User:Juho Kunsola/log/2022

TODO

• Harvest Protecting President Zelenskyy against deep fakes a 2022 preprint at arxiv.org by Matyáš Boháček of Johannes Kepler Gymnasium and w:Hany Farid for the essential and interesting previous work in it. I saw enough to know that these guys are liquid gold in the science-hottness meter.
• Renaming and rescoping Help against appearance and voice theft. Hopefully a brother in Jesus will come over and help me out in the near future with this and various other questions
• wikidata:Wikidata:WikiProject Human rights/organization/human rights organizations is a great place to spot human rights organizations. The list is updated by a bot from Wikidata.

INCOMING

• commons:Commons:Timed Text
• Scrape w:Tron:_Legacy#Sound_and_visual_effects for more information on Disney's technology
• w:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax

IN PROGRESS

• WP Wiki Tooltip Wordpress plugin by Nico Danneberg that provides tooltips from wiki into Wordpress was installed. It seems to work fine and it possibility to fetch tooltips from multiple wikis. Need to redo the links the Wordpress https://stop-synthetic-filth.org/wp/ with WP Wiki Tooltip. They need a lot of fixing after the recent changes to article names and new articles.

EVALUATING

• Considering mw:Extension:Cargo and mw:Extension:Page Forms for structured data in-wiki in SSFWIKI. Other alternative would be mw:Wikibase. Yaron Koren, who wrote Cargo, also wrote 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.

• For Wordpress moving away from Polylang to automatic translation with GTranslate. Whether GTranslate would play along nicely with WP Wiki Tooltip and RDP Wiki Embed remains to be discovered. Maybe set up a staging Wordpress just to test this out. There is an another Wordpress translator plugin called 'Google Language Translator' with very high reviews, but it has been purchased by the company behind Gtranslate, and remains to see if the plan to phase out that.

DONE

• RDP Wiki Embed Wordpress plugin by Robert D Payne at wordpress.org allows embedding (with reformatting possible) of mw:MediaWiki articles into Wordpress. See e.g. https://stop-synthetic-filth.org/wp/2021/12/a-disarming-weapon-against-synthetic-filth-by-facepinpoint-com-existed-from-2017-to-2021/ for how it works.

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December

Friday 2022-12-30

Made and verified backups

Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.39.1 seems to have gone well

Upgrade deemed complete.

Monday 2022-12-26

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.

Saturday 2022-12-03

Upgrade to the new MediaWiki 1.39 LTS done, making backups

Upgrade to the new LTS 1.39 seems to have been successful. Going to make backups and take a snapshot now. View mw:Release notes/1.39 for information on what is new.

Friday 2022-12-02

Made and verified backups and took a snapshot in prepartion for upgrading to the new LTS

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

November

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. Juho Kunsola (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. Juho Kunsola (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. Juho Kunsola (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 a thumbnailing problem on one wiki

• I will look into how long that setting was like that and was there any rational reason for it. I noticed it on ciumd:User:Jukeboksi/Log/2022#Saturday 2022-05-28

Saturday 2022-05-28

Made, verified and stashed backups

Done. Going to make a snapshot of the system disk as well. Today I spotted that there is something wrong with the thumbnailing on the Consumerium.org development wiki and I hope to get it resolved soon.

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

Tuesday 2022-05-24

Renamed "Laws against synthetic filth" to Laws against synthesis and other related crimes

• Moved Laws against synthetic filth to Laws against synthesis and other related crimes. Needed to recover from db backup a few times to do it and had some technical difficulties the 2nd time around. Lesson turned out to be an old well known one: Always restart any caching system, such as the mw:Memcached that makes MediaWiki fly, instead of just running, if doing any changes that the software does not anticipate.

Made and verified a database backup

• After the article rename

Friday 2022-05-20

Made and verified a backup of only the database

Going to move Laws against synthetic filth, so made and verified backup of just the database, as these renames with Special:ReplaceText may sometimes have adverse effects and thus need to revert to old state.

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.

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.

January

Wednesday 2022-01-26

Made, verified and stashed backups and took an interim snapshot

Done.

Tuesday 2021-01-18

Made, verified and stashed backups and took an interim snapshot

Done.

Saturday 2022-01-08

Progress in SSFWIKI

Recently added new articles to the SSFWIKI:

1. ssfwiki:FacePinPoint.com
2. ssfwiki:Organizations and events against synthetic human-like fakes (split from ssfwiki:Synthetic human-like fakes) and
3. ssfwiki:Help against appearance and voice theft (just a stub).

Also content and explanatory additions, structural improvements and other improvements to other articles have been made, like

1. Renaming the biblical stuff article to ssfwiki:Biblical connection - Revelation 13 and Daniel 7 which is truer to its scope and
2. Renaming the legal stuff article to ssfwiki:Laws against synthesis and other related crimes.

Considering mw:Extension:ShortDescription

Considering mw:Extension:ShortDescription for better user experience for mobile visitors and it has some other advantages too and looks very straightforward to take into use.

Considering mw:Extension:AutoSitemap for w:Site map solution

Considering mw:Extension:AutoSitemap, an extension to automatically keep the w:site map up-to-date and to inform the usual search engines periodically if it has changed. This would probably help search engines pick up new changes faster.

Friday 2022-01-07

Possibility to improve the popups by adding a gadget

After searching a while I found out that the mw:Extension:Popups implements w:Page Previews (SSFWIKI has this now), but the gadget that implements w:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups is a different thing. Got some expert help in irc as Reedy said that

[perjantaina 7. tammikuuta 2022] [19.46.20 EET] <Reedy> Both the extension and the gadget should be doable

so I'm going to look into pursuing a similar popup system as Wikipedia has. There are some advantages with w:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups e.g. renders more prettily, popups contain clickable links, popups contain quick access links to wiki editing functionality.

Thursday 2022-01-06

Made and verified backups of just the database

Done.

Wednesday 2022-01-05

New article Help against appearance and voice theft

Help against appearance and voice theft was split from a stub portion of How to protect yourself and others from covert modeling.

Monday 2022-01-03

Addition of new articles Organizations and events against synthetic human-like fakes (split from synthetic human-like fakes and new article

Renamed an article "Laws against synthesis and other related crimes"

Moved [[Current and possible laws and their application]] to Laws against synthesis and other related crimes.

Made and verified backups

• Done.

Sunday 2022-01-02

Addition of new article Organizations and events against synthetic human-like fakes

Addition of new article Organizations and events against synthetic human-like fakes, content split from synthetic human-like fakes.

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Wiki log for 2021