FactGrid:Server Admin Log

A very rudimentary log of changes made to the FactGrid technical infrastructure. Inspired by wikitech:Server Admin Log but much less structured – just manually maintained. Started November 2023, earlier changes aren’t really logged anywhere in much detail (but the history of FactGrid:Setup may be useful). Newest entries first.

• Upgraded wiki to MediaWiki 1.39.10: cd /var/www/w/ && for dir in . extensions/*/ skins/*/; do echo; echo $dir; git -C "$dir" pull; done && php composer.phar update && php maintenance/update.php --quick && git submodule update; the submodule update seemed to be needed because many of the repositories were not on a branch and thus git pull had no effect (but I intentionally left out --init to avoid initializing any new submodules) —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:52, 2 October 2024 (CEST)
• Set $wgLocaltimezone = 'Europe/Berlin'; (and date_default_timezone_set( $wgLocaltimezone ); per mw:Manual:Timezone), apparently the time zone was previously set to CET (though I don’t know where this would have been set) and seemingly got reset to UTC during one of the Debian upgrades(?) —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 11:44, 23 August 2024 (CEST)
• Tried tweaking the auto-restart settings of mediawiki-jobrunner.service, blazegraph-update.service and quickstatements-bot.service so systemd wouldn’t rate-limit the restarts anymore – had previously tried StartLimitIntervalSec=10s + StartLimitBurst=20, now trying StartLimitIntervalSec=0 —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 09:18, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
• Upgraded server from Debian Bullseye (11) to Bookworm (12) —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 09:31, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
• Configured Ottoman Turkish (ota) as additional languages in $wgExtraLanguageNames —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:47, 11 August 2024 (CEST)
• Configured Akkadian (akk) and Sumerian (sux) as additional languages in $wgExtraLanguageNames —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:53, 1 August 2024 (CEST)
• Upgraded server from Debian Stretch (9) to Buster (10) and then Bullseye (11) —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:12, 20 July 2024 (CEST)
• Upgraded wiki a bit more (no new version number apparently but there were still a handfull of commits), as below: cd /var/www/w/ && for dir in . extensions/*/ skins/*/; do echo; echo $dir; git -C "$dir" pull; done && php composer.phar update && php maintenance/update.php --quick —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 21:08, 10 July 2024 (CEST)
• Installed new units, mediawiki-jobqueue-restart.service and mediawiki-jobqueue-restart.timer, to try and restart a potentially stuck job queue every night. —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 21:44, 9 July 2024 (CEST)
• systemctl restart mediawiki-jobqueue —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 14:04, 9 July 2024 (CEST)
• Upgraded wiki to MediaWiki 1.39.8: —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:15, 28 June 2024 (CEST)
  • cd /var/www/w/
  • for dir in . extensions/*/ skins/*/; do echo; echo $dir; git -C "$dir" pull; done
  • php composer.phar update
  • php maintenance/update.php --quick
• systemctl enable --now openrefine-wikibase.service (see immediately below) —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:03, 28 February 2024 (CET)
• systemctl enable --now elasticsearch (search was broken after a server crash – turns out the service wasn’t set to start automatically) —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:56, 27 February 2024 (CET)
• Undeprecated Property:P53 for use as $wgWBQualityConstraintsLanguagePropertyId (equivalent to P424 on Wikidata), and configured Property:P822 as $wgLexemeLanguageCodePropertyId (equivalent to P218 on Wikidata) —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 16:20, 25 February 2024 (CET)
• Bumped PHP memory limit from 128 MiB to 256 MiB —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:35, 4 February 2024 (CET)
• Installed WikibaseQualityConstraints and ran extensions/WikibaseQualityConstraints/maintenance/ImportConstraintEntities.php to import entities (several times, due to the rate limit) —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:35, 4 February 2024 (CET)
• Updated MediaWiki to 1.39.6 —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:53, 22 December 2023 (CET)
• Changed one /srv/wdqs-0.3.97-SNAPSHOT/whitelist.txt entry from https://test.iconclass.org/sparql to https://iconclass.org/sparql —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:53, 28 November 2023 (CET)
• Changed one /srv/wdqs-0.3.97-SNAPSHOT/whitelist.txt entry from https://data.bnf.fr/sparql/ to https://data.bnf.fr/sparql —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:52, 27 November 2023 (CET)
• Added four endpoints to /srv/wdqs-0.3.97-SNAPSHOT/whitelist.txt per request by User:Jean-Baptiste Pressac: https://data.idref.fr/sparql, https://data.bnf.fr/sparql/, https://nakala.fr/sparql, https://test.iconclass.org/sparql —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:08, 24 November 2023 (CET)