A number of tools hosted on Toolforge rely on the replicated MediaWiki databases, dubbed "Wiki Replicas". Every so often these servers have replication lag, which affects the data returned as well as the performance of the queries. And when this happens, users get confused and start reporting bugs that aren't…
This past weekend at Wikipedia Day I had a discussion with Enterprisey and some other folks about different ways edit counters (more on that in a different blog post) could visualize edits, and one of the things that came up was GitHub's scorecard and streaks. Then I saw a post…
Toolforge is a free cloud computing platform designed for and used by the Wikimedia movement to host various tools and bots. One of the coolest parts of using Toolforge is that you get access to redacted copies of the MediaWiki MySQL database replicas, aka the wiki replicas. (Note that whenever…
I started porting my #Toolforge support library to #Rust: https://crates.io/crates/toolforgeDocs at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm/toolforge_library and of course https://docs.rs/toolforge/
Over the past two weeks I significantly sped up two of my Toolforge tools by using Redis, a key-value database. The two tools, checker and shorturls were slow for different reasons, but now respond instantaneously. Note that I didn't do any proper benchmarking, it's just noticably faster. If you're not…
Tried to get a #rustlang tool deployed on #Toolforge today and failed. Wrote a quick summary on how to move forward: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194953#6183849Input from experienced rust Toolforgers like @magnusmanske and @danielhglus would be appreciated.
