The file http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/wikipedia/en/centralnotice.js does not appear to be HTTP compressed by the server. Doing so would save ~1.4kb, or ~65% of its size. It would probably fit into one or two packets rather than the three that it currently occupies.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Giving half of Fred's old bugs to Ashar since I trust him to get it done or reassign if he doesn't have time.
It should either be part of the extension, in which case it can be loaded from wgExtensionAssetsPath:
http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/CentralNotice/centralnotice.js
Or, if WMF specific, it could be stored locally and defined as a module in CommonSettings.php and loaded (so that it's cached and minifed, and served from bits.wikimedia.org/wiki.domain/load.php, the same way other skins and extensions styles/scripts are loaded.
The file centralnotice.js does exist in SVN but does not mach the one at:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/wikipedia/en/centralnotice.js
Is the one from upload.wm.o still in use ? perhaps this has been fixed already...
(In reply to comment #7)
Or just RL-ify CentralNotice?
it would have to be part of the extension first (ie. in the extensions' directory) or an on-wiki page as script source (ie. MediaWiki:Centralnotice.js)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/wikipedia/en/centralnotice.js hasn't been used in years. The entire root level centralnotice directory was deleted from trunk a long time ago. How do we remove it from upload.wikimedia.org?
There is a centralnotice.js file within the CentralNotice extension, which is served from ResourceLoader.
I'm going to go ahead and resolve this as fixed. If anyone wants to open a separate bug about deleting the old http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/ directory, that would be fine by me.
(In reply to comment #9)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/wikipedia/en/centralnotice.js hasn't
been used in years. The entire root level centralnotice directory was deleted
from trunk a long time ago. How do we remove it from upload.wikimedia.org?
This stuff lives in /mnt/upload6/centralnotice . If it's really not used any more, you can just shell into fenari and kill it. However, there seems to be ton of things in there, lots of different centralnotice.js files in a 2-level (wiki/language, it seems) directory structure and images here and there.
Yeah, those are all the generated javascript files for all the wikis as of the last time they were generated (probably about 2 years ago). All of that stuff is dynamic now. I imagine the images were for various banners. Now we host the images on meta and commons, which is less secure, but more practical.
I've archived the contents of /mnt/upload6/centralnotice.
I can't, however, remove the directory as I do not have sufficient permissions to remove everything (many things are owned by apache and in the apache group and I don't have r00t). Roan, can you take care of that?
(In reply to comment #14)
I've archived the contents of /mnt/upload6/centralnotice.
I can't, however, remove the directory as I do not have sufficient permissions
to remove everything (many things are owned by apache and in the apache group
and I don't have r00t). Roan, can you take care of that?
I'll delete it once you're awake and on IRC, so we can restore it quickly if anything bad happens.