Please check the wiki and let me know if you can access it without issues.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

I've been getting reports recently from people, that the LabVIEW Wiki is offline sometimes. I've never experienced this myself so I'm curious if people on here have noticed anything. Typically, the issue manifests with a 503 Service Unavailable message. I will investigate further this weekend when I have time, but just wanted to get some general idea.

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

9 hours ago, Michael Aivaliotis said:

I've been getting reports recently from people, that the LabVIEW Wiki is offline sometimes. I've never experienced this myself so I'm curious if people on here have noticed anything. Typically, the issue manifests with a 503 Service Unavailable message. I will investigate further this weekend when I have time, but just wanted to get some general idea.

Seems to work fine from here today and is very snappy too. Wish the NI site was even remotely as fast. 😀

[Antoine Chalons]

same here, I don't check the wiki every day, on average I go 2-3 times a month, I never had issues.

[Bryan]

Just checked and it seems responsive for me.  I'm not on it as much as I am on LAVA though.

[ensegre]

No pb for me as well, neither today nor past times I consulted it. But all together I'm on it quite seldom.

[LogMAN]

Yes this happens sometimes. It typically fixes itself after reloading a few times.

To be fair, it never happened when actively browsing or editing pages. For me it mostly happens in the morning when I access it for the first time. And it manifests as a DNS lookup error.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

The LabVIEW Wiki has received an update. Hopefully, it responds with fewer errors.

[LogMAN]

Happy New Year!

This is great! It certainly feels more responsive and modern.

File deletion now also works, which means that we can finally get rid of old inappropriate files

The TreeAndMenu extension is missing, however, which breaks certain pages:

• LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit - LabVIEW Wiki
• Events - LabVIEW Wiki

[Michael Aivaliotis]

3 hours ago, LogMAN said:

The TreeAndMenu extension is missing, however, which breaks certain pages

Unfortunately, this extension had to be dropped. It's broken in MediaWiki 1.43. I'm investigating a fix.

[LogMAN]

Thanks. The extension has not been updated since 2021. It is, however, listed as "stable".

There is another issue, the list of recent changes is not updating: https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

The most recent change listed is from December 27th, 2024.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

4 hours ago, LogMAN said:

The most recent change listed is from December 27th, 2024.

I fixed it. I had to disable an extension that was breaking that page for some reason.

4 hours ago, LogMAN said:

The extension has not been updated since 2021. It is, however, listed as "stable".

Several others have reported it broken on the support page.

[LogMAN]

12 hours ago, Michael Aivaliotis said:

Several others have reported it broken on the support page.

I did a quick test in a private MediaWiki instance and got it to work using the fix available on GitHub: Switch jquery.cookie to mediawiki.cookie by paladox · Pull Request #1 · debtcompliance/TreeAndMenu · GitHub

[Michael Aivaliotis]

41 minutes ago, LogMAN said:

I did a quick test in a private MediaWiki instance and got it to work using the fix available on GitHub

Thanks! That worked.

[crossrulz]

I just noticed the LabVIEW Wiki YouTube account is now gone. What has happened to the videos that were there? My VIWeek presentation (Proper Serial Communications) was one of those handled by this account.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

It looks like the reorg of the LabVIEW Wiki domain caused the channel to go away. I'm investigating this to see if it can be fixed.

[LogMAN]

There are quite a few pages affected. Find below a complete list of the ones found with a quick script. Affected conferences are:

• Americas CLA Summit 2019
• GLA Summit 2020
• NIWeek 2019
• NIWeek 2020

If the channel cannot be restored, it would be great to have the videos for upload to a new channel that is not linked to the domain if anyone still got them. Just ping me and I'll upload them if you don't want to put them on your own channel. Otherwise, feel free to update the pages with the new video IDs.

• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Architecting_for_Your_Customers
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Automating_IDE_Setup
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Building_Distributed_Systems_with_LabVIEW_and_ZeroMQ
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Complex_AF_-_Avoid_the_Pitfalls_of_Bad_Asynchronous_Programming
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Composed_Event_Logger_-_How_integrating_a_SOLID_Event_Logger_into_your_Applications_Reduces_Time_Spent_Debugging_Problems
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Decoupling_LabVIEW_and_Continuous_Integration
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Design_for_Research_(A_Case_Study_of_Building_a_Research_Metal_3D_Printer)
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Encapsulating_and_Reusing_your_UI_Code
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Expert_Panel:_Overcoming_Performance_Challenges
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Future_Proofing_Begins_With_Your_People_-_Lessons_Learned_from_My_Life_on_the_Outside
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Futureproofing_Software_with_Clean_Architecture
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/G_Interfaces
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/GCentral:_Removing_Barriers_to_a_Collaborative_Community
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Help!_I'm_out_of_letters_in_Quick_Drop!
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/High-Throughput_Video_Processing_to_Score_Heart_Rate_Responses_to_Xenobiotics_in_Wild-type_Embryonic_Zebrafish
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/How_YOU_can_design_amazing_looking_UIs
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Imperative_to_Functional_Programming
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Introduction_to_the_LabVIEW_Wiki
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Item_Manager_Framework_-_Future_Proofing_with_Dependency_Injection
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Keynote:_How_to_Leave_a_Legacy_Without_Leaving_Legacy_Software
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Keynote:_Practical_Methods_for_Software_Engineering_Idealism
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/LabVIEW_Performance_Tuning_Twenty_Years_Later
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Making_Modern_UIs_with_LabVIEW
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/NI_Presents:_Reusable_Add-on_Libraries
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/NI_Presents:_WebVIs
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/One_Library_To_Rule_Them_All
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Party_in_Front,_Business_in_Back:_Programming_The_Reverse_Mullet
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/PPLs_and_a_Better_Office_Experience
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Quick!_Drop_Your_VI_Execution_Time!
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Re-sizable_UI_and_Pane_Relief
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Scripting_in_LabVIEW_NXG
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Scripting_to_Save_Time
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Separation_Anxiety:_Designing_for_Change
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Sharing_LabVIEW_Code:_What_tools_are_good_for_what%3f
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Test_Driven_Development_in_Actor_Framework
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/The_Little_Things_in_LabVIEW_2020
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/The_Stacked_Sequence_is_Dead._Long_Live_the_Stacked_Sequence
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/UI/UX_Considerations_when_there_is_No_Keyboard_or_Mouse
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Unit_Testing_at_Mock_Speed
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/What's_New_in_GPM
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Why_You_Should_(Not%3f)_Write_Your_Own_Framework
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/Americas_CLA_Summit_2019/Zero_to_RF_in_420_Seconds
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/GLA_Summit_2020/TestStand_goes_Agile
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Achieve_Better_UIs_With_a_Dynamic_Sizing_Library_and_Object-Oriented_UI_Panels
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Achieve_Success_With_an_Intermodular_Communications_Framework
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Another_Kind_of_Actor_Model_with_LV_NXG
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Best_Practices_for_Building_and_Distributing_Componentized_LabVIEW_Applications
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Better,_Faster,_Stronger:_It's_Not_All_Technical
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/By-Reference_Architectures_for_More_Flexible_Software_Design
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Code_Trafficking:_Smuggling_Your_Best_Software
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Creating_Powerful_Web_Apps_With_the_LabVIEW_NXG_Web_Module
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Customizing_Your_WebVIs
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Decoupling_LabVIEW_Object-Oriented_Programming_Classes_via_Abstraction
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Design_Patterns_for_Decoupled_UIs_in_LabVIEW:_Theory_and_Practice
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Designing_Advanced_LabVIEW-Based_HALs_and_Frameworks_for_Mindful_Extension
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Designing_Software_Like_LEGO®_Sets
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Effectively_Using_Packed_Project_Libraries
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Everything_a_Software_Engineer_Needs_to_Know_Outside_Software_Engineering
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/From_Variant_Attributes_to_Sets_and_Maps_(New_in_2019)
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Get_Team_Buy-In:_Running_Process_Improvement_Workshops
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Good_Component_Design_for_LabVIEW_NXG
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/How_to_Be_Ultra_Productive_With_OOP_in_LabVIEW_NXG_Using_UML
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/I_Find_Your_Lack_of_LabVIEW_Programming_Speed_Disturbing
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Introduction_to_Migrating_LabVIEW_Code_to_LabVIEW_NXG
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/LabVIEW_NXG:_Advisory_Lightning_Rounds
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/LabVIEW_Reuse_and_Package_Management
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/LabVIEW_Unit_Testing:_Outlook_&_Tutorial
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Lean_LabVIEW
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Malleable_VIs:_More_Flexible_Code
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Message_Exchange_Patterns_and_Tools_for_Distributed_Systems
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/My_Continuously_Evolving_Practice_of_Software_Engineering
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/On_Refactoring:_Real-World_Approaches_for_Improving_Code
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Prof_Watts'_Theory_on_Why_Programming_in_LabVIEW_is_Fun!
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Sharing_LabVIEW_Code:_What_Tools_Are_Good_For_What%3f
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Software_Engineering_in_LabVIEW:_A_Look_at_Tools_and_Processes
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/These_Innovative_Tricks_for_ProjectRequirements_Will_Change_Your_Life
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Using_and_Abusing_Channel_Wires:_An_Exercise_in_Flexibility
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/VI_Analyzer:_The_Unsung_Hero_of_Software_Quality_Control
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/What's_New_on_LabVIEW_2019_and_NXG
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019/Who_Are_You_Developing_Your_HAL/MAL_For%3f_You_Or_The_Test_Engineer
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/8_Reasons_for_encapsulating_your_next_device_driver_inside_a_DQMH_module
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/CEF_(configuration_editor_framework)
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/Confessions_of_a_Retired_Superhero
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/Fast_and_Simple_Unit_Testing_with_Caraya_1.0
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/Mock_Object_Framework
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/Philosophy_of_Coding_-_How_to_be_a_CraftsPerson
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/The_Core_Framework
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/Using_a_Message_Broker_with_DQMH_Actors_for_High_Speed/Throughput_Data_logging
• https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek_2020/VIWeek_–_Open_Your_Instruments_With_A_G_Interfaces_HAL_In_LV2020_(No_Lever_Tool_Required!!)
   

[Michael Aivaliotis]

I spent a long time online with YouTube support and finally got to the bottom of it. The Channel is back, and all the links work!

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

4 hours ago, Michael Aivaliotis said:

I spent a long time online with YouTube support and finally got to the bottom of it. The Channel is back, and all the links work!

Thanks for your efforts Michael. It is appreciated a lot.

I just checked the logs and am surprised how many user creation log entries are there. At this rate we should have a huge amount of traffic here. I only wonder if this is an ongoing effort from hackers trying to get a hold in the wiki (or maybe indirectly also LavaG) to massively spam it at some point, or if most of those entries are actually genuine. I hope of course for the latter and looking at the names it could be for some. There are of course obvious exceptions like https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/User:Battery_trade-in_financial_gains

Edited Friday at 09:35 AM by Rolf Kalbermatter

[Michael Aivaliotis]

9 hours ago, Rolf Kalbermatter said:

I just checked the logs and am surprised how many user creation log entries are there.

Unfortunately, many of those are bots. I've disable user:pages long time ago, because of the spam. If there's anyone that deserves a lot of credit lately it's @LogMAN. He's doing amazing work cleaning up the pages and adding/editing content.

There's a push recently from NI to support the Wiki and promote its use to the broader community and within NI internally as well. So, we should see more traffic and more activity than usual, which is great. This is one of the reasons for the recent stability updates.

I encourage everyone here on LAVA to find whatever LabVIEW topic they are passionate about and start adding some pages or even fleshing out some existing content that needs improvement. One way to start would be to find some information that you always wish NI had easily available on their website but could never get easy access to. Then create that on the Wiki.

[LogMAN]

Thanks!

On 1/10/2025 at 8:16 PM, Michael Aivaliotis said:

I encourage everyone here on LAVA to find whatever LabVIEW topic they are passionate about and start adding some pages or even fleshing out some existing content that needs improvement. One way to start would be to find some information that you always wish NI had easily available on their website but could never get easy access to. Then create that on the Wiki.

Second that! The new wiki is also much more responsive, so editing has become a much more enjoyable experience

That said, here is another issue I stumbled upon: When attempting to edit https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/User_group (or the associated talk page), the server responds with "Server Error 403 Forbidden" and blocks the IP.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

4 hours ago, LogMAN said:

here is another issue I stumbled upon

I'll take a look and get back to you. But that's a strange error to get on editing a page. I recall editing this page just recently without issue. 😕

[LogMAN]

You probably mean https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/User_Groups. I saw your suggestion on the talk page and was going to split it between List of LabVIEW user groups - LabVIEW Wiki and User group - LabVIEW Wiki. Apparently "user groups" is okay, but "user group" is not 🤷‍♂️

[Michael Aivaliotis]

I fixed the issue. It was actually kind of funny. So there's a security rule on the server to protect against SQL injection. It found a match with "User_group". I guess it thought someone was trying to get the user data from the database? 😁 I added an exception. All good now.