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== 2010-03-06 ==
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This page documents changes in the installed software on the biowikifarm (new software, new version, new configuration, etc.), including notes on known problems. Upgrades and Changes from 2010 and 2011 are no longer shown and available through the page history. Older changes are occasionally [[Upgrade and Change Archive|archived]]
  
The Semantic Forms extension has been enabled (and is running) on the Test Wiki.
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<!-- COMMENT: unfortunately this form is only capable of appending not of pre-pending -->
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<inputbox>
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type=commenttitle
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buttonlabel=Add this new section to the page’s bottom
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break=no
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page={{PAGENAME}}
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default=== {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}} ==
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</inputbox>
  
== 2010-03-01 ==
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__TOC__
  
The Semantic MediaWiki extension has been enabled (and is running) on the Media Wiki, Test Wiki, and the Pest Information Wiki.
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== 2017-10-26 ==
  
== 2010-02-02 ==
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Entire Biowikfarm now runs on at least MW 1.26.2 [[User:Andreas Plank|Andreas Plank]] ([[User talk:Andreas Plank|talk]]) 22:32, 26 October 2017 (CEST)
  
The Debian system was upgraded from Debian 4 to Debian 4.
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== 2017-11-12 ==
  
== 2010-01-27==
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New Wiki https://biowikifarm.net/wikibase/ for experimenting with properties covering multiple Wikis at once --[[User:Andreas Plank|Andreas Plank]] ([[User talk:Andreas Plank|talk]]) 17:01, 16 November 2017 (CET)
  
Configured specialmedia as second, non-free repository (for non-licensed logos etc.)
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== 2017-12-30 ==
  
== 2009-12-10==
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Between 14. and 29.12 the biowikifarm experienced a serious outage. No data were lost, but a sequence of suddenly increased usage (perhaps through bots), resulting in a necessity to optimize and update software. However, in turn, this lead to software compatibility problems which proved hard to solve for all current administrators. We are working on improving our procedures and available resources to avoid such problems in the future. Among other changes, php was updated to 5.6 and the database to MariaDB 10.2 in this period. -[[User:Gregor Hagedorn|Gregor Hagedorn]] ([[User talk:Gregor Hagedorn|talk]]) 01:06, 30 December 2017 (CET)
  
Created 4 new wikis: ispiwiki, specialmedia, french species-id, and potential french uses wiki.
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== 2018-02-14 ==
  
== 2009-12-05==
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Installed and activated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CookieWarning . The extension was not yet installed for version 1.26, and manually added (this may be relevant on next upgrade!) Folders .../mediawiki26/extensions-rich-features/CookieWarning and .../mediawiki26/extensions-simple-features/CookieWarning were manually created and filled with separately downloaded code (version 1.30). --[[User:Gregor Hagedorn|Gregor Hagedorn]] ([[User talk:Gregor Hagedorn|talk]]) 01:37, 14 February 2018 (CET)
  
German Naturwiki moved to new virtual host (v-onf) and new domains, see http://www.offene-naturfuehrer.de/w/index.php?title=Projektfortschritt&action=historysubmit&diff=3838&oldid=3807 for details. Php updated, cli and apache scripts left unchanged.
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== 2018-12-19 ==
  
== 2009-11-29 ==
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A new version of nodejs and parsoid have been installed, which makes it now possible to active the VisualEditor. The steps required to install nodejs and parsoid have been documented at [[Parsoid installation]] and here is [[Visual Editor|the guide to activate the Visual Editor in the individual wikis with different possible settings]]. This should make editing the wikis for regular users a lot easier.
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--[[User:David Fichtmueller|David Fichtmueller]] ([[User talk:David Fichtmueller|talk]]) 16:08, 19 December 2018 (CET)
  
'''SVG handling now working!''' (fixed by Bob Morris): "apt-get install librsvg2-bin librsvg2-2"; because executable is named rsvg-convert, some special things had to be done ($wgSVGConverters = array( 'rsvg' => '/usr/bin/rsvg-convert -w $width -h $height -o $output $input'); $wgSVGConverter = 'rsvg' ; ([http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSVGConverters#Platform-specific_notes]).
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== 2019-04-10 ==
  
== 2009-11-27 ==
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Fix [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:UploadWizard|Extension:UploadWizard]] globally to have also soft dependency of [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:EventLogging|Extension:EventLogging]] for creating Campaigns it is necessary --[[User:Andreas Plank|Andreas Plank]] ([[User talk:Andreas Plank|talk]]) 12:58, 11 April 2019 (CEST)
  
Normal file upload '''was not working''' since 25th, a javascipt progress box kicks in and prevents uploads. Updating to newest en.wikipedia rev. 59476, upload now possible. Problems with jquery no longer being made available. Modifying IdentificationTools extension to make sure jquery is being included. '''Upload working again'''.
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== 2019-07-10 ==
  
== 2009-11-25 ==
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Added extension Arrays to https://offene-naturfuehrer.de for the use to get large data unique --[[User:Andreas Plank|Andreas Plank]] ([[User talk:Andreas Plank|talk]]) 15:32, 10 July 2019 (CEST)
  
* trying to install svg support: > apt-get install librsvg2-2 - plus changes in common settings. SVG still not rendered.
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== 2019-11-13 ==
* updating main mediawiki installation to r59214 - identical with en.wikipedia now.
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== 2009-11-24 ==
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Added cron job for <code>runJobs.php</code> of wikis with the simple extensions setup and added <code>/etc/logrotate.d/wiki-runJobs</code> for those logfiles generated by the cronjob triggered script of <code>extensions/CommonsMediaCaching/runJobs_simple-extensions.sh</code>. (Hope it works) --[[User:Andreas Plank|Andreas Plank]] ([[User talk:Andreas Plank|talk]]) 13:36, 13 November 2019 (CET)
  
* testwiki/staging SVN-update to newest en.wikipedia version r59214 - MultiUpload still does not work.
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== 2019-12-16 ==
* Detected that on Naturwiki LocalSettings.php has $wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook'; which works for most pages, but NOT for http://www.species-id.net/naturwiki/Hauptseite for non-logged in users. The source was in the cache - someone must have tested K2N-skin in the settings and this was permeated in the page cache.
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* Disabled some undesirable skins in CommonSettings.php (no longer user-selectable, to reduce possible confusion)
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* Changed Naturwiki to Vector skin - trial! - --[[User:Gregor Hagedorn|Gregor Hagedorn]] 22:40, 24 November 2009 (CET)
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== 2009-10-22 ==
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Fix RDF export for [[Extension:XMLTransformation]] (eg. used on https://terms.tdwg.org): <code>xsltproc</code> does not parse external URLs (?any more?), so local temporary files are created to process and transform the XML. --[[User:Andreas Plank|Andreas Plank]] ([[User talk:Andreas Plank|talk]]) 14:10, 16 December 2019 (CET)
  
* Image zooming (based on URL-based thumb generation acts strangely, probably all the time since 2009-10-16.
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== 2020-11-12 ==
  
== 2009-10-20 ==
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Currently there are issues with the email notifications, which also means that it is not easy for new users to register: (1) the emails to confirm the email address are not send out,(2) the notifications to the admins to confirm the accounts are not send and even if they know that people registered and approved the accounts manually, (3) the email with the temporary passwords are not send out as well, so the users can't log in. Issues 1 and 2 can be avoided by regularly checking Special:ConfirmAccounts of your wiki, but the third issue can be solved by logging into the server via SSH and then running:
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cd /var/www/metawiki/
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php maintenance/changePassword.php --user=User\ Name --password=<insert temporary yet secure password here> --conf LocalSettings.php
  
* Caching problems for anonymous users served directly out of the cache. Strangely, only main page seems to be affected. Removed main page from cache. Normally, [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCacheEpoch $wgCacheEpoch] should handle updates after changing CommonsSettings...
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You can then send the temporary password to the users manually and ask them to change it once they have logged in (not sure if this happens automatically)
* MultiUpload extension is broken, changing temporarily to single upload (Common Setting URL redirection, menu of openmedia; revert when MultiUpload works again).
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Maybe this helps some of you. [[User:David Fichtmueller|David Fichtmueller]] ([[User talk:David Fichtmueller|talk]]) 15:16, 12 November 2020 (CET)
 
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== 2009-10-16 ==
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* Upgraded Mediawiki to newest version (r57940). Problems with the new JS2 system detect, preliminary using jquery instead of $ or $j in scripts.
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Latest revision as of 15:16, 12 November 2020

This page documents changes in the installed software on the biowikifarm (new software, new version, new configuration, etc.), including notes on known problems. Upgrades and Changes from 2010 and 2011 are no longer shown and available through the page history. Older changes are occasionally archived

2017-10-26

Entire Biowikfarm now runs on at least MW 1.26.2 Andreas Plank (talk) 22:32, 26 October 2017 (CEST)

2017-11-12

New Wiki https://biowikifarm.net/wikibase/ for experimenting with properties covering multiple Wikis at once --Andreas Plank (talk) 17:01, 16 November 2017 (CET)

2017-12-30

Between 14. and 29.12 the biowikifarm experienced a serious outage. No data were lost, but a sequence of suddenly increased usage (perhaps through bots), resulting in a necessity to optimize and update software. However, in turn, this lead to software compatibility problems which proved hard to solve for all current administrators. We are working on improving our procedures and available resources to avoid such problems in the future. Among other changes, php was updated to 5.6 and the database to MariaDB 10.2 in this period. -Gregor Hagedorn (talk) 01:06, 30 December 2017 (CET)

2018-02-14

Installed and activated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CookieWarning . The extension was not yet installed for version 1.26, and manually added (this may be relevant on next upgrade!) Folders .../mediawiki26/extensions-rich-features/CookieWarning and .../mediawiki26/extensions-simple-features/CookieWarning were manually created and filled with separately downloaded code (version 1.30). --Gregor Hagedorn (talk) 01:37, 14 February 2018 (CET)

2018-12-19

A new version of nodejs and parsoid have been installed, which makes it now possible to active the VisualEditor. The steps required to install nodejs and parsoid have been documented at Parsoid installation and here is the guide to activate the Visual Editor in the individual wikis with different possible settings. This should make editing the wikis for regular users a lot easier. --David Fichtmueller (talk) 16:08, 19 December 2018 (CET)

2019-04-10

Fix Extension:UploadWizard globally to have also soft dependency of Extension:EventLogging for creating Campaigns it is necessary --Andreas Plank (talk) 12:58, 11 April 2019 (CEST)

2019-07-10

Added extension Arrays to https://offene-naturfuehrer.de for the use to get large data unique --Andreas Plank (talk) 15:32, 10 July 2019 (CEST)

2019-11-13

Added cron job for runJobs.php of wikis with the simple extensions setup and added /etc/logrotate.d/wiki-runJobs for those logfiles generated by the cronjob triggered script of extensions/CommonsMediaCaching/runJobs_simple-extensions.sh. (Hope it works) --Andreas Plank (talk) 13:36, 13 November 2019 (CET)

2019-12-16

Fix RDF export for Extension:XMLTransformation (eg. used on https://terms.tdwg.org): xsltproc does not parse external URLs (?any more?), so local temporary files are created to process and transform the XML. --Andreas Plank (talk) 14:10, 16 December 2019 (CET)

2020-11-12

Currently there are issues with the email notifications, which also means that it is not easy for new users to register: (1) the emails to confirm the email address are not send out,(2) the notifications to the admins to confirm the accounts are not send and even if they know that people registered and approved the accounts manually, (3) the email with the temporary passwords are not send out as well, so the users can't log in. Issues 1 and 2 can be avoided by regularly checking Special:ConfirmAccounts of your wiki, but the third issue can be solved by logging into the server via SSH and then running:

cd /var/www/metawiki/
php maintenance/changePassword.php --user=User\ Name --password=<insert temporary yet secure password here> --conf LocalSettings.php

You can then send the temporary password to the users manually and ask them to change it once they have logged in (not sure if this happens automatically) Maybe this helps some of you. David Fichtmueller (talk) 15:16, 12 November 2020 (CET)