SeaPIG Wiki Administration

There's not much to administering a wiki, but what there is goes here.

See AdminGroup for the list of wiki administrators.

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Changelog

2008/10/12 Migrated to Ubuntu 8.04, upgraded to Moin 1.6.4 --BradeyHonsinger

Ubuntu 8.04 still has MoinMoin 1.5.8, so removed packaged version and installed from source:

  1. Remove/reinstall MoinMoin: 

    • # aptitude remove python-moinmoin moinmoin-common
# cd /usr/local/src
# wget http://static.moinmo.in/files/moin-1.6.4.tar.gz
# tar xvzf moin-1.6.4.tar.gz 
# cd moin-1.6.4/
# python setup.py install --record=install.log

  2. Migrate MoinMoin:

    • Run migration script (no error messages): 
      # sudo -u www-data \
    moin --config-dir=/home/seapig/seapig.org/wiki --wiki-url=seapig.org \
        migration data

Also installed Mailman, migrated list files, and configured Postfix:

  1. Install Mailman, copy all files from 7.10 install: 
    • # aptitude install mailman
# cp -Rp /mnt/710/var/lib/mailman/* /var/lib/mailman/
# /etc/init.d/mailman start

    The -p flag for the cp is important--otherwise, the queue dir ends up owned by root instead of list, and list can't write to it.

  2. Install Postfix, copy config files from 7.10 install (files to copy from here and error messages): 

    • # cp /mnt/710/etc/postfix/{main.cf,transport} /etc/postfix
# cp /mnt/710/etc/mailname /etc
# postmap -v /etc/postfix/transport
  3. Reconfigured Postfix to make sure everything was configured and working (doing this ran newaliases, etc.). Accepted default answers for "Internet Site" 
    • # dpkg-reconfigure postfix

Problems

Update: Now everything seems to be working. Not sure what the problem was before, but should undo some of the steps listed above that didn't seem to make a difference (esp. MoinMoin tree ownership). -- BradeyHonsinger 2008-10-14 01:24:18

2008/03/05 Removed most spam pages --BradeyHonsinger

Removed most spam pages following steps below. List of deleted pages is here:

Send mail to the list if you see something I missed or shouldn't have deleted.

  1. Remove empty directories (created when antispam prevented saving page or user cancelled) [3382 pages]: 
    • # find /home/seapig/seapig.org/wiki/data/pages -maxdepth 1 -type d -empty -print0 | \
    xargs --null rm -rf
  2. Remove pages with Asian characters in the title [164 pages]: 
    • # ls | grep '(e[0-9]' | xargs rm -rf
  3. Remove pages with no upper-case characters in the title (can't be wiki words) [77 pages]: 
    • # ls | grep -v [A-Z] | xargs rm -rf
  4. Remove pages with '+' in the title [51 pages]: 
    • # ls | grep '(2b)' | xargs rm -rf
  5. Go through remaining pages by hand, and delete spam (and other unused) pages [16 pages]

2008/03/04 Upgraded to Moin 1.6.1 --BradeyHonsinger

Really wanted "textcha" capabilities to stop spam. Ubuntu doesn't have packages for 1.6.1 yet, so uninstalled 1.5.7 from aptitude and installed 1.6.1 from source.

/!\ Note that markup has changed in 1.6–see HelpOnLinking (especially the “If you used Moin before...” section at the bottom), HelpOnMacros

  1. Remove/reinstall: 
    • # aptitude remove python-moinmoin moinmoin-common
# cd /usr/local/src
# wget http://static.moinmo.in/files/moin-1.6.1.tar.gz
# tar xvzf moin-1.6.1.tar.gz 
# cd moin-1.6.1/
# python setup.py install --record=install.log
  2. Fix pre-migration problems:

    • Update /home/seapig/seapig.org/wiki/Wikiconfig.py to from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig, as instructed by migration script (must be done before migration script will run)

    • Create /home/seapig/seapig.org/wiki/data/meta after a Google search on "KeyError: 'data_format_revision'" (apparently didn't get created before as part of migration process, and must be done before migration script will run). 

      • # sudo -u www-data cat > /home/seapig/seapig.org/wiki/data/meta
data_format_revision: 01050700
^D

    • Update from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy to from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy (apparently that changed at some point too, and must be fixed before migration script will run)

  3. Migrate:
    • Run migration script once to start migration 
      # sudo -u www-data moin --config-dir=/home/seapig/seapig.org/wiki --wiki-url=seapig.org migration data

    • Copy /home/seapig/seapig.org/wiki/data/rename1.txt to rename2.txt as instructed by migration script

    • Re-run migration script

    • Copy over new moin.cgi, update path to wikiconfig.py in it

  4. Enable textchas in wikiconfig.py: 

    •     # members of this don't get textchas
    #textchas_disabled_group = u"AdminGroup" 
    textchas = {
        'en': {
            u"What city is Seapig in?": ur"seattle",
            u"What state is Seapig in?": ur"(washington|wash|wa)",
            u"What is your favorite color?": ur"(red|green|blue|yellow|purple|orange|white|black|arrgh)",
            u"Who is the BFDL?": ur"(guido|guido van rossum|gvr)"
            # ...
        },
        # you can add more languages if you like
    }

2008/03/04 Fixed up config on new server --BradeyHonsinger

2007/12/23 Moved list to new server --BradeyHonsinger

Installed and configured according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mailman.

Confirmed that list was functional--logged in via Mailman web page to view settings, than posted test message to list.

2007/12/22 Moved server to Ubuntu 7.10 --MikeOrr and BrianDorsey

Migrated to Moin 1.5.7.

2007/03/08 Updated Moin after vulnerability warning, switched to prefork MPM --BradeyHonsinger

Upgraded to python-moinmoin 1.5.2-1ubuntu2. See http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-423-1.

Moved from worker MPM to prefork MPM, in an attempt to avoid invoking OOM killer on linode box.

2007/01/30 Moved to new server

Moved wiki to MikeOrr's server (aka sluggo.scrapping.cc). Upgraded to Moin 1.5.2 in the process (no need to run migration scripts--data format stayed the same). Need to re-setup backup job at some point. Should probably re-evaluate wikiconfig.py to see if there are new features we want to take advantage of, too.

2006/03/21 Setup wiki backup

Finally created a backup procedure for the wiki--a tarball is created weekly and placed in an FTP-accessible directory on the webserver. Email is sent to admins to notify them that it's there. Didn't want to email it out like the list backup, since it's ~7 MB.

2005/02/08 Setup anti-spam, AdminGroup

Enabled Moin spam filter (see AntiSpamGlobalSolution), setup ACLs and AdminGroup to enable access to LocalBadContent.

2005/02/06 DNS cutover

DNS now points to new wiki, spam starts

2005/02/02 Moved to Construx server, upgraded to Moin 1.3.3

Migration steps:

Gory details:

Removing system pages:

Migrating to new format

Cleanup

WikiAdmin (last edited 2008-10-14 01:24:19 by BradeyHonsinger)