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Restore/salvage Wikimedia DC's Etherpad installation
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Wikimedia DC had an etherpad at notes.wikimediadc.org. It hasn't really worked in some while, and honestly I am not sure what the point of having our own etherpad is when WMF's is better (we also have hackpad, at wikimediadc.hackpad.com, for those who are so inclined).

In the meantime, there is data stored in there and it would be nice to rescue. Let's bring the Etherpad online and then figure out what to do with it. Or instead we could dump the contents of the database and find new homes for the notes stored there, if that is feasible.

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Harej created this task.Feb 10 2015, 10:03 PM
Harej raised the priority of this task from to Medium.
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Harej added subscribers: Harej, Legoktm, Emufarmers, Isarra.
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Harej added a subtask: T89078: Grant root access on Wikimedia DC server to legoktm, Isarra, and Emufarmers.Feb 10 2015, 10:17 PM
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Harej added a subscriber: jeremyb.Mar 25 2015, 7:54 AM

It turns out the Etherpad server has been off the for the past year or so. @jeremyb, could you turn it back on?

Harej closed subtask T89078: Grant root access on Wikimedia DC server to legoktm, Isarra, and Emufarmers as Resolved.May 3 2015, 12:43 AM
Harej reassigned this task from Harej to Legoktm.Jun 23 2015, 5:53 AM
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Legoktm added a comment.Oct 19 2015, 12:08 AM
root@eve:~# service etherpad-lite start
Starting Etherpad Lite... 
done
start-stop-daemon: unable to open pidfile '/var/run/etherpad/etherpad-lite.pid' for writing (No such file or directory)
Harej added a comment.Oct 20 2015, 6:06 AM

A pidfile? A process ID file? Is one necessary?

Harej moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the Wikimedia-DC board.Oct 20 2015, 6:14 AM
Emufarmers added a comment.Oct 20 2015, 11:32 AM
root@eve:/var/run# mkdir /var/run/etherpad/
root@eve:/var/run# service etherpad-lite start
Starting Etherpad Lite...
done

It seems to work now.

Legoktm removed Legoktm as the assignee of this task.Oct 24 2015, 12:39 AM
akosiaris closed this task as Resolved.Jun 24 2017, 12:29 AM
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