At the request of Amir Ladsgroup and Amir Aharoni, a RTL wiki with both ULS and VE in place for beta would be useful. VE is working now in beta labs as of very recently https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49963
dkwiki was suggested.
See email from Amir Ladsgroup for more details.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T67005 Wikimedia Hackathon Zürich 2014 | |||
| Resolved | hashar | T52335 Create an en_rtl wiki in beta labs |
first of all thank you for filing this bug but I think we don't need a dv wiki (because it has to be a global but English wiki) I described more how to make it possible in E-mail.
My request is please make a wiki in "others" section in site matrix
http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix#mw-sitematrix-others. I think "test-rtl" is a good name but If you have other suggestions I would be happy to hear
make default language dv, change l10n settings of dv (MessagesDv.php) and change essential parts to English equals or give me the access and I'll do it.
If we can move database of wikitest-rtl to the new wiki, that would be great
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitest-rtl/w/index.php
I think it's possible via mysql dumps (but correct me if I'm wrong) in order to avoid wasting people edits.
Thanks
So we can get a 'rtllabswiki' configured that would be available at rtllabs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org. The 'labs' prefix would be to make it obvious this is only for the beta cluster and not for production.
Then we need all the MediaWiki config to be made in operations/mediawiki-config.git (adding an entry in all-labs.dblist , editing the wmf-config/*-labs.php files). And finally the Jenkins jobs that update the database need to be updated.
That's very great but can you add file MessagesDv.php to the gerrit, too? beside the LocalSettings.php
I have no real idea about what is needed. I guess the idea is to create a new wiki and tweak its configuration setting to match whatever it is expected to handle.
There is doc to create a new wiki at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Deployment-prep/Add_a_wiki
Then one will have to fill in configuration parameters in operations/mediawiki-config.git.
I found something that might helps you:
http://hexmode.com/2011/04/mediawiki-needs-rtl-developers/
What do you think? can you set the language en-rtl?
I really doesn't understand what this page is telling
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Deployment-prep/Add_a_wiki
I know how to make it if it's a simple wiki (I did it in wikitest-rtl) but in the server...
Change 132396 had a related patch set uploaded by Hashar:
beta: create a RTL english wiki
mwdeploy@deployment-bastion:~$ mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=aawiki en wikipedia en_rtlwiki en-rtl.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org
Creating database en_rtlwiki for en.wikipedia (English)
Initialising tables
Writing main page to Main_Page
Writing sidebar donate link to MediaWiki:Sitesupport-url
Adding to dblists
PHP Notice: Undefined variable: wmfRealm in /mnt/srv/scap-stage-dir/wmf-config/db-labs.php on line 5
PHP Notice: Undefined variable: wgLBFactoryConf in /mnt/srv/scap-stage-dir/refresh-dblist on line 105
content index...
Fetching Elasticsearch version...1.1.0...ok
Scanning available plugins...
elasticsearch-analysis-hebrew, analysis-icu, experimental highlighter, swift-repository, head whatson
Infering index identifier...en_rtlwiki_content_first
Picking analyzer...default
Creating index...ok
Validating analyzers...ok
Validating mappings...
Validating mapping for page type...different...corrected
Validating aliases...
Validating content alias...alias is free...corrected Validating all alias...alias not already assigned to this index...corrected
Updating tracking indexes...done
general index...
Fetching Elasticsearch version...1.1.0...ok
Scanning available plugins...
elasticsearch-analysis-hebrew, analysis-icu, experimental highlighter, swift-repository, head whatson
Infering index identifier...en_rtlwiki_general_first
Picking analyzer...default
Creating index...ok
Validating analyzers...ok
Validating mappings...
Validating mapping for page type...different...corrected
Validating aliases...
Validating general alias...alias is free...corrected Validating all alias...alias not already assigned to this index...corrected
Updating tracking indexes...done
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 7 at Fri May 9 12:24:00 2014
Script ended. You still have to:
mwdeploy@deployment-bastion:~$
Change 132400 had a related patch set uploaded by Hashar:
beta: automatically update en_rtlwiki database
So the localization cache for en-rtl was not being generated because that language is not listed in Names.php
Sam figured out we can inject new language names with $wgExtraLanguageNames : https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132415/
That made MediaWiki to generate the language code.
The new wiki is http://en-rtl.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ \O/