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Flickr-Foundation / flickypedia

A tool to copy CC-licensed images from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons
https://www.flickr.org/tools/flickypedia/
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Set up some credentials with the beta cluster for uploading images #4

Open alexwlchan opened 11 months ago

alexwlchan commented 11 months ago

There is a testing environment for Wikimedia Commons, as described in Commons:Guide to batch uploading:

If you want to test uploading and safely experiment with using tools or new templates in a safe environment, you can set up an account on the beta cluster. This is a mirror of Wikimedia Commons where if things go wrong you will not cause any disruption to the live environment. See http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ and this explanation.

This would be very useful for our purposes!

alexwlchan commented 11 months ago

Unfortunately we can't use this right now, because uploading files to Beta Commons has been broken since December last year. :sob:

When I use the upload code that I know works against Live Commons, I get a persistent error Could not acquire locks on server rdb1. This matches a bug report filed in July: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340908

I can't fully follow that discussion, but it sounds like somebody applied a configuration change in December 2022 that meant two bits of the system stopped being able to talk to each other – and nobody who can do sysadmin stuff on the beta cluster has fixed it yet.

When that Phabricator ticket is resolved, we should revisit the idea of using the beta cluster.