Last modified: 2012-08-27 15:04:18 UTC
Ryan Kaldari reports that InstantCommons does not seem to work on beta. Might be related to the overrides in filebackend-wmflabs.php
The feature is at : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons Enabled via the following parameter: $wgUseInstantCommons = true; The feature is not enabled in our MediaWiki configuration nor it is enabled on production: $ mwscript eval.php --wiki=commonswiki > var_dump( $wgUseInstantCommons ); bool(false) $ mwscript eval.php --wiki=enwiki > var_dump( $wgUseInstantCommons ); bool(false) I am not sure what is meant for nor the relation with the filebackend-wmflabs.php file.
Apparently, $wgUseInstantCommons is just a wrapper for various $wgForeignFileRepos settings. InstantCommons is working on production, but isn't working on beta-labs, so I suspect the overrides to $wgForeignFileRepos in filebackend-wmflabs.php are responsible.
InstantCommons on labs works for me. It does not use files from commons.wikimedia.org however, but commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org since we want to use labs to test the integration between the two. i.e. media/subtitle support in TMH http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/User:J/subtitles
Ah, good to know. In that case we need to copy over the image database to labs. Who could perform such a task?
a full copy would be to large to copy over. getting a subset might be an option.
A good start would be the images transcluded in the 800 articles on http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page. That would at least give us some material to work with.
Marking bug fixed since Jan confirmed its works (by using commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org as a backend)
