Upgrades and Changes

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

2013-12-14

According to MediaWiki documentation on privilege rights to the wikiuser index, create, select, insert, update, delete, alter, lock tables should be set. But running the rebuildall.php maintenance script brings up the error DROP command denied to user 'wikiuser' for table 'smw_new'. So DROP must be activated for the wiki user to run the rebuildall.php script. Should be checked in phpmydamin if semantic mediawiki extensions are activated. --Andreas Plank (talk) 11:17, 14 December 2013 (CET)

Help:Installation General Notes for SMW states:
“For installation and upgrade, SMW needs the rights to create new tables (CREATE) and to alter tables (ALTER TABLE). You can remove both rights after SMW is set up. The script SMW_setup.php can use the DB credentials from AdminSettings.php for this purpose, avoiding the need of extra rights for the wiki DB user.”

Not sure whether table rights can stripped of the extended table rights or not. Running maintenance sudo rebuildall.php seems to need extended rights for SMW. --Andreas Plank (talk) 15:26, 8 January 2014 (CET)

2013-12-16

Upgrade Semantic Forms to version 2.6 --Andreas Plank (talk) 22:36, 16 December 2013 (CET)

2013-12-23

Falko Glöckler added WYSIWIG editor to MfN test wikis --WikiSysop (talk) 04:37, 24 December 2013 (CET)

2014-01-15

Both storage and dump partitions increased to 350 GB each, content moved from old to new partition in Xen. Xen full VM export made. --Gregor Hagedorn (talk) 02:31, 15 January 2014 (CET)

2014-04-28

Added Wiki http://www.mod-co.net/ --Andreas Plank (talk) 14:33, 28 April 2014 (CEST)

2014-05-08

Disabled global inclusion of out of date Widgets extension in preparation for test of current Widgets Extension. There is a Widgets_Discussion page for discussion of the update and its use. It would be particularly helpful if sysops of affected farm wikis would mention what page on which wiki are affected. If brief, that can be done on this page. If not, please do so on Widgets_Discussion

When the new extension is in place, this page will carry a notice --BobMorris (talk) 17:02, 8 May 2014 (CEST) As of late on 8 May 2014 The Widgets extension is in place, but any wiki that wants to use it will have to enable it in its LocalSettings. At some future time to be decided by Gregor, Widgets will become available to all wikis in the farm, and a notice applied in this page. --BobMorris (talk) 23:02, 11 May 2014 (CEST)

In mediawiki20/extensions renamed Widgets Widgets.2012 --BobMorris (talk) 17:45, 8 May 2014 (CEST)

2014-05-11

Fixed caching media. Adjusted path. --Andreas Plank (talk) 16:39, 11 May 2014 (CEST)

2014-05-13

Fixed broken rsvg, maybe some libraryies were not up to date. Removed librsvg2-bin, updated package list installed it again librsvg2-bin. Works now. Still a problem https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45054 (a blank between option height -h400 is needed) is fixed in MW 1.21. Current fix is

$wgSVGConverters ['rsvg'] ='$path/rsvg -w $width -h $height $input $output';// BUG resolved after MW 1.21 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45054

--Andreas Plank (talk) 18:23, 13 May 2014 (CEST)

2014-05-30

Fixed missing cache directory (MWException) in OpenMedia and corrected symbolic links in following Wikis: all v-species, offene naturführer, studienstiftung, testwiki2, v-filteredpush, v-floramalesiana, v-fotoflora-bb, v-gbif-d, v-hypergarden, v-ibiosphere, v-ides, v-ispi, h = teachers handbook wiki, w = KeyToNature, v-lias (c = checklist, w= wiki), v-naturgucker/r, v-orowiki, v-phytomed, v-phytopathology, v-plantnet/terms/f, v-plantnet/uses/e, v-rosaceae, v-ukcounty, v-workbench, v-zsm --Andreas Plank (talk) 11:35, 30 May 2014 (CEST)

2014-06-07

In the last week we had some problems as a result of incompatibility of the biowikifarm VM software and the virtualization host. The host has now been updated to Xen 6.2 with all patches. --Gregor Hagedorn (talk) 20:14, 7 June 2014 (CEST)

2014-06-11

4 plantnet-project.org wikis fixed: Michel Chauvet reported the 4 plantnet-project.org wikis not working. When accessing the site, the error message "Fatal exception of type MWException" appeared. After setting $wgShowExceptionDetails = true;, the error message stated "Unable to create the localisation store directory '/var/www/v-plantnet/uses/e/cache'". This problem was easily fixed by running

cd /var/www/v-plantnet/uses/e/
sudo mkdir cache && sudo chown www-data:www-data cache

and repeating it in the other wiki directories. --David Fichtmueller (talk)

2014-07-01

added new wikis:

• GFBio Terms Wiki
• Terminology Sandbox Wiki This wiki can be used by any BWF user to play around with the functionalities of SemanticMediaWiki without working on existing terminologies like on the TDWG Terms Wiki.

-- David Fichtmueller (talk) 10:40, 1 July 2014 (CEST)