[Cloud] Re: What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread Valerio Bozzolan via Cloud
Nice thread. Wikimedia Switzerland is another happy user of Wikimedia dumps on a project called Cassandra, designed by Synapta s.r.l. in 2017. The Cassandra web tool shows things like user contributions on the Swiss national gallery and historical page views and other "uh! :O" things about Swiss GL

[Cloud] Re: What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread Kosta Harlan
Without wanting to take away from this thread--folks who respond here, could you please also have a look at T365693: MediaWiki Dumps XML - Provide attribute to indicate that user is temporary account in exported content and add your feedback? (Or just re

[Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Re: [Toolforge maintenance 2024-10-08] Tomorrow at 12:00 UTC toolforge upgrade

2024-10-08 Thread David Caro
And maintenance finished :) There's an increase in the response time for the builds service (`toolforge build`), that I'm investigating (see [1]), but everything is functional. If you see any issues, please open a task/contact us [2]. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376710 [2] https://w

[Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Re: [Toolforge maintenance 2024-10-08] Tomorrow at 12:00 UTC toolforge upgrade

2024-10-08 Thread David Caro
Starting the maintenance now. On 10/07 15:08, David Caro wrote: > > Hi! > > We will be upgrading toolforge build service tomorrow October 8th at 12:00 > UTC. > > There's no downtime expected, but the process this time is a bit flaky, and if > something goes wrong, it might make any new builds

[Cloud] What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread Bryan Davis
I was asked recently what I knew about the types of tools that use data from the https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ project. I had to admit that I really didn't know of many tools off the top of my head that relied on dumps. Most of the use cases I have heard about are for research topics like looking at

[Cloud] Re: What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread Kimmo Virtanen
I am from time to time using dumps for parsing data that I cannot get via SQL/API. For example in summer I fetched Wikimedia Commons page history for getting the list of old categories of images so that I would not be re-inserting categories by bot which were least once removed from the photo. Br

[Cloud] Re: What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread Jérémie Roquet
Hi Bryan, Le mar. 8 oct. 2024 à 17:59, Bryan Davis a écrit : > Do you run a tool that needs data from Dumps to do its job? I would > love to hear some stories about how this data helps folks advance the > work of the movement. Socksfinder¹ uses stub-meta-history to build an index of edits used t

[Cloud] Re: What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread Amir Sarabadani
Oh I don't know where to even start: AI/ML done by me: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/masz this uses dumps to help checkusers of 11 wikis do their work more efficiently. - Tool that finds "bad words" of each wiki automatically using the history of edits dumps which la

[Cloud] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Forthcoming maintenance to irc.wikimedia.org - Moving to ircstream

2024-10-08 Thread Bryan Davis
Forwarding from wikitech-l for visibility. TL;DR - irc.wikimedia.org is getting a new backend software stack on 2024-10-10. No client facing changes are expected. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376014 for technical details and to report issues. -- Forwarded message - From:

[Cloud] Re: What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread YiFei Zhu
On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:59 AM Bryan Davis wrote: > > I was asked recently what I knew about the types of tools that use > data from the https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ project. I had to admit > that I really didn't know of many tools off the top of my head that > relied on dumps. Most of the use cas

[Cloud] Re: What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread Bruce Myers
Monthly dumps are used for the following: 1) Checkwiki - helps clean up syntax and other errors in the source code for several languages and wiki types - pages-articles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia 2) TemplateParameters - displays template parameter usage

[Cloud] Re: What do y'all use Dumps for?

2024-10-08 Thread Sascha Brawer via Cloud
QRank uses dumps (plus access logs) to compute a ranking signal for Wikidata items. — Sascha Am Di., 8. Okt. 2024 um 18:57 Uhr schrieb YiFei Zhu : > On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:59 AM Bryan Davis wrote: > > > > I was asked recently what I knew about the types of tools t

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] Re: [Toolforge maintenance 2024-10-08] Tomorrow at 12:00 UTC toolforge upgrade

2024-10-08 Thread Volkan Ural
thankyou WiCloudX 8 Eki 2024 Sal, saat 15:04 tarihinde David Caro şunu yazdı: > > Starting the maintenance now. > > On 10/07 15:08, David Caro wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > We will be upgrading toolforge build service tomorrow October 8th at > 12:00 UTC. > > > > There's no downtime expected, but