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== Orain Site Update #1 ==
This can be called the official first monthly site update hence the #1 so; let's get on to what has happened during the month of July!
; Technical
During July, Orain added two new servers to the cluster, there were two incidents and one long term fix.
* [[techwiki:Prod5|prod5]] was added as an additional webserver which we plan to use to help distribute the load of web requests and as a fail-over so if [[techwiki:Prod4|prod4]] fails, we can continue to provide you all with your wikis.
* [[techwiki:Prod6|prod6]] was added and is still in the setting up stage. It is planned to take over the role of [[techwiki:prod1|prod1]], a server we are planning to decommission eventually.
* We had a small security issue regarding ElasticSearch on our [[techwiki:Prod3|prod3]] server. No unauthorized access to the data stored on the server was seen and the server has since been made more secure. As a security precaution, ElasticSearch was removed from the cluster and wikis were defaulted back to MediaWiki search.
* From July 30th to August 1st; there were issues with out going MediaWiki mail. This has since been resolved however incoming mail to all @orain.org addresses are still not functioning as of August 3rd.
* A long-term issue with images was resolved on July 15th.
; New Features
* A wikicreator group was added to [[m:|metawiki]] so community users can handle new wiki requests which is one step into delegating new roles and responsibilities to the community. Wikicreators are chosen by system administrators using their discretion.
* [[m:User:Cyberpower678|Cyberpower678]]'s tool was given access to some database tables on public wikis. As a result [https://tools.wmflabs.org/supercount the UserAnalysis tool] works on all public Orain wikis.
* [[Special:UrlShortener|UrlShortener]] was enabled on all Orain wikis to allow shorter URLs to be used. Currently URLs follow the form of 'https://$database.orain.org/o/$id'. If wikis want to use a shorten URL of their choice; please make a request to the system administrators.
* Private wikis may now (on request) use image authorization for their wikis. This means images are made web-inaccessible as to preserve the security of images uploads while still being accessed by users with 'read' access to your wiki.
* Orain now allows the use of OAuth. Please see [[mw:Extension:OAuth|the OAuth page on MediaWiki]] for more details. OAuth requests can be made on any wiki and will be approved by a system administrator on metawiki.
On behalf of the Orain staff, [[m:User:John|John]] 17:35, 3 August 2014 (BST)
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