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A firewall is blocking sharing between Windows and the containers – Docker

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I recently encountered this error while trying to run one of my docker setups. I have encountered errors like this before and it has always ended up being related to docker and sharing my drives to the linux VM that actually runs my containers. Checking the shared drives menu of the docker UI everything seemed … Read more

Customizing Wikibase config in the docker-compose example

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2019 Edit: If you want to use a Dockerfile and custom image take a look a here.

Just over a month ago I setup the Wikibase registry project on Wikimedia Cloud VPS using the docker-compose example provided by Wikibase docker images. The Wikibase registry is the first Wikibase install that I control that uses the Wikibase docker images, so I’ll be using it as an example showing how the docker images can be manipulated to configure MediaWiki, Wikibase, and load custom extensions and skins.

The example docker-compose file at the time of writing this post can be found at https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-docker/blob/5919016eac16c5f0aefc448240fdf6a09bb56bec/docker-compose.yml

Since the last blog post new wikibase image tags have been created (the ‘bundle’ tags) that include some extensions you might want to enable, as well a quickstatements image for the quickstatements service used on Wikidata written by Magnus Manske.

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Wikibase of Wikibases

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The Wikibase registry was one of the outcomes of the first in a series of Federated wikibase workshops organised in partnership with the European research council.

The aim of the registry is to act as a central point for details of public Wikibase installs hosted around the web. Data held about the installs currently includes the URL for the home page, Query frontend URL and SPARQL API endpoint URL (if a query service exists).

During the workshop an initial data set was added, and this can be easily seen using the timeline view of the query service and a query that is explained within this post.

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WMDE: CI, Deploys & Config changes intro

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This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to the land of Wikimedia CI, MediaWiki deployment and config changes. This briefly covers: Jenkins & Zuul CI Config Beta Cluster SWAT The MediaWiki train Monitoring mediawiki-config The Docker & Kubernetes future?

From 0 to Kubernetes cluster with Ingress on custom VMs

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While working on a new Mediawiki project, and trying to setup a Kubernetes cluster on Wikimedia Cloud VPS to run it on, I hit a couple of snags. These were mainly to do with ingress into the cluster through a single static IP address and some sort of load balancer, which is usually provided by your cloud provider. I faffed around with various NodePort things, custom load balancer setups and ingress configurations before finally getting to a solution that worked for me using ingress and a traefik load balancer.

Below you’ll find my walk through, which works on Wikimedia Cloud VPS. Cloud VPS is an openstack powered public cloud solution. The walkthrough should also work for any other VPS host or a bare metal setup with few or no alterations.

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Cambridge Analytica, #DeleteFacebook, and adding EXIF data back to your photos

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2019 Update: This script now exists with an easy to use GUI

Back in 2016 I wrote a short hacky script for taking HTML from facebook data downloads and adding any data possible back to the image files that also came with the download. I created this as I wanted to grab all of my photos from Facebook and be able to upload them to Google Photos and have Google automatically slot them into the correct place in the timeline. Recent news articles about Cambridge Analytica and harvesting of Facebook data have lead to many people deciding the leave the platform, so I decided to check back with my previous script and see if it still worked, and make it a little easier to use.

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Wikibase docker images

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This is a belated post about the Wikibase docker images that I recently created for the Wikidata 5th birthday. You can find the various images on docker hub and matching Dockerfiles on github. These images combined allow you to quickly create docker containers for Wikibase backed by MySQL and with a SPARQL query service running alongside updating live from the Wikibase install.

A setup was demoed at the first Wikidatacon event in Berlin on the 29th of October 2017 and can be seen at roughly 41:10 in the demo of presents video which can be seen below.

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