This is also affecting AntiCompositeBot's NoLicense task. I've pointed it at the analytics cluster for now in the hopes that it might be able to complete before the query killer, but given the size of the Commons database I'm not hopeful.

May 4 2024, 1:34 AM · cloud-services-team, Data-Services

May 1 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a project to T354482: Clean up login.wikimedia.org ahead of SUL3 login: Stewards-and-global-tools.

May 1 2024, 8:53 PM · SUL3, Stewards-and-global-tools, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T363885: Panoramic images thumbnailing component.

It only supports TIFF output, so it's necessary to pass the resulting image through ImageMagick to convert it to a JPEG.

May 1 2024, 1:34 AM · Community-Tech, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, Thumbor

Apr 30 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T363769: Restart pod if not all SULWatchers joined to IRC.

Unfortunately the log doesn't provide anything particularly useful:

2024-04-30T01:41:10
Running SULWatcher...
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: getConfig(password)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: getConfig(server)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: getConfig(channel)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: getConfig(nickname)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: buildRegex(self)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: buildWhitelist(self)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: getConfig(alias)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: buildRegex(self)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: buildWhitelist(self)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: getConfig(alias2)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: buildRegex(self)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread DEBUG: buildWhitelist(self)
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread INFO: starting SULWatcher
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread INFO: starting SULWatcher2
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread INFO: starting SULWatcher3
2024-04-30T01:41:14Z SULWatcher MainThread INFO: starting EventStream
2024-04-30T01:41:17Z ib3.nick SULWatcher WARNING: Requested nick "SULWatcher" in use
2024-04-30T01:41:17Z ib3.nick SULWatcher2 WARNING: Requested nick "SULWatcher2" in use
2024-04-30T01:41:17Z ib3.nick SULWatcher3 WARNING: Requested nick "SULWatcher3" in use
2024-04-30T01:41:19Z ib3.auth SULWatcher INFO: Connected to server cadmium.libera.chat
2024-04-30T01:41:19Z ib3.auth SULWatcher2 INFO: Connected to server cadmium.libera.chat
2024-04-30T01:41:19Z ib3.mixins SULWatcher INFO: Joining #wikimedia-unifications
2024-04-30T01:41:19Z ib3.mixins SULWatcher2 INFO: Joining #wikimedia-unifications
2024-04-30T01:41:19Z ib3.auth SULWatcher3 INFO: Connected to server cadmium.libera.chat
2024-04-30T01:41:19Z ib3.mixins SULWatcher3 INFO: Joining #wikimedia-unifications
2024-04-30T18:41:14Z ib3.mixins SULWatcher WARNING: Connection timed out. Disconnecting.
2024-04-30T18:41:14Z ib3.mixins SULWatcher3 WARNING: Connection timed out. Disconnecting.
2024-04-30T18:41:14Z ib3.mixins SULWatcher2 WARNING: Connection timed out. Disconnecting.
2024-04-30T18:42:17Z ib3.auth SULWatcher2 INFO: Connected to server zinc.libera.chat
2024-04-30T18:42:17Z ib3.mixins SULWatcher2 INFO: Joining #wikimedia-unifications

Apr 30 2024, 7:25 PM · stewardbots

Apr 29 2024

AntiCompositeNumber created T363769: Restart pod if not all SULWatchers joined to IRC.

Apr 29 2024, 10:19 PM · stewardbots

Apr 24 2024

AntiCompositeNumber updated the task description for T130031: Cleanup of the project stewardbots.

Apr 24 2024, 7:27 PM · Essential-Work, Stewards-and-global-tools, stewardbots

Apr 14 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a project to T362494: Enable numerical category sorting on Commons: Commons.

Apr 14 2024, 6:14 PM · Commons, Wikimedia-Site-requests

AntiCompositeNumber created T362494: Enable numerical category sorting on Commons.

Apr 14 2024, 6:14 PM · Commons, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Apr 4 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T306391: [jobs-api] Allow Toolforge scheduled jobs to have a maximum runtime.

That's not particularly useful for this task about CronJobs.

Apr 4 2024, 10:39 PM · Toolforge, Kubernetes

AntiCompositeNumber updated the task description for T361876: "General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away" on en:Mir Jumla II.

Apr 4 2024, 7:44 PM · XTools

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T361876: "General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away" on en:Mir Jumla II.

Other people have been reporting various issues on Discord but I have not been able to reproduce them.

Apr 4 2024, 7:43 PM · XTools

AntiCompositeNumber created T361876: "General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away" on en:Mir Jumla II.

Apr 4 2024, 7:42 PM · XTools

Apr 2 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T361407: Add short-to-type aliases for <syntaxhighlight> and <syntaxhighlight inline>.

<shi> combines a tag name (syntaxhighlight) with a boolean parameter (inline). That is even more confusing than the short tag name and should be avoided.

Apr 2 2024, 8:36 PM · SyntaxHighlight

Mar 28 2024

AntiCompositeNumber removed a project from T361232: Update Parsoid baseconfig for kuswiki: Countervandalism-Network.

Mar 28 2024, 2:45 PM · Content-Transform-Team-WIP, Parsoid, Wiki-Setup

AntiCompositeNumber removed a project from T361231: Update Parsoid baseconfig for bewwiki: Countervandalism-Network.

Mar 28 2024, 2:44 PM · Content-Transform-Team-WIP, Parsoid, Wiki-Setup

Mar 24 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T97233: Incorrect text positioning in SVG with tspan element and text-anchor attribute.

Look. The people on this task are the people who are annoyed by it already. Complaining more here won't get you anywhere. Complain to WMF management, who are the people who can allocate resources to this.

Mar 24 2024, 3:19 PM · Thumbor, Upstream, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering

Mar 22 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T360790: stewardbot KeyError: 0.

here's a modify and a remove for the record

{
  "$schema": "/mediawiki/recentchange/1.0.0",
  "meta": {
    "uri": "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:192.0.2.1",
    "request_id": "516ec711-ddc3-40c2-ae90-ab3bb2ec77ae",
    "id": "22c81925-0043-45fc-9e78-7e4471201489",
    "dt": "2024-03-22T20:07:32Z",
    "domain": "meta.wikimedia.org",
    "stream": "mediawiki.recentchange",
    "topic": "eqiad.mediawiki.recentchange",
    "partition": 0,
    "offset": 4965968820
  },
  "id": 30478275,
  "type": "log",
  "namespace": 2,
  "title": "User:192.0.2.1",
  "title_url": "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:192.0.2.1",
  "comment": "testing [[phab:T360790]]",
  "timestamp": 1711138052,
  "user": "AntiCompositeNumber",
  "bot": false,
  "log_id": 55496195,
  "log_type": "gblblock",
  "log_action": "modify",
  "log_params": {
    "expiry": "20240405200732",
    "flags": []
  },
  "log_action_comment": "AntiCompositeNumber changed global block settings for 192.0.2.1 with an expiration time of 20:07, 5 April 2024 : testing [[phab:T360790]]",
  "server_url": "https://meta.wikimedia.org",
  "server_name": "meta.wikimedia.org",
  "server_script_path": "/w",
  "wiki": "metawiki",
  "parsedcomment": "testing <a href=\"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360790\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"phab:T360790\">phab:T360790</a>"
}

Mar 22 2024, 11:43 PM · stewardbots

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T360790: stewardbot KeyError: 0.

{
  "$schema": "/mediawiki/recentchange/1.0.0",
  "meta": {
    "uri": "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:13.105.28.0/23",
    "request_id": "fdac3c05-d6f9-4053-abca-e1bb61c10322",
    "id": "20cccbb1-c06e-4bdc-9aae-7e266cc3aa65",
    "dt": "2024-03-22T16:29:51Z",
    "domain": "meta.wikimedia.org",
    "stream": "mediawiki.recentchange",
    "topic": "eqiad.mediawiki.recentchange",
    "partition": 0,
    "offset": 4965559158
  },
  "id": 30476671,
  "type": "log",
  "namespace": 2,
  "title": "User:13.105.28.0/23",
  "title_url": "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:13.105.28.0/23",
  "comment": "[[m:NOP|Open proxy/Webhost]]: Visit the [[m:WM:OP/H|FAQ]] if you are affected <!-- Microsoft Azure -->",
  "timestamp": 1711124991,
  "user": "AntiCompositeNumber",
  "bot": false,
  "log_id": 55494762,
  "log_type": "gblblock",
  "log_action": "gblock",
  "log_params": {
    "expiry": "20270122162951",
    "flags": []
  },
  "log_action_comment": "AntiCompositeNumber globally blocked 13.105.28.0/23 with an expiration time of 16:29, 22 January 2027 : [[m:NOP|Open proxy/Webhost]]: Visit the [[m:WM:OP/H|FAQ]] if you are affected <!-- Microsoft Azure -->",
  "server_url": "https://meta.wikimedia.org",
  "server_name": "meta.wikimedia.org",
  "server_script_path": "/w",
  "wiki": "metawiki",
  "parsedcomment": "<a href=\"https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NOP\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"m:NOP\">Open proxy/Webhost</a>: Visit the <a href=\"https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:OP/H\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"m:WM:OP/H\">FAQ</a> if you are affected &lt;!-- Microsoft Azure --&gt;"
}

yup, looks like log_params is now an object with named values instead of an array. Gotta love un-announced breaking changes.

Mar 22 2024, 4:32 PM · stewardbots

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T360790: stewardbot KeyError: 0.

Looking further at the logs, it's happening for every global block.

Mar 22 2024, 3:49 PM · stewardbots

AntiCompositeNumber created T360790: stewardbot KeyError: 0.

Mar 22 2024, 3:48 PM · stewardbots

Mar 9 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T319912: Migrate multichill from Toolforge GridEngine to Toolforge Kubernetes.

Based on https://grid-deprecation.toolforge.org/, this tool has important jobs still running on the Grid. These will no longer run when the Grid is shut down on Thursday.

Mar 9 2024, 1:14 AM · Tools, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2024, Grid-Engine-to-K8s-Migration

Mar 3 2024

AntiCompositeNumber awarded T312315: Random "Confirm before you leave" alerts when browsing Wikimedia Commons. a The World Burns token.

Mar 3 2024, 12:00 AM · User-notice-archive, Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.22; 2024-03-12), Commons, Structured Data Engineering, WikibaseMediaInfo

Feb 24 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T329327: Frequent `429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://stream.wikimedia.org/v2/stream/recentchange` errors in SULWatcher.

This is now also affecting StewardBot.

Feb 24 2024, 5:04 PM · Toolforge, Tools, EventStreams, Event-Platform, Data-Engineering, stewardbots

Feb 16 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T357729: wikibugs having a hard time staying connected to libera.chat IRC network.

Feb 06 07:06:09 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 06 08:00:59 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 07 10:49:59 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Ping timeout: 272 seconds)
Feb 08 00:21:46 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (*.net *.split)
Feb 08 13:00:54 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
Feb 08 17:29:56 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 08 17:37:37 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 09 05:18:38 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 10 04:55:49 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
Feb 10 12:14:50 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 12 16:16:00 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
Feb 12 18:05:13 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 14 09:11:21 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 15 04:07:59 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
Feb 15 05:49:23 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)
Feb 16 04:16:54 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
Feb 16 06:16:41 ◀━━ Quits:	wikibugs (~wikibugs2@wikimedia/bot/pywikibugs) (Remote host closed the connection)

(times UTC-5)

Feb 16 2024, 9:27 PM · User-bd808, Wikibugs

Feb 15 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T357729: wikibugs having a hard time staying connected to libera.chat IRC network.

The SULWatchers have had some connection problems lately as well, but not to the same frequency.

Feb 15 2024, 10:09 PM · User-bd808, Wikibugs

Feb 13 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T355980: [vrts] Move attachment storage out of mysql.

In T355980#9539657, @Ladsgroup wrote:

Something to consider, definitely needs to talk to the community first: Is really attachments from ten years ago needed? Can we set up a threshold and delete attachments after certain time (to be determined by VRTS admins)?

Feb 13 2024, 7:59 PM · Znuny, collaboration-services

Feb 2 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T209437: Migrate primary Wikimedia video format from VP9 to AV1.

Thumbnailing is unrelated to transcoding support.

Feb 2 2024, 11:05 PM · TimedMediaHandler-Transcode

AntiCompositeNumber removed a parent task for T296562: Support thumbnailing AV1-encoded webm files: T209437: Migrate primary Wikimedia video format from VP9 to AV1.

Feb 2 2024, 11:05 PM · Upstream, Thumbor

AntiCompositeNumber removed a subtask for T209437: Migrate primary Wikimedia video format from VP9 to AV1: T296562: Support thumbnailing AV1-encoded webm files.

Feb 2 2024, 11:04 PM · TimedMediaHandler-Transcode

Jan 19 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T355286: [Epic] Globally blocking a temporary account should prevent further account creations.

Either T17294: Allow globally blocking of accounts or T19929: CentralAuth account locks should trigger global autoblocks would be sufficient. Global blocks for accounts would be more useful in the long run though.

Jan 19 2024, 4:56 PM · Temporary accounts (Blockers to pilot wiki deployment), Trust and Safety Product Team, Stewards-and-global-tools, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth

Jan 17 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T343131: Commons database is growing way too fast.

In T343131#9467239, @RoyZuo wrote:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3Anbsp+insource%3A%2F%5C%7Bnbsp%2F&ns10=1

Jan 17 2024, 10:20 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.23; 2024-03-19), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Data-Persistence (work done), Commons

Jan 14 2024

JoKalliauer awarded T265549: Update librsvg to version > 2.44.10 (2.50.3) a Cup of Joe token.

Jan 14 2024, 12:00 PM · User-notice-archive, Packaging, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor

Jan 11 2024

AntiCompositeNumber created T354859: Mobile web users do not see block information when affected by multiple blocks.

Jan 11 2024, 2:18 PM · Stewards-and-global-tools, MobileFrontend, MediaWiki-Blocks, GlobalBlocking, Trust and Safety Product Team

Jan 8 2024

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T75714: Update JavaScript syntax checker for gadgets and user-scripts for ES6 and later.

I would suggest changing the user-notice to reflect that:

... Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future.

Jan 8 2024, 9:01 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.13; 2024-01-09 ), Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, Design-System-Team, MediaWiki-ResourceLoader

Dec 26 2023

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T334992: License picker on Special:Upload defaults to last section header.

Early this year is my best guess. My memory is hazy, but I think I noticed it in March before I decided to report in April.

Dec 26 2023, 5:52 PM · MW-1.40-notes, MW-1.39-notes, MW-1.41-notes, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.12; 2024-01-02), MediaWiki-Uploading, Commons

Dec 21 2023

AntiCompositeNumber placed T320041: Migrate sigma from Toolforge GridEngine to Toolforge Kubernetes up for grabs.

Dec 21 2023, 3:39 AM · Grid-Engine-to-K8s-Migration

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T320041: Migrate sigma from Toolforge GridEngine to Toolforge Kubernetes.

This is a critical tool for anti-abuse workflows on multiple wikis. Sigma is inactive, and I asked Earwig about it on their talk page:

@AntiCompositeNumber: Ah. No, the timeline's been so protracted, I haven't been actively following things and didn't know this was happening today. (The date in my mind was early next year.) I could probably do it, but certainly can't allocate time right now to immediately fix this. — The Earwig (talk) 03:27, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Dec 21 2023, 3:39 AM · Grid-Engine-to-K8s-Migration

AntiCompositeNumber added a comment to T248632: Implement new signature requirements.

signatures.toolforge.org uses the expandtemplates API, which does not expand parserfunctions. In theory the parse API would work better, but I haven't investigated it.

Dec 21 2023, 12:37 AM · Editing-team, DiscussionTools