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Migration and upgrade

Hi, sorry for the downtime! The wiki crashed again, so I took the last backup I had and have put it onto an upgraded mediawiki on a new host. Hopefully no more stability issues!

There are a few known issues:

  • The backup is only from October last year :( All new users, pages and edits since then are lost, at least for now. Working on this.
  • The RumbleStats extension uses deprecated and removed functions in Mediawiki, and the changes I made to at least have it not crash the wiki don't result in it working. If anybody wants to help I'm happy to give server credentials.
  • No twitter in the tools sidebar
  • Images on the old wiki still broken
  • The URLs now have index.php in them, and my attempts at fixing this so far break everything. I'm probably missing some Apache setup somewhere.

On the other hand:

  • Upgraded mediawiki
  • Emails working again
  • New Robocode-specific captcha, so I've re-opened signups.

Anyway, welcome back, and happy Robocoding!

    Skilgannon (talk)‎12:04, 19 April 2020

    Fixed:

    • Images on the old wiki
    • Short URLs again, same as before, so the rumble clients should be happy.

    Still missing:

      Skilgannon (talk)‎21:06, 19 April 2020

      Fixed:

      • Images (they were broken in the short URL migration)

      New:

        Skilgannon (talk)‎10:24, 20 April 2020

        Fixed:

        • http redirects to https, except for if you have action=raw in the URL, for roborumble compatibility
        • This fixes if you log in with https, it would redirect you to http and then not allow your login token for security reasons.
          Skilgannon (talk)‎17:32, 20 April 2020
           
           

          Surely I would like to help with RumbleStats.

          Btw we still have the data since Oct. last year on the original host right? Can we merge database so we don’t lose changes from here.

            Xor (talk)‎00:34, 20 April 2020

            Hopefully the old data can be recovered. But it might take some time.

              Skilgannon (talk)‎10:20, 20 April 2020
               

              Btw literumble seems to crash, right after I started 8 roborumble instances...

              It used to work OK, but now it returns http 500.

                Xor (talk)‎02:45, 20 April 2020

                Literumble shouldn't be affected, it doesn't know that the robowiki exists except for the link on the landing page. I'll take a look.

                  Skilgannon (talk)‎10:21, 20 April 2020
                   

                  Hi. Thanks a lot for resurrecting the wiki from ashes. Must be hell of the work.

                  I have git-wiki backup, last dated by Mon Mar 16 18:17:51 2020 +0000, with the commit message "Raven 1.1.1 -> 1.1.2" by Dsekercioglu. It is not exactly Mediawiki format, but it has pages in the file format: like normal pages, discussion, and attached files.

                  I will be more than happy to feed it back to wiki.

                  Speaking of the backups. I have raised this question before but maybe we got strong enough message this time. We need some ways to replicate the mirrors of the wiki. My study of mediawiki a couple years ago showed that it has no built in mechanism for incremental backups. I was able to download a GB xml dump of wiki, but I did not date to do it more than once a year. So full dump is stale.

                  Is there a way to have a shadow "read only" wiki?

                    Beaming (talk)‎15:13, 20 April 2020
                     
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