mentioned somewhere in the wireless chatter. That will be hard to pinpoint though. -- Serenity 14:58, 5 February 2008 (CST)
- Hmm, somehow that seems familiar but I can't place how I know that. What else did he say?-- OrionFour 16:22, 5 February 2008 (CST)
- He noted that the name "Stepchild" in Kara's speech was written as "Steptoe" in the script. Other than that, he mentioned to me that he was writing up an article for his tech blog and was using the Wiki to do some research, which is what prompted him to send me corrections and his few notes in the first place. :) -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 16:31, 5 February 2008 (CST)
- Coolness. He's noted a few technical errors in some articles that I've yet to correct...gotta get to his tech blog for the specifics. <geekmode> Glee!!! </geekmode> --Spencerian 15:03, 6 February 2008 (CST)
- He noted that the name "Stepchild" in Kara's speech was written as "Steptoe" in the script. Other than that, he mentioned to me that he was writing up an article for his tech blog and was using the Wiki to do some research, which is what prompted him to send me corrections and his few notes in the first place. :) -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 16:31, 5 February 2008 (CST)
Thanks to the SPACE network
I just wanted to give thanks to the SPACE network for providing me with a list of all of their airdates for the entire series!-- OrionFour 01:29, 8 February 2008 (CST)
User:Zini and User:Zinistuff
How do we handle this? --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 08:51, 11 February 2008 (CST)
- We've seen this before. It's a low-level item that Joe should be able to intercept. The user has been contacted to choose an account, but there was the matter of ensuring that users couldn't make such accounts. Joe should know. --Spencerian 17:00, 11 February 2008 (CST)
- I thought we disabled this option... guess we have to re-take a look at the LocalSettings.php file :P Shane (T - C - E) 00:36, 12 February 2008 (CST)
- Fact is, you can't disable this through the regular $wgGroupPermissions interface: everyone, even logged-in users, are in the implicit
*group and will therefore be able to create accounts (because$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = true;). There is this, which requires memcached (which is probably why we didn't use it before; Joe's set up memcached about a week ago). I couldn't find anything in the MediaWiki docs directly disabling account creation by registered users; it should be noted, though, that it would be easy to circumvent such a restriction by simply logging out. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 08:39, 12 February 2008 (CST)
- Fact is, you can't disable this through the regular $wgGroupPermissions interface: everyone, even logged-in users, are in the implicit
- I thought we disabled this option... guess we have to re-take a look at the LocalSettings.php file :P Shane (T - C - E) 00:36, 12 February 2008 (CST)