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Most recent dumps

Hello,

The most recent dump for frwiktionary is available since 15 hours , but the timestamp for this dump is not yet available in /public/dumps/public. Could not it be faster? Automatik (talk) 13:49, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Hostnames

I'm not necessarily convinced that promoting login.tools.wmflabs.org & Co. is a good idea as apart from DNS the user encounters tools-login & Co. everywhere else, notably at the prompt. --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 21:08, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

I cleaned up Help:Tool_Labs#Bastion hosts and surroundings as part of phab:T91509 work, and now it mentions tools-login.wmflabs.org first. Yuvipanda, which hostname should guides favor? -- spage (talk) 02:25, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Main contributor(s)

Hi, is there a tool to list all articles in a language version of wikipedia, in which a certain user is the main contributor? Cheers, --Ghilt (talk) 20:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Missing table in DB

Hi Tool Labs, even as a newby i could easily connect to the replica by following the described steps. However, what i now wonder about is where i can find the wikitexts of pages? The DB scheme describes that there is a text table but i cannot find it on the replica. Any help appriciated... Thank you. --Arnd (talk) 12:30, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

In the WMF cluster, the article contents are not stored in the database, but on separate servers. These are neither replicated to Labs nor can they be directly accessed otherwise. You need to use …/w/index.php?title=…&action=raw (for simple cases) or the API (…/w/api.php) for that. You can find an example here. Remember to change the …?format= parameter to the format your script should use. --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 22:03, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer. This REST-API approach seems rather slow when looking for special patterns in articles. Maybe then its better to use a data dump instead. --Arnd (talk) 18:18, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Need to update page

I was following a link to a tool that apparently no longer exists and eventually ended up at the Tools page. But when I clicked on most of the links, I received error messages or messages that the tool or page no longer exists. Is there any way this page can be kept up-to-date and tools that no longer exist or function can be removed from the list? It would really increase the usefulness of this list for editors. Liz (talk) 18:14, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Which "most" links do not work for you? The list is created dynamically inter alia by looking at whether a tool has a running webservice. So if a tool's link yields an error message, you should contact its maintainer directly. --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 04:25, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

rm some redundancy?

can we remove some redundancy?

see e.g. special:diff/156222/156224. --jeremyb (talk) 21:42, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Yup. I referred to Contacts section in Help:Tool_Labs#Troubleshooting. As for duplication in /* Moving a tool from Toolserver to Tool Labs */, the migration is complete and Toolserver shut down in July 2014, so I killed it altogether. -- spage (talk) 03:12, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Translation tool

Hi everybody, I am from the French wikipedia. I worked on a small tool aiming at automatising the creation of references. It is here. The question is whether it would be possible to host it on a server from the wikimedia foundation instead of using a random server, which seems to create problems with some antivirus softwares. Thank you for your assistance. --Lebronj23 (talk) 21:33, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes, this looks like it would be a good match for tool labs. If you follow the Quick start guide, the new tool guide and the web tool notes, you should be good to go! valhallasw (Merlijn van Deen) (talk) 08:56, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I will have a look at the links you adviced. --Lebronj23 (talk) 19:19, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Cannot find MediaWiki job error logs

Where would I find logs covering any exceptions thrown from a MediaWiki background job? Thanks, Awight (talk) 07:57, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

As this is not related to Tool Labs infrastructure, it's probably better to ask this question in one of the MediaWiki support channels. valhallasw (Merlijn van Deen) (talk) 11:16, 14 December 2015 (UTC)