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Bug 57343 - Re-do Wikimedia's server admin log implementation
Re-do Wikimedia's server admin log implementation
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/S...
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Reported: 2013-11-21 08:18 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified: 2014-01-14 16:41 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Description MZMcBride 2013-11-21 08:18:22 UTC
Wikimedia's server admin log at <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_Admin_Log> is goofy:

* it's disproportionately expensive to store new entries given the full wiki page system currently in place;

* each entry doesn't contain a complete timestamp (years are missing); and

* the log can't be effectively sorted or filtered due to its lack of structure (plus manual pagination, ick).

We can probably just set up a custom MediaWiki log format and use Special:Log? In 2008, Trevor wrote [[mw:Extension:LogEntry]]. I'm not sure how much of this extension works toward the potential goal of using Special:Log, but perhaps it's a helpful start for anyone who wants to work on this bug.
Comment 1 MZMcBride 2013-11-21 08:25:33 UTC
There's apparently also [[mw:Extension:ServerAdminLog]] (via Timo & Ori).

I'm not sure what Wikimedia Labs uses. I believe it has a bunch of server admin logs, hmm.
Comment 2 Ryan Lane 2014-01-14 02:53:44 UTC
It would be relatively easy to just log events into logstash and to tag them. Getting the log history could be a canned search. It would be searchable, which is a massive win over what we have now.

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