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Feb 13 2024

Jeff_G created T357403: Server side upload for Jeff G..
Feb 13 2024, 12:30 PM · Server-side-upload-request, video2commons, Commons, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Feb 5 2024

Jeff_G created T356630: Internal error on Wikidata user talk page.
Feb 5 2024, 11:35 AM · Growth-Team, StructuredDiscussions, Wikidata

Jan 29 2024

Jeff_G added a comment to T355433: Problem with uploading large files (2 GB).

I was able to download the file as F 1-74-0217.PDF. In case one of us gets it to upload, what filename would you like and how would you like the file description page to read?

As I said in the other thread, this is not the only file I need to upload. But how did you manage to upload that file? Using Upload Wizard?

Jan 29 2024, 1:10 PM · SRE-swift-storage, UploadWizard

Jan 24 2024

Jeff_G added a comment to T355433: Problem with uploading large files (2 GB).

Right, those are all too far ago to still in the recent logs. Today's, however, I can find, and swift has done what was asked of it - that file was uploaded and subsequently deleted (before further requests got 404, which you'd expect after a successful delete).

Jan 24 2024, 1:23 PM · SRE-swift-storage, UploadWizard
Jeff_G added a comment to T355433: Problem with uploading large files (2 GB).

@MatthewVernon I just used Upload Wizard to upload the file. I did not see neither attempt to delete the file after upload. After progressbar reached the end, it just spit out the abovementioned error.

You can try to upload the file yourself: https://fex.net/s/ckmb8ov - the same file or any other PDF bigger than 1.5 GB.

Jan 24 2024, 1:17 PM · SRE-swift-storage, UploadWizard
Jeff_G added a comment to T355433: Problem with uploading large files (2 GB).

I think the simplest way to correct this error is to lower the maximum upload limit to 1 GB for validation.

Jan 24 2024, 1:16 PM · SRE-swift-storage, UploadWizard

Dec 31 2023

Jeff_G created T354134: ArchiverBot Stuck.
Dec 31 2023, 2:19 PM · Tools

Dec 30 2023

Jeff_G reopened T345285: Thumbnails for particular files are not displaying on Commons, instead returning Error 429 as "Open".

The thumbnails at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_Health_Symptom_Checker_conceptual_overview.png are still broken. "via cp1111 cp1111, Varnish XID 376415587
Upstream caches: cp1111 int
Error: 500, Internal Server Error at Sat, 30 Dec 2023 11:49:56 GMT"

Dec 30 2023, 11:52 AM · Thumbor, Commons

Dec 19 2023

Jeff_G awarded T353659: V2C should be integrated into MW a 100 token.
Dec 19 2023, 1:31 PM · video2commons, Commons

Dec 14 2023

Jeff_G added a comment to T289365: video2commons stashfailed.

Another user has gotten "FAILED: stashfailed: Internal error: Server failed to store temporary file." - see edit https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Help_desk&diff=prev&oldid=830516577 .

Dec 14 2023, 3:11 PM · video2commons

Nov 14 2023

Jeff_G added a comment to T351194: GUC unreachable.

An hour later, it is responding.

Nov 14 2023, 12:42 PM · Tool-Global-user-contributions
Jeff_G created T351194: GUC unreachable.
Nov 14 2023, 11:41 AM · Tool-Global-user-contributions

Aug 30 2023

Jeff_G updated the task description for T345285: Thumbnails for particular files are not displaying on Commons, instead returning Error 429.
Aug 30 2023, 6:18 PM · Thumbor, Commons
Jeff_G created T345285: Thumbnails for particular files are not displaying on Commons, instead returning Error 429.
Aug 30 2023, 6:16 PM · Thumbor, Commons

Jun 10 2023

Jeff_G added a comment to T298672: "Anonymous" users cannot undo changes related to structured data due to AbuseFilter.

See also the edits logged at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=2605%3ABA00%3A4138%3A445%3A1974%3ACACD%3AE09D%3AA640&offset=&limit=50 and https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=Haansn08 .

Jun 10 2023, 9:03 AM · Wikidata, Commons, AbuseFilter, SDC General

Apr 22 2023

Jeff_G added a comment to T298672: "Anonymous" users cannot undo changes related to structured data due to AbuseFilter.

See also the edits logged at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=91.120.252.226 .

Apr 22 2023, 4:01 AM · Wikidata, Commons, AbuseFilter, SDC General

Apr 17 2023

Jeff_G added a comment to T334808: Edit filter variable contains wrong data for structured data edits on Commons.

The full URLs for those example links are: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/9710528 , https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/9711367 , and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/9711938 . See also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Abuse_filter#Report_by_Lieven , which will be archived to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Abuse_filter/Archive_2023/04#Report_by_Lieven .

Apr 17 2023, 6:43 AM · StructuredDataOnCommons, AbuseFilter

Jan 17 2023

Jeff_G added a comment to T327196: 2023-01-17 Wikimedia full site outage.

Affects Commons, too. :(

Jan 17 2023, 6:45 PM · Wikimedia-production-error, Wikimedia-Incident

Jan 15 2023

Jeff_G added a comment to T327003: Tool-nfp Source column does not wrap well or have a working link and wiki abbreviations are duplicated.

Wrapping should be fixable but making the link actually work (or any parsing of the wikitext to HTML) is quite hard without making the system vulnerable to Stored XSS attacks. I could use action=parse in the commons API but that wouldn't be useful if there is a template in source. It's a bit tricky to fix this.

Jan 15 2023, 11:48 AM · Tool-nfp

Jan 14 2023

Jeff_G renamed T327003: Tool-nfp Source column does not wrap well or have a working link and wiki abbreviations are duplicated from Tool-nfp Source column does not wrap well or have a working link to Tool-nfp Source column does not wrap well or have a working link and wiki abbreviations are duplicated.
Jan 14 2023, 9:36 AM · Tool-nfp
Jeff_G created T327003: Tool-nfp Source column does not wrap well or have a working link and wiki abbreviations are duplicated.
Jan 14 2023, 9:32 AM · Tool-nfp

Nov 8 2022

Jeff_G updated subscribers of T189108: Increase the « Post‐expand include size » process up to 2.5 MB.

This amounts to a request to increase the default $wgMaxArticleSize of 2048 (kilobytes) on production wikis. It was authored Feb 21 2006, 7:55 PM in rSVN13070 by timstarling (now @tstarling). Much has changed in user environments in the 16 years since then.

Nov 8 2022, 2:58 PM · Performance Issue, MediaWiki-Templates, MediaWiki-General

Nov 1 2022

Jeff_G created T322117: require(): Failed opening required '/srv/mediawiki/php-1.40.0-wmf.8/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php').
Nov 1 2022, 9:58 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, Wikimedia-production-error

Oct 24 2022

Jeff_G added a comment to T321277: DiscussionTools replies are not marked as read.

It happened again with edit https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Help_desk&curid=523680&diff=698609678&oldid=698605975 00:49 24 October 2022 EDT -0400 (04:49 24 October 2022 UTC). Note also that there are three other edits to the Commons Help desk that falsely show as "updated since your last visit" too.

T321277 HD.jpg (768×1 px, 321 KB)

Oct 24 2022, 4:58 AM · DiscussionTools

Oct 23 2022

Jeff_G added a comment to T321277: DiscussionTools replies are not marked as read.

Here is how that 05:20, 23 October 2022 EDT -0400 (09:20, 23 October 2022 UTC) edit looks on my watchlist with grouping.

T321277 wl 2.jpg (768×1 px, 277 KB)

Oct 23 2022, 10:02 AM · DiscussionTools
Jeff_G added a comment to T321277: DiscussionTools replies are not marked as read.

On the third hand, it did not happen with my next edit https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=698405102&oldid=698403797 .

Oct 23 2022, 9:53 AM · DiscussionTools
Jeff_G added a comment to T321277: DiscussionTools replies are not marked as read.

Does this happen every time when replying with the reply tool, or just once or twice? And did it ever happen when not using the reply tool?

We couldn't reproduce it, and I noticed that there were recently a few new reports of pages not being marked as read on the watchlist when expected (see the last few comments on T218511). Most likely this is not related to the reply tool, and just a part of that general problem.

Oct 23 2022, 9:42 AM · DiscussionTools

Oct 20 2022

Jeff_G created T321277: DiscussionTools replies are not marked as read.
Oct 20 2022, 9:59 AM · DiscussionTools

Oct 17 2022

Jeff_G added a comment to T320920: test.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org security certificate expired in the last day.

Same for en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org.

Oct 17 2022, 7:56 AM · Beta-Cluster-Infrastructure
Jeff_G created T320920: test.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org security certificate expired in the last day.
Oct 17 2022, 7:52 AM · Beta-Cluster-Infrastructure

Sep 17 2022

Jeff_G created T318025: Unwikified thanks prompt.
Sep 17 2022, 9:37 AM · TestMe, Growth-Team, Thanks

Aug 29 2022

Jeff_G added a comment to T244567: Some files cannot be deleted "Error deleting file: An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-multiwrite". " (due to missing physical file for old image entries).

How can file revisions go missing? Don't we have backups? Why can't we delete a file, even though one or more file revisions is missing? What can we do to prevent file revisions from going missing in the future, and to compensate for their missing status in the present?

Aug 29 2022, 10:29 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.25; 2023-09-05), Structured-Data-Backlog, Structured Data Engineering, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management, Wikimedia-production-error, SRE-swift-storage, MediaWiki-Page-deletion

Jul 28 2022

Jeff_G updated the task description for T314015: HTTP 404 error for specific TIF thumbnail on Commons.
Jul 28 2022, 6:00 AM · Thumbor Migration, Commons, Thumbor
Jeff_G created T314015: HTTP 404 error for specific TIF thumbnail on Commons.
Jul 28 2022, 5:53 AM · Thumbor Migration, Commons, Thumbor

May 18 2022

Jeff_G added a comment to T308663: LogicException: This ParserOutput contains no text!.

On-wiki error report: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-AjaxQuickDelete.js/auto-errors&diff=prev&oldid=657064030
On-wiki discussion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-AjaxQuickDelete.js#Renaming
This has been autoreported 11 times so far on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-AjaxQuickDelete.js/auto-errors , starting "Wed, 18 May 2022 08:35:19 GMT".

May 18 2022, 1:37 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.13; 2022-05-23), Platform Engineering, CommonsMetadata, MediaWiki-Parser, Wikimedia-production-error

Apr 22 2022

Jeff_G awarded T306301: For all uploaded webm files with AV1 codec no thumb images are generated at all a Haypence token.
Apr 22 2022, 11:44 AM · MediaWiki-File-management, Commons

Nov 22 2021

Jeff_G created T296185: Commons BETA: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK.
Nov 22 2021, 12:19 PM · Beta-Cluster-Infrastructure, Commons

Aug 19 2021

Jeff_G added a comment to T288346: Enable non-file page creation logs on Wikimedia Commons.

[...]
As such, perhaps it would make sense to codify that in MediaWiki natively that for NS_FILE we don't emit this event and instead assume it to be an upload (manually created pages there are very rare and usually an accident, and for catching/reviewing that we have recent changes already).

Would it be possible to only log filespace creations not associated with uploads? From a user's perspective, this wouldn't be too unexpected, as Special:Newpages already does that in the file namespace.

That would work for me. The consensus has now been archived to c:Commons:Village pump/Archive/2021/07#Page creation logs.

Aug 19 2021, 3:20 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, Commons

Aug 6 2021

Jeff_G created T288346: Enable non-file page creation logs on Wikimedia Commons.
Aug 6 2021, 1:06 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, Commons

Aug 5 2021

Jeff_G added a comment to T12331: Introduce page creation log.

Should we create a separate task for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons?

Aug 5 2021, 11:00 PM · User-notice-archive, TechCom-RFC (TechCom-RFC-Closed), MediaWiki-Logevents, MediaWiki-Page-editing

Jun 8 2021

Jeff_G created T284525: AWB Updater v2.3.0.0: Retrieving current version...FAILED.
Jun 8 2021, 4:02 AM · Essential-Work, AutoWikiBrowser

Jun 2 2021

Jeff_G added a comment to T190988: Recently more broken files (premature end of file) that were cross-wiki uploaded to Commons by several users.

Another victim, this time at 6MB: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Age_of_sail_.jpg

Jun 2 2021, 7:55 PM · MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.6; 2019-05-21), Multimedia, SRE-swift-storage, Commons

Apr 6 2021

Jeff_G added a comment to T279407: FAILED: stashfailed: Internal error: Server failed to publish temporary file..

The third upload attempt (a retry with extra comment) completed.

Apr 6 2021, 4:31 PM · SRE-swift-storage, MediaWiki-Uploading
Jeff_G added a comment to T279407: FAILED: stashfailed: Internal error: Server failed to publish temporary file..

The status of the checkbox appears to be dimmed only after the attempted upload starts.
I sometimes get sequences like the following, which is also concerning (indicating a stuck status for upwards of 30s):
00995: 11/86> in progress Upload: 100%
01110: 11/86> upload is stuck
01111: 11/86> Connection seems to be okay. Waiting one more time...
01115: 11/86> upload is stuck
01116: 11/86> Connection seems to be okay. Waiting one more time...
01120: 11/86> upload is stuck
01121: 11/86> Connection seems to be okay. Waiting one more time...
01125: 11/86> Chunk uploaded

Apr 6 2021, 11:43 AM · SRE-swift-storage, MediaWiki-Uploading
Jeff_G added a comment to T279407: FAILED: stashfailed: Internal error: Server failed to publish temporary file..

The second attempt failed with stash 188ub70n674k.lpxppz.122116.webm and the following (trying again with the original formulation):
05171: 86/86> Server error 504 after uploading chunk:
Response: upstream request timeout
05171: 86/86> upload in progress Upload: 100%
05235: FAILED: internal_api_error_DBQueryError: [95e6982b-cd9d-4b4c-a124-ce7a1ca45c8b] Caught exception of type Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError

Apr 6 2021, 11:24 AM · SRE-swift-storage, MediaWiki-Uploading
Jeff_G added a comment to T279407: FAILED: stashfailed: Internal error: Server failed to publish temporary file..

I tried to publish the file in my UploadStash anyway using a community tool, it said to try back tomorrow. I also started another upload of the same file with "use stash and async (recommended for large videos and photos)" unchecked, and I will check progress after I sleep.

Apr 6 2021, 6:32 AM · SRE-swift-storage, MediaWiki-Uploading
Jeff_G created T279407: FAILED: stashfailed: Internal error: Server failed to publish temporary file..
Apr 6 2021, 6:10 AM · SRE-swift-storage, MediaWiki-Uploading

Mar 27 2021

Jeff_G added a comment to T189108: Increase the « Post‐expand include size » process up to 2.5 MB.

There are also 1,101 pages in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:User_talk_pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded .

Mar 27 2021, 2:53 AM · Performance Issue, MediaWiki-Templates, MediaWiki-General

Jan 28 2021

Jeff_G added a comment to T189108: Increase the « Post‐expand include size » process up to 2.5 MB.

See also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Deletion_requests_issue . That section was archived to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive_83#Deletion_requests_issue without further comment. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded stands at 289 pages and rising.

Jan 28 2021, 4:15 PM · Performance Issue, MediaWiki-Templates, MediaWiki-General

Jan 12 2021

Jeff_G added a comment to T49488: Display more information about the existing transcodes.

See also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Vandalism/Archive_14#TRANSCODE_STATUS .

Jan 12 2021, 1:56 PM · TimedMediaHandler-Transcode

Dec 6 2020

Jeff_G awarded T255981: Persistant error 500 getting category members a Mountain of Wealth token.
Dec 6 2020, 2:00 PM · Platform Team Workboards (Clinic Duty Team), Upstream, Commons, Pywikibot

Nov 27 2020

Jeff_G added a comment to T190988: Recently more broken files (premature end of file) that were cross-wiki uploaded to Commons by several users.

Another victim: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jilemnick%C3%BD_h%C5%99bitov_Jind%C5%99ich_Ambro%C5%BE_n%C3%A1hrobek.jpg

Nov 27 2020, 2:42 PM · MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.6; 2019-05-21), Multimedia, SRE-swift-storage, Commons

Nov 19 2020

Jeff_G added a comment to T267668: Some recent Commons uploads not available on other wikis (2020-11).

This appears to be happening again with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles_Euskaraz.jpg - please see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Help_desk#An_uploaded_image_can't_be_seen_at_any_given_wiki for details.

Nov 19 2020, 12:56 PM · MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.16; 2020-11-03), Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia-production-error, SRE, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons

Oct 15 2020

Jeff_G awarded T265560: Text on UploadWizard's "Describe" page is too narrow (due to .mwe-upwiz-data defining "width: calc(-132.5%)") a Haypence token.
Oct 15 2020, 11:41 AM · MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.13; 2020-10-12), Structured-Data-Backlog, Structured Data Engineering, Regression, UploadWizard

Oct 12 2020

Jeff_G added a comment to T264529: Large file upload request for 0399CHRO.

No tokens found. :(

Oct 12 2020, 2:16 PM · User-Urbanecm, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Commons, Internet-Archive

Aug 3 2020

Dalba awarded T245440: "Error: 429, Too Many Requests" for some PNG thumbnails of [[c:File:Ambigram_New_York_Rich_Man.png]] a Doubloon token.
Aug 3 2020, 3:31 PM · Thumbor, Commons

Jul 7 2020

Jeff_G renamed T257330: Tools show Puffin Browser Pro 308 Permanent Redirect from Fengtools on Toolforge show 308 Permanent Redirect to Tools show Puffin Browser Pro 308 Permanent Redirect.
Jul 7 2020, 4:09 PM · Tools
Jeff_G created T257332: reFill 404.
Jul 7 2020, 3:52 PM · User-bd808, Tool-refill
Jeff_G added a comment to T257330: Tools show Puffin Browser Pro 308 Permanent Redirect.

Strangely, this is happening with my (proxied) Puffin Browser Pro, but not with Chrome, on the same iPad with the same connection.

Jul 7 2020, 3:50 PM · Tools
Jeff_G added a comment to T222445: Disable FileExporter on all Arabic projects per Commons community request.

@Meno25 @Helmoony @Jeff_G @Slowking4 it would be really great if we got some feedback on the above questions. We currently try to figure out what additional data would be helpful so that the communities can better deal with situations like this. Thanks! :-)

Jul 7 2020, 3:30 PM · WMDE-TechWish, Community-consensus-needed, Commons, Move-Files-To-Commons
Jeff_G created T257330: Tools show Puffin Browser Pro 308 Permanent Redirect.
Jul 7 2020, 3:17 PM · Tools

Apr 9 2020

Jeff_G created T249786: wikisense unusable due to "504 Gateway Time-out".
Apr 9 2020, 1:43 AM · Tools

Mar 14 2020

Jeff_G added a comment to T247655: Add ability to designate a default thumbnail on videos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

This could be extended to all presentations of video thumbnails. See also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Help_desk#Changing_default_thumbnail_for_a_video.

Mar 14 2020, 3:05 PM · TimedMediaHandler, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons

Mar 1 2020

Jeff_G added a comment to T245440: "Error: 429, Too Many Requests" for some PNG thumbnails of [[c:File:Ambigram_New_York_Rich_Man.png]].

The discussion of the display of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambigram_New_York_Rich_Man.png was archived automatically to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Help_desk/Archive/2020/02#Thumbnail_doesn%27t_display and now I get the following:
Request from 45.33.139.173 via cp1086 frontend, Varnish XID 520356410
Upstream caches: cp1086 int
Error: 500, Internal Server Error at Sun, 01 Mar 2020 14:32:22 GMT

Mar 1 2020, 2:40 PM · Thumbor, Commons

Feb 17 2020

Jeff_G created T245440: "Error: 429, Too Many Requests" for some PNG thumbnails of [[c:File:Ambigram_New_York_Rich_Man.png]].
Feb 17 2020, 2:25 PM · Thumbor, Commons

Sep 11 2019

Strainu awarded T214230: Temporary switch crosswiki uploads off across all wikis a Dislike token.
Sep 11 2019, 11:13 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, Crosswiki, Commons

Jul 22 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T220828: archivebot.py: don't reorder template parameters.

Note to @Jeff_G: you might still see the bug on Commons, but that's expected. It might take some time before I update ArchiverBot@Commons to reflect the bug fix. (Maybe next weekend.)

Jul 22 2019, 3:23 PM · Pywikibot, Pywikibot-archivebot.py
Jeff_G added a comment to T12331: Introduce page creation log.

This is now live on all the wikis except Wikidata and Commons.

Jul 22 2019, 3:12 PM · User-notice-archive, TechCom-RFC (TechCom-RFC-Closed), MediaWiki-Logevents, MediaWiki-Page-editing

Jul 14 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T220828: archivebot.py: don't reorder template parameters.

However, as of this diff 07:59, 14 July 2019 (UTC) it is still happening.

Jul 14 2019, 8:11 AM · Pywikibot, Pywikibot-archivebot.py

Jul 9 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T227420: Define new protection level 'templateeditor' and the associated right and usergroup on Commons.

@Jeff_G that's because the template is still fully protected. You can only edit pages that are template protected. See the current list.

Jul 9 2019, 7:20 PM · User-Urbanecm, User-DannyS712, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Commons
Jeff_G reopened T227420: Define new protection level 'templateeditor' and the associated right and usergroup on Commons as "Open".
Jul 9 2019, 4:32 PM · User-Urbanecm, User-DannyS712, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Commons
Jeff_G added a comment to T227420: Define new protection level 'templateeditor' and the associated right and usergroup on Commons.

Deployed.

Jul 9 2019, 4:31 PM · User-Urbanecm, User-DannyS712, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Commons

Jul 5 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T226307: 600 seconds timeout in XTools global contributions tool seems to be in error.

We should perhaps show a different error message when this happens.

Yes, please.

Jul 5 2019, 12:53 AM · XTools
Jeff_G added a comment to T220828: archivebot.py: don't reorder template parameters.

As of this diff 07:48, 3 July 2019 (UTC), it is thankfully no longer shuffling parameters on my user talk page on Commons.

Jul 5 2019, 12:36 AM · Pywikibot, Pywikibot-archivebot.py

Jun 22 2019

Jeff_G created T226307: 600 seconds timeout in XTools global contributions tool seems to be in error.
Jun 22 2019, 12:46 PM · XTools

Jun 18 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T218511: After opening a diff, entry on Special:Watchlist sometimes stays unread (bold).

It is still happening for me today. In the attached screenshot, I am "User:Jeff G." and my edit of 18:41 (UTC-4, EDT, 22:41 UTC with screenshot taken around 23:00 UTC) should have marked all the previous edits to c:Commons:Help desk as read, but it didn't.

T218511 example.jpg (768×1 px, 346 KB)

Jun 18 2019, 11:14 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, User-kostajh, Regression, User-notice, MediaWiki-Watchlist

May 3 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T222445: Disable FileExporter on all Arabic projects per Commons community request.

The problematic files included https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Bareg5.jpg , https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Toyota_Bus-Train_01.jpg , and https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Toyota_Bus-Train_02.jpg ; all had to be deleted.

May 3 2019, 12:34 PM · WMDE-TechWish, Community-consensus-needed, Commons, Move-Files-To-Commons

Apr 21 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T221458: Special:Log on commons -- entire web request took longer than 60 seconds and timed out.

A workaround is to start with [[Special:Log/block]] or https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/block instead.

Apr 21 2019, 5:12 PM · mariadb-optimizer-bug, Platform Team Workboards (Done with CPT), MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.3; 2019-04-30), Performance Issue, MediaWiki-Logevents, MediaWiki-libs-Rdbms, DBA, SRE, Wikimedia-production-error

Apr 2 2019

Jeff_G updated subscribers of T219866: globalusagecount tool has No webservice.
Apr 2 2019, 1:00 PM · Tools
Jeff_G added a comment to T219866: globalusagecount tool has No webservice.

The same goes for https://tools.wmflabs.org/geocommons/ .

Apr 2 2019, 12:59 PM · Tools
Jeff_G created T219866: globalusagecount tool has No webservice.
Apr 2 2019, 12:10 PM · Tools

Mar 28 2019

Jeff_G created T219497: Special:Watchlist "Live updates" should update status to read (unbold) upon reading, rather than wait for a new edit..
Mar 28 2019, 12:46 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Mar 25 2019

Jeff_G updated the task description for T192744: PNG thumbnail looks significantly blurrier than JPG thumbnail.
Mar 25 2019, 12:41 PM · Thumbor, Multimedia, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management

Mar 23 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T218511: After opening a diff, entry on Special:Watchlist sometimes stays unread (bold).

Thanks, when might that change go live?

Should be everywhere by now.

Mar 23 2019, 4:43 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, User-kostajh, Regression, User-notice, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Mar 22 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T218511: After opening a diff, entry on Special:Watchlist sometimes stays unread (bold).

I found out in the past couple of days that when I unwatch and then watch a stubborn bolded page, that resolves the symptom for the current revision of that page better (with a higher success rate indistinguishable from 100%) than refreshing and purging. Of course, that is just a workaround and it doesn't scale.

Mar 22 2019, 4:23 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, User-kostajh, Regression, User-notice, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Mar 20 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T218511: After opening a diff, entry on Special:Watchlist sometimes stays unread (bold).
Mar 20 2019, 2:13 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, User-kostajh, Regression, User-notice, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Mar 18 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T218511: After opening a diff, entry on Special:Watchlist sometimes stays unread (bold).

This is also happening on Commons, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Technical#Pages_visited_via_diff_remain_bolded .

Mar 18 2019, 11:59 AM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, User-kostajh, Regression, User-notice, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Mar 12 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T214230: Temporary switch crosswiki uploads off across all wikis.

See also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals/Archive/2016/08#Rfc:_Should_we_request_a_configuration_change_to_shut_down_cross-wiki_uploads?.

Mar 12 2019, 4:35 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, Crosswiki, Commons
Jeff_G created T218067: XTools appears to be 404-compliant..
Mar 12 2019, 3:41 AM · XTools

Mar 3 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T190988: Recently more broken files (premature end of file) that were cross-wiki uploaded to Commons by several users.

Another example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miguel_Baptista_Benedict.jpg

Mar 3 2019, 8:19 PM · MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.6; 2019-05-21), Multimedia, SRE-swift-storage, Commons

Feb 15 2019

Jeff_G updated subscribers of T213409: Improve/Dispose AbuseFilter checks on old text revisions.
Feb 15 2019, 5:04 PM · Move-Files-To-Commons
Jeff_G added a comment to T213409: Improve/Dispose AbuseFilter checks on old text revisions.

Can this tool please be configured to not import under 10 bytes file description page revisions, or at least to pad the ones under 10 bytes with spaces or the 10 byte string "Padded4AF4"? Alternatively, can it be configured to back off importation of revisions which fail any AF and import the rest (unless the latest revision fails)?

Feb 15 2019, 1:54 PM · Move-Files-To-Commons

Feb 12 2019

Jeff_G awarded T213571: Ignore babel box the user has set to knowing at level 0 on Commons (and so have different behaviour to Wikidata) a Like token.
Feb 12 2019, 9:21 PM · Structured-Data-Backlog, Community-consensus-needed, WikibaseMediaInfo, Wikidata, Structured Data Engineering, MediaWiki-extensions-Babel

Jan 31 2019

Jeff_G added a comment to T192744: PNG thumbnail looks significantly blurrier than JPG thumbnail.

As for non-WMF MediaWiki deployments, applying sharpening to PNG thumbnails is easily achieved by a one-liner modification to the MediaWiki code. Someone who needs this could go the extra mile and make it based on a config variable and it would get merged into MediaWiki itself. Just like someone recently made JPG quality configurable.

Jan 31 2019, 2:56 AM · Thumbor, Multimedia, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management
Restricted Application added a project to T39960: provide thumb option to do sharpening on scaled images on a case by case basis: Commons.
Jan 31 2019, 2:44 AM · Commons, Multimedia, MediaWiki-File-management

Jan 19 2019

Jeff_G created T214230: Temporary switch crosswiki uploads off across all wikis.
Jan 19 2019, 8:36 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, Crosswiki, Commons
Jeff_G added a comment to T190988: Recently more broken files (premature end of file) that were cross-wiki uploaded to Commons by several users.

The problem is still continuing... I propose to switch cross-wiki uploads off

That's certainly the most sensible thing to do. We don't need this unmaintained piece of software to cause havoc on our projects.

Jan 19 2019, 8:27 AM · MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.6; 2019-05-21), Multimedia, SRE-swift-storage, Commons

Dec 29 2018

Jeff_G added a comment to T35186: Provide a well-performing API to rotate an image.

Sometimes, the rotation sought is not around the center point, but around the central vertical or horizontal axis (sometimes called mirroring, flipping, or flopping). This should be doable losslessly. See also c:MediaWiki talk:Gadget-RotateLink.js#Mirroring as Rotation.

Dec 29 2018, 5:21 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-TheresNoTime, Platform Engineering, Multimedia, Contributors-Team, MediaWiki-Uploading, Commons, MediaWiki-Action-API

Dec 20 2018

Jeff_G added a comment to T190988: Recently more broken files (premature end of file) that were cross-wiki uploaded to Commons by several users.

More examples: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Huntington_Bridge_Looking_Downstream.jpg and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Huntington_Looking_Downstream.jpg

Dec 20 2018, 4:52 AM · MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.6; 2019-05-21), Multimedia, SRE-swift-storage, Commons

Nov 24 2018

Jeff_G awarded T100062: Do not put "verified" template on UploadWizard Flicker uploads if user isn't trusted a Mountain of Wealth token.
Nov 24 2018, 12:47 PM · MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.16; 2019-02-05), Technical-Debt, Notice, UploadWizard, Multimedia, Commons