M3P:To Do list

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This is a list of things to do for admins/sysops only. Editing on this page is locked for general users, but recommendations for things to add to the list are welcome via the To Do list Talk Page.

  • Items marked URGENT need immediate attention. (Ideally, we should avoid having more than 2-3 items marked this way.)
  • Items marked ongoing do not need immediate attention but someone is working on them regularly.
  • Any items that don't have an 'urgent' or 'ongoing' tag are desirable actions that need attention whenever possible.
  • Items marked DONE have been completed and action point/s will need to be archived soon.


Inaugural Symposium

Audio from Symposium (DONE)

I'm working on this. --Toni Sant (talk) 07:34, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Individual files with audio recordings from the symposium have now been created and are all set to be uploaded into the wiki. --Toni Sant (talk) 17:02, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Images from Symposium (ongoing)

Michael Bugeja has several images and Winston De Giorgio has uploaded his to Picasa. These need to be uploaded to the M3P wiki.

Uploading Files (ongoing)

Uploading Images (DONE)

File uploading works, but right now I've limited allowed to gif, jpg and png just to see how things go. I've blocked executables and things described as 'application/octet-stream' in MIME type. These settings can be tuned as appropriate and have been extracted out of standard LocalSettings. A quick check of this file will let you see where this new info is stored (should be safe in event of upgrades). Stephensd 14:03, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

I'll give it a whirl in the next 24 hours or so. Thanks! --Toni Sant (talk) 17:42, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
All seems to be working fine with image uploads. (Robert) Longo has uploaded an old image of Mirage and I've uploaded the Għanja tal-Poplu logo, which I've also inserted as a thumbnail on the appropriate page. --Toni Sant (talk) 15:13, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Uploading Audio (URGENT)

I'm about to finish editing the audio files from the inaugural symposium today and I think it's probably better if we actually upload these through the wiki rather than directly to a folder on the server via FTP. Darren, I think all that needs doing is to add the MIME-types for audio files just like you did for the images. If you don't mind, I'd rather you do it, so there's only one of us at a time working directly on the settings files. Thanks. --Toni Sant (talk) 15:17, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

OK, let me know specific video formats so I can identify correct MIME and extensions and I'll get to it. --Stephensd 14:52, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
So far I only have MP3s. So perhaps we could just start with that to keep things simple. Thanks. --Toni Sant (talk) 15:43, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
The following are now enabled: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, avi, mpg, mpeg, mov, m4v, ogg, wmv, mp3, mp4, ogg. Some MIME type and file extension checking will take place. You should also notice that upload from external URL is now also switched on. We can see how this one floats... Stephensd 16:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
The 4MB file size limit is going to be a problem with audio and video files. The 8 files I have from the Inaugural Symposium range from 5MB to 21MB each. I just tried uploading the smallest one and the upload quite at one point and simply refreshed the page without an error message that I could see. Is there an easy way to adjust the maximum file size allowed for certain types, or shall we just raise the limit to 25MB on everything for now? --Toni Sant (talk) 17:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Stephensd 17:24, 1 November 2010 (UTC) the sizing is universal for all download, but also depends on what our server's PHP upload limits are. I'll check and see if I can alter them: addendum. hosting config had max uploads set at 2M. This is now upped to 32M Stephensd 17:24, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I tried upload a 5MB mp3 file again after the max uploads set was upped to 32MB but the upload appeared to time out and without any error message I was simply reverted to a blank form. --Toni Sant (talk) 17:51, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
I've upped the stream default timeout from 60 to 300 secs to see if this will help. I've also made a couple of smaller under hood php tweaks to reflect the fact that this is a production server. We shouldn't be getting warning messages of the sort that showed up on the index page till this morning. Stephensd 12:59, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
this is now getting silly. Lots of PHP tuning plus some work trying to get some useful error info out of the server is resulting in nothing. At one stage I was getting the upload returning 500 errors, but with no indication why. And the server error logs giving no clues. Now back to Toni's blank screen problem. It works for uploading PDFs, for example (which I tested), but looks like a size problem for very large files (say 10M+) Stephensd 17:14, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I managed to upload an mp3 file that's 11MB. Here's the file page: File:M3p-launch-toni-sant.mp3 but for some reason it has uploaded to a folder called images here: Media:M3p-launch-toni-sant.mp3 - it may be just a matter of setting an appropriate upload folder/location. Still, it's good to see that the timeout on uploads seems to be working fine. Once you tell me that all is sorted I'll upload more. --Toni Sant (talk) 21:16, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
The upload functionality points to a single upload location for everything. And this was set as /media/images when the focus was just on getting image data up there. Because mediawiki sorts things into 'buckets' inside there for more efficient searching, inter alia, I don't want to change the file path now as I will break the items that are currently in there. The directory name might just be one of those legacy bugaboos we'll have to live with now, as it doesn't really affect the user experience. As an aside, I wonder if my travails (of quite a lot of) today were caused by patchy network performance on campus rather than server config. Stephensd 23:14, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Mmm... I think there are still few enough uploaded files that we can fix file path. There's only one file that was uploaded by someone who is not DS or TS. I'd rather we do this now than live with it in perpetuity as a legacy bugaboo...as much as I like the word bugaboo! As for the patchy network performance, you may very well be right. --Toni Sant (talk) 13:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Ok, upload settings changed. files go into /media/wiki now. The old file space is moved to /media/legacy/wiki so that anything uploaded is not destroyed. Anything in the uploads would now have to be re-upped though. But, ss you say, there are few enough images for this not to be serious, I think Stephensd 23:29, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Great, thanks! Now, I've upped the stream default timeout from 300 to 450 600 750 900 secs because I've been unable to upload files that are larger than 19MB...but still to no avail. You simply get a blank page if the upload hits the timeout. I looked into this a little and found some interesting info on the MediaWiki manual at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Blank_page#You_see_a_Blank_Page but when I adjusted the "memory_limit = 32M" from the default 20M on LocalSettings.php it still didn't work. Not sure what to do next, so I've stopped. We clearly need to find a solution for this because there may be other files this big in the future that we want to handle through the wiki, plus I still have 3 audio files from the inaugural symposium to upload. --Toni Sant (talk) 18:19, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Embedding Media Files (URGENT)

Once we've sorted out the file uploading issue, we'll need to see how to embed a play button or something like that through one of the media handling extensions, unless MediaWiki has a default function for that sort of thing. I've tried to look into it, but I may be looking in the wrong places because I haven't managed to find anything about this, other than the fact that wikipedia seems to use a template to handle audio files: there's Listen and the simpler looking Audio. --Toni Sant (talk) 21:16, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Events Calendar (URGENT)

Discussion at M3P_talk:Current_events#Using_an_extension_for_an_Events_Calendar indicates what Tony Grimaud is suggesting we need to do. Next action is probably to look into installing the appropriate extension.

  • adding a test event:

Stephensd 15:56, 29 October 2010 (UTC) : update 17.57 install sort of working but having some teething issues. For this reason have disbled extension till Monday to work on further. Toni S is aware of these issues

  • Enabling Events is still breaking things quite horrendously and am not quite sure why yet, as everything seems properly configured. I guess I'm missing something tht will, in retrospect, seem blindingly obvious Stephensd 17:22, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


Gadgets

Darren Stephens is working on this. See Main Talk Page

Maltese Characters

Possibly can be incorporated as a gadget but see also Talk:Main_Page#Special_characters

Look and Feel (ongoing)

See Talk:Main_Page#Look_and_feel

Maintenance Templates (ongoing)

See Talk:Main_Page#Maintenance

I'm planning to work on this soon. --Toni Sant (talk) 07:34, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Help Section (ongoing)

Tony Grimaud is working on this. (October 2010)

Contact Page & Emails

See Talk:Main_Page#Contact_page_and_emails

URLs & Permalinks (ongoing)

See Talk:Main_Page#URLs_and_Permalinks

  • This is awkward (see Case Sensitivity), and also needs to be considered with the wikipedia sensitvity rules, which are:
    • Case insensitive first char. toni sant=Toni sant (search is also case insensitive, except for the way to Go button deals with caps in middle of words, apparently)
    • At all other points, case sensitvity applies. so DOG != dog (the former may be an acronym, for example) and Toni Sant != Toni sant

Weird, huh? There is a hacky solution available, but I really don't want to go there...

I'll report back on performance in the coming days. Meanwhile I've downgraded this from urgent to ongoing. --Toni Sant (talk) 17:44, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

M3P Inaugural Conference (May/June 2011)

Toni Sant, Alex Grech, Michael Bugeja, and Tony Grimaud to discuss (October 2010). First meeting tentatively set for mid-November?

Eventual gathering in Scarborough in early February 2011.

Interim events

Old-timers' series: working title M3P jiltaqa' ma'...

- This is being coordinated by Tony Grimaud (inc. idea for possible radio programme?)

- Target date April 2011?

Networking Workshop/s

- May/June conference must include networking workshop/s similar to the one we had at the St James Cavalier Studio during the launch. This sort of thing is essential for all major M3P events.

- We should also consider specific workshops, such as one for events submissions with specific stakeholders like Lito.

Publication of Proceedings

To check with CCP/UoM/JISC for support. (October 2011)

- This is being coordinated by Toni Sant.

Call for Papers/Presentations

CFP needs to be issued no later than January 2011.

See also