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Hints about taking care of the wiki.. for better or worse. | Hints about taking care of the wiki.. for better or worse. {{TOCright}} | ||
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* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts | * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts | ||
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php | * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php | ||
* http://wiki.dreamhost.com/MediaWiki | |||
=== | ===Maintenance Scripts=== | ||
* ssh into the dreamhost site | * ssh into the dreamhost site | ||
* cd wiki.hacdc.org/ | * cd wiki.hacdc.org/ | ||
* php-5.4 maintenance/[somescriptname].php | |||
===Content Backup=== | |||
* php-5.4 maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full --report > MW_fullbu_14Dec2012.xml | |||
Gave lots of div by 0 errors, but output seems ok. Have not tried importing it though. | |||
=== Bad Bot Accounts === | |||
* php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete >> rmunused.txt & | * php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete >> rmunused.txt & | ||
*: ... run w/o the --delete flag first | *: ... run w/o the --delete flag first | ||
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===Misc=== | ===Misc=== | ||
* css tweaks -> http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css | * css tweaks -> http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css | ||
* find what IPs have been requesting too many pages.. | |||
*: cat ~/logs/wiki.hacdc.org/http/access.log| awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c |sort -n | |||
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The wiki's software is up to date. | The wiki's software is up to date. | ||
It's running very slowly and has been for a long time. | It's running very slowly and has been for a long time. | ||
Created content backup: MW_fullbu_15Dec2013.xml | |||
There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts. Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots. | There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts. Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots. | ||
I tweaked the removeUnusedAccounts.php script.. took out the check for logs. | I tweaked the removeUnusedAccounts.php script.. took out the check for logs. | ||
Ran and deleted ~146k accounts. | Ran and deleted ~146k accounts, couple thousand remain.. dunno why yet. | ||
Ran updateArticleCount.php (was seeing count errors when editing) | |||
..and why is the memory usage so high? | ..and why is the memory usage so high? |
Latest revision as of 00:24, 16 December 2013
Hints about taking care of the wiki.. for better or worse.
Links
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/MediaWiki
Maintenance Scripts
- ssh into the dreamhost site
- cd wiki.hacdc.org/
- php-5.4 maintenance/[somescriptname].php
Content Backup
- php-5.4 maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full --report > MW_fullbu_14Dec2012.xml
Gave lots of div by 0 errors, but output seems ok. Have not tried importing it though.
Bad Bot Accounts
- php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete >> rmunused.txt &
- ... run w/o the --delete flag first
- tailf rmunused.txt
- go read a book
Misc
- css tweaks -> http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css
- find what IPs have been requesting too many pages..
- cat ~/logs/wiki.hacdc.org/http/access.log| awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c |sort -n
Status and Maintenance Record
2013.12.14
The wiki's software is up to date. It's running very slowly and has been for a long time. Created content backup: MW_fullbu_15Dec2013.xml
There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts. Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots. I tweaked the removeUnusedAccounts.php script.. took out the check for logs. Ran and deleted ~146k accounts, couple thousand remain.. dunno why yet.
Ran updateArticleCount.php (was seeing count errors when editing)
..and why is the memory usage so high?
top - 15:04:00 up 269 days, 10:53, 2 users, load average: 7.47, 7.45, 6.52
Tasks: 13 total, 4 running, 9 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 56.2%us, 3.6%sy, 19.9%ni, 19.5%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 16433988k total, 16262920k used, 171068k free, 1267844k buffers
Swap: 7823644k total, 584084k used, 7239560k free, 4145820k cached