User:Juho Kunsola/log/2021

TODO

Explore WP Wiki Tooltip Wordpress plugin by Nico Danneberg that provides tooltips from wiki into Wordpress and RDP Wiki Embed Wordpress plugin by Robert D Payne that allows embedding (reformatting possible) mw:MediaWiki articles into Wordpress.

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

July

Wednesday 2021-07-21

Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.35.3

Reverted MediaWiki to last Friday's state, upgraded the MediaWiki from 1.35.2 to 1.35.3 and performed backups and snapshotting. MediaWiki 1.35 is LTS, so going to stay on that. Going to recreate the few edits manually from a temporary wiki I have that contains the edits lost in the revert. Juho Kunsola (talk) 23:33, 21 July 2021 (CEST)

Saturday 2021-07-17

Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.36.1 - rolled back

~~Upgraded the wiki MediaWiki briefly to 1.36.1.~~ This was rolled back to a backup from 2021-07-16

After the upgrade the system started throwing 5 deprecation notices about the mw:Extension:EmbedVideo's way of doing things.

The good folks at MediaWiki development did some restriction(s) on parser functions (See mw:Release_notes/1.36 for more info). EmbedVideo implements a parser function.

Searching for a solution to the problem it appears that YouTubes and Vimeos can be embedded via the mw:Extension:Widgets and installing and enabling the widgets mw:Extension:Widgets#Video/Audio_widgets. As a long term solution this would appear better, because EmbedVideo has previously been interfering with mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler, apparently due that they both take [[File:Filename.ext]]-syntax The TimedMediaHandler would have some good uses here in #SSF! wiki. There are some pieces in the Mediatheque that would benefit from timed text pointing out where it looks human and where it looks like a fake, which TimedMediaHandler implements.

As a temporary solution to suppress the deprecation messages I found "$wgDeprecationReleaseLimit = '1.x'; [to suppress all deprecation warnings added in version > '1.x']" as a solution in MediaWiki topic Is there a way to suppress Deprecated messages using PHPunit? Juho Kunsola (talk)

The iFrame Widgets that are used to transclude websites are broken at the moment Juho Kunsola (talk) 06:11, 17 July 2021 (CEST)

Friday 2021-07-16

Making and verifying backups and taking a snapshot of the system disk in preparation to upgrade to MediaWiki version 1.36.1 Juho Kunsola (talk) 22:38, 16 July 2021 (CEST)

Wednesday 2021-07-07

Took a snapshot of the system disk in preparation for some maintenance work. Did the work, made and verified backups and another snapshot. Juho Kunsola (talk) 20:26, 7 July 2021 (CEST)

June

Tuesday 2021-06-29

Making and verifying backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 19:42, 29 June 2021 (CEST)

Made and verified backups and took a snapshot of the system disk.

Thursday 2021-06-17

Making and verifying backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 14:00, 17 June 2021 (CEST)

Made, verified and stashed backups

Monday 2021-06-14

Took a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 10:56, 14 June 2021 (CEST)

Sunday 2021-06-06

Took a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 11:48, 6 June 2021 (CEST)
Made and verified backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 23:03, 6 June 2021 (CEST)

May

Wednesday 2021-05-26

Took a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 09:21, 26 May 2021 (CEST)

Monday 2021-05-24

~~Making, verifying and stashing backups and taking a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 19:25, 24 May 2021 (CEST)~~

Thursday 2021-05-13

Considering enabling the mw:Extension:VisualEditor that comes standard with MediaWiki 1.35 and above, as according to this Phabricator Ticket T274807 says that the bug that is stopping w:CAPTCHA from being shown to users of the mw:Extension:MobileFrontend when trying to edit does not exhibit in the VisualEditor. If it is so stable that it ships with standard MediaWiki, I guess it is safe to assume that it is a good quality implementation. Juho Kunsola (talk) 19:02, 13 May 2021 (CEST)

Sunday 2021-05-02

Making and verifying backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 10:47, 2 May 2021 (CEST)

Made, verified and distributed backups

April

Thursday 2021-04-22

Making and verifying backups in preparation for upgrading Consumium free social diaspora* at https://d.consumium.org/ to diaspora* version 0.7.15.0. Juho Kunsola (talk) 16:56, 22 April 2021 (CEST)

Made, verified and stashed backups

Sunday 2021-04-11

Made and verified backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 21:34, 11 April 2021 (CEST)
Took a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 19:19, 11 April 2021 (CEST)
Upgraded the wiki to MediaWiki 1.35.2. Juho Kunsola (talk) 18:16, 11 April 2021 (CEST)
Making and verifying backups in preparation for upgrade. Juho Kunsola (talk) 15:11, 11 April 2021 (CEST)

Made and verified the backups and took a snapshot of the system disk

Wednesday 2021-04-07

[[File:KJV Audio Bible - Revelation (Read by Domonique Davis)-qVQEfeQ1Sro.webm|thumb|center|[[w:Book of Revelation]] ([[w:King James Version|w:KJV]], 1611) as audio read by Dominique Davis of the [[w:Faithful Word Baptist Church]]. [[commons:File:KJV_Audio_Bible_-_Revelation_(Read_by_Domonique_Davis)-qVQEfeQ1Sro.webm|The file is from Wikimedia Commons]]]] .

UPDATE: Trying to enable this leads into error messages being thrown because the extensions mw:Extension:EmbedVideo and mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler take the same syntax, which apparently lead to an error message being displayed.

After installing mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler I am seeing the following "Notice: Undefined index: descriptionUrl in /var/www/stop-synthetic-filth.org/w/extensions/EmbedVideo/classes/media/AudioTransformOutput.php on line 95". Looking at how both mw:Extension:EmbedVideo and mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler implement [[File:Filename.ext]]-syntax for audio and video files, that's probably the culprit why this notice is served. Juho Kunsola (talk) 22:20, 7 April 2021 (CEST)

Making and verifying backups and taking a snapshot of the system disk after enabling mw:Extension:HeadScript and then the Tidio chat on SSF! wiki. Also installed and configured mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler, which allows a wiki to display audio and video files in wiki pages, using the same syntax as for image files. This will be useful for the videos in the mediatheque. Juho Kunsola (talk) 21:36, 7 April 2021 (CEST)

Made and verified backups, took a snapshot of the system disk.

Saturday 2021-03-04

Making and verifying backups and taking a snapshot of the system disk after progress in recording the current and possible laws against synthetic filth at Stop Synthetic Filth! wiki Juho Kunsola (talk) 14:41, 3 April 2021 (CEST)

Made, verified and stashed backups and took a snapshot of the system disk.

March

Tuesday 2021-03-23

Making, verifying and stashing backups and also taking a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 11:17, 23 March 2021 (CET)

Backupping and snapshotting complete. Juho Kunsola (talk) 12:08, 23 March 2021 (CET)

Wednesday 2021-03-17

Enabled w:Memcached. See mw:Manual:memcached for info on how to. The wikis really sped up a lot and it ain't using even half of the RAM allocation I gave it.

Sunday 2021-03-07

Making, verifying and stashing backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 16:48, 7 March 2021 (CET)

Done, also took a snapshot of the system disk.

February

Tuesday 2021-02-16

Making, verifying and stashing backups and taking a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 19:47, 16 February 2021 (CET)

Made, verified and stashed backups and took a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 20:13, 16 February 2021 (CET)

Sunday 2021-02-07

I was made aware today by a user on the Consumerium development wiki that there is a problem with invoking the mw:CAPTCHA for the mobile users, rendering mobile users unable to edit any pages. This is a semi-known issue in mw:Extension:MobileFrontend. There is an another minor issue to patch also. I'm looking for a solution or workaround to the problem for our mobile users and making backups now. Juho Kunsola (talk) 16:10, 7 February 2021 (CET)

Made, verified and stashed backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 16:43, 7 February 2021 (CET)

January

Friday 2021-01-22

Making and verifying backups after successfully added some novel contacting methods to the English language #SSF! wordpress. Also made a reasonable mobile menu by adapting this example and wrote a blog post about these improvements. Today I also optimized the #SSF! wiki biblical explainer for mobile users, who comprise majority of the traffic. Juho Kunsola (talk) 18:37, 22 January 2021 (CET)

Made, verified and stashed backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 19:11, 22 January 2021 (CET)

Looking at mw:Help:Tables because many visitors of Biblical explanation - The books of Daniel and Revelation are using a mobile device with around 360 px screen width and I originally did not think of mobile users, hence the table in there is a bit tight for mobile screens. I'm thinking of reorganizing it and figuring out a way to format the explainer-portion as 100% width of the table. Juho Kunsola (talk) 13:23, 22 January 2021 (CET)

Got it sorted. Key was to set the columnspan correctly and just making the tables 2-columns wide instead of 4. Juho Kunsola (talk) 18:37, 22 January 2021 (CET)

Tuesday 2021-01-19

Added some novel contacting methods to the English language #SSF! wordpress and wrote a blog post about it.

Monday 2021-01-18

Figured out how to make a reasonably usable mobile menu for our many mobile visitors, by adapting from this example at extension talk topic.

Friday 2021-01-08

Made, verified and stashed backups + took a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 15:46, 8 January 2021 (CET)
Upgraded the wiki to mw:MediaWiki_1.35.1. Making and verifying backups and taking a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 14:57, 8 January 2021 (CET)

Wednesday 2021-01-06

Snapshot done. Juho Kunsola (talk) 23:05, 6 January 2021 (CET)
Made, verified and stashed backups. Taking a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 22:53, 6 January 2021 (CET)
Making and verifying backups in preparation for upgrade. Juho Kunsola (talk) 22:30, 6 January 2021 (CET)

Sunday 2021-01-03

Took a snapshot of the system disk. Juho Kunsola (talk) 17:43, 3 January 2021 (CET)
Made, verified and stashed backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 16:05, 3 January 2021 (CET)
Making and verifying backups. Juho Kunsola (talk) 14:47, 3 January 2021 (CET)