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WMHU/WMSE Testing[edit]
Posted @ 00:31, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
Two chapters (Wikimedia's Hungary and Sweden) ran tests today, hungary ran their first systems test of the year and there was a rerun of the WMSE test from last week to attempt to solve technical issue with their landing pages.
HU: Smooth no problems. The test was successful: The payment processing worked really well, the chapter was able to receive donations and banners/LPs were displayed without issues.
SE:Chapter's contact made some tweaks on the server prior to today and we were hoping to have an easy sail. By 11:15am we were still having the same issues as last week. Increased sever memory (doubled it to 1.5GB) and increased the number of threads and it seems to have solved the issue. The test was a success after these changes, with donations being monitored by WMSE.
Jseddon (WMF)
Production Coodinator
WMUK/WMSE Testing Updates[edit]
Posted @ 23:48, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
For our inaugral update, we ran our first Chapter fundraising tests (UK and SE). These were initial set up tests to ensure the payment processing system and metrics were working successfully, before venturing into more complex testings (such as banner and landing page tests).
UK: The test was successful: The payment processing worked flawlessly, the chapter was able to follow as donations came in and banners were displayed without any problems. Follow up: The 'tracking reference code' was not passed on to the Chapter. WMF will follow up on this matter.
SE: Partial success: Pages on the WMSE server were loading extremely slowly or timing out, although there were no visible problems with the load. There were a few visitors on their end but originally no donations. The problem couldn't be identified within the first 30 mins, so the campaign was disabled. One donation, originating with some delay from the banner, was received. The problem is still not identified, the server was without any load during the test and should be able to handle >100 requests per second (tested with the apache benchmarking tool 'ab' on non-static landing page over https).
Jseddon (WMF)
Production Coodinator