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Scholar's Avenue compiles TnPedia to help people prepare for placements. Scholar's Avenue website is down and it looks and wayback machine has also not achieved the pages. See fb post and archive.org link. Web search reveals some copies like this:
2011: https://mobileelectron.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/tnpedia.pdf

DC might have some copies for other years.

It will be helpful to get everything on metakgp. /cc @nuwandavek

We can use the survey extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Survey) to prompt readers of the wiki to give suggestion about the content.

Currently the visual is not available on "Metakgp" namespace on the wiki. Fix that.

CDC has interviewed a bunch of people have compiled their placement advice here. We should combine this with https://wiki.metakgp.org/w/Placement_Interview_Experiences. I'm following up with Ankur about this.

We can setup a minimal notes upload portal which will link the notes to its specific page. We should do this before people graduate this year.

A user got the following error while creating an account on metakgp:

 [87d3c91c] 2015-08-02 13:41:11: Fatal exception of type MWException

Reference: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#snapshots

We are anyway maintaining one snapshot, we might as well keep that up to date. As the API is a REST API, figuring it out should be easy.

The script will look at the status of the wiki and a couple of random (pre-defined) pages and if all of them are returning 200 responses, then it will snapshot the present wiki and delete the old snapshot.

People with accounts but unverified emails are not able to edit wiki. I seen this twice with different people, both of them created accounts on wiki and encounter "unknown error" when they tried to save an edit made using visual editor, the issue was fixed when they verified their emails.

@Schrodinger1926 reported that he encountered the following error while trying to save an edit, but the error was fixed after he activated his email. @icyflame can you look into this?

Problem: the wiki only handles one request at a time, which means a slow request could block other users, and leads to a bad experience.

How to reproduce: Make an expensive request (like saving a large page), and try to load a different page simultaneously. The second request won't complete until the first one does.

I'm pretty sure this isn't the standard behaviour, and is possibly related to faulty configuration at our end.

Currently, the phone numbers are rendered as so:

(03222) 282632
1 800 425 6633
9735551023

I would like to propose the following format for phone numbers:

1. Leading 0 be replaced by (+91) in all numbers. (0 dialing often leads to problems when calling from local / non-local numbers, etc. A +91 dialing is automatically resolved, and is easier to use.)
2. A - between the STD code and the number in case of fixed lines.
3. Mobile numbers to be written as 123-456-4567.

In cases where the above is insufficient, follow the national conventions for writing telephone numbers

Arguments in favor

1. Mobile numbers are easier to read off as three digit groups instead of a ten digit group, which is often unsettling.
2. When dialing from inside KGP, the long leading STD code can be dropped, and this would be easier to do if there were a clear distinction between the STD code and the number.
3. 0 dialing issues and confusion regarding this can be avoided by simply using +91 as the prefix.

Sample phone numbers:

(+91)-3222-282152
(+91)-123-456-7895
1-800-425-6633

cc @vivekiitkgp @hargup

An example dyk can be "Did you know ... There was a black out for two hours in IIT KGP for Reach Out Week in April 2014"

DYK can have a lot of things like "dyk ... Vinod Gupta funded the Rajiv Gandhi Law School" or "dyk ... ".

I think this will attract a lot of attention to the wiki.

While creating account it gives wrong or missing captcha error but in the account creation page there is no captcha

Party done at https://wiki.metakgp.org/w/Metakgp:How_to_create_voters_list

History:

I ran a command to uninstall OpenVPN from the wiki server. The command failed, and then the shell kept returning segfault messages on any command.

$ sudo apt-get remove openvpn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpkcs11-helper1 linux-headers-3.13.0-52 linux-headers-3.13.0-52-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-77 linux-headers-3.13.0-77-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-79 linux-headers-3.13.0-79-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-83 linux-headers-3.13.0-83-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-85 linux-headers-3.13.0-85-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-86 linux-headers-3.13.0-86-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-87 linux-headers-3.13.0-87-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-88 linux-headers-3.13.0-88-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-91 linux-headers-3.13.0-91-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-92 linux-headers-3.13.0-92-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-93 linux-headers-3.13.0-93-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-95 linux-headers-3.13.0-95-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-52-generic linux-image-3.13.0-77-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-79-generic linux-image-3.13.0-83-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-85-generic linux-image-3.13.0-86-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-87-generic linux-image-3.13.0-88-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-91-generic linux-image-3.13.0-92-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-93-generic linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-52-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-77-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-79-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-83-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-85-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-86-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-87-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-88-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-91-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-92-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-93-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-95-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  openvpn
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 241 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,008 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 452859 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openvpn (2.3.2-7ubuntu3.1) ...
 * Stopping virtual private network daemon(s)...                                          *   Stopping VPN 'server'                                                        [ OK ]
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.9) ...
/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnuma.so.1 is not a symbolic link

E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke 'if [ -x /usr/bin/rkhunter ] && grep -qiE '^APT_AUTOGEN=.?(true|yes)' /etc/default/rkhunter; then /usr/share/rkhunter/scripts/rkhupd.sh; fi'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

We've tried rebooting the server, but it remains inaccessible through ssh. Accessing it through the DO console shows a kernel panic message, indicating the boot is unsuccessful. I've opened a ticket with DO to mount a recovery ISO so we can examine the filesystem. In the meantime, @DefCon-007 will attempt to set up a read-only instance of the wiki from backups to mitigate the outage.

• Heroku is used for deployment
• Commands like rake db:migrate can be run detached using heroku run:detached rake db:migrate. I believe this is worth mentioning in the wiki.