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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Prefectures task force/Archive 1
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- 1 Apply format?
- 2 Categories
- 3 Table format
- 4 Mistake moving articles...
- 5 template for the table
- 6 Prefecture navoboxes
- 7 Vote on picture placement and symbol/map placement in infobox
- 7.1 Favor adding a photograph above or in the infobox
- 7.2 Oppose adding a photograph above or in the infobox
- 7.3 Favor switching prefecture symbol and map in infobox
- 7.4 Oppose switching prefecture symbol and map in infobox
- 7.5 Favor adding towns and villages to navigational templates
- 7.6 Favor leaving navigational templates as they are (with cities and districts)
- 7.7 Favor deleting districts from navigational templates, leaving only cities
- 7.8 Summary of votes
- 8 Naming of subnational entities
- 9 Cry for help from stub-sorting WikiProject
- 10 Picture placement in Tokyo article
- 11 Tokyo map?
- 12 Poll for image placement for Tokyo
- 13 Project directory
- 14 Wikipedia Day Awards
- 15 Tokyo task force started
Apply format?
Can I apply this format now since no one seems to show any objection so far? I would like to put a list of districts and cities to each prefecture. -- Taku 00:14 Apr 5, 2003 (UTC)
- Yeah I think its time to start :) --synthetik 00:34 Apr 5, 2003 (UTC)
I have started putting the prefectures in the Category scheme under Category:Prefectures of Japan. The Aichi prefecture is almost completed with the sections:
- Category:Aichi prefecture
All other topics (i.e. airports, mountains, etc..) are currently under the Category:Aichi prefecture, but this can change in the future if there are enough articles about mountains etc. I hope this scheme is appropriate. Let me know if you prefer a different categorization -- Chris 73 | Talk 14:18, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Table format
The table format seemed to give trouble with the new Wiki software - - in the Area and Population bits, newline+
seemed to give double spacing (sometimes).
+newline gives consistent single spacing - indenting the HTML is being treated as fixed formatting, with visible dotted boxes and some tables came out very wide.
I am working through correcting these defects. --Keith Edkins 10:45, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Mistake moving articles...
I apologize for moving the some of the [[<foo> Prefecture]] articles to <foo> prefecture, but I didn't realize you had already standardized on uppercase. I was under the impression you were all going to standardize on that because Template:Japan is all lowercase still (bypassing the usefulness of the links in the first place...) -- EmperorBMA|話す 21:03, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- All fixed back to capital P... -- EmperorBMA|話す
template for the table
I've created a template for the table (based on the template used for US states) and have changed Aichi Prefecture and Akita Prefecture to use it. Before converting the rest of the prefecture articles I thought I'd solicit comments. Any objections or suggestions for improvements? -- Rick Block 17:08, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- That looks fine. The table is clean and looks better than the previous one. One thought is you might to want to name the template "infobox_Japanese_prefecture" or something or don't use the template at all. -- Taku 18:08, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
- Do you not like templates? I view one reason to convert to a template is to make the article text more readable (the ugly table stuff goes in the template rather than right in the article). In addition, it makes it easy to change the format for all articles using the template. I don't much care what the name of the template is, I created it as template:Japanese prefecture to parallel template:US state. Are there other templates named "infobox xxx"? -- Rick Block 18:56, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Well, in general I don't like to see wikipeida becomes more programable and programmed. The use of templates makes things clear but I am not certain it is easy for newbies to understand what is going on. Anyway, this is my preference and I don't intend to push it.
- In general, I'm in violent agreement with this. On the other hand, I suspect the whole notion of infoboxes and tables is likely to be not very clear for newbies to understand so in this case I don't think there's a huge difference (inline table is at least right there to look at, but I think there are so many templates in use at this point that anyone who is at all curious will figure out how they basically work). -- Rick Block 18:08, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- If you don't mind, allow me to elaborate this further :) I think you are missing the point of wiki, that is, in my opinion, the users' little need for learning. I guess the ideal solution, in my opinion, is simply to have a built-in infobox feature like categories or templates. As a long-time contributor, I know the days we used to do those things by hand and the result wasn't pretty. The situation in tables seems analogous to me. The templates should be used to put shared contents among articles, like ones I am putting city articles (e.g., Akita, Akita) In some sense, creating a parametrized template is equivalent to inventing new language; for each template, you have to learn how the table would be rendered and how to fill parameters out correctly. With built-in infoboxs, the layout is up to systems (meaning the user preference, for example, can say about layouts) and you only need to know how to write an infobox in general, without knowing a name of the parametrized template and its syntax. Of course, maybe leaning about templates is not big deal. Again this is nothing more than my 2 cents. -- Taku 04:43, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)
- I absolutely agree the point of wiki is minimal learning. The problem as I see it is that formatting control (and I see the table-ness of infoboxes as fundamentally a formatting problem) is meta information that must be added to, and in some sense inherently distracts from, the content. This means to me that there is no perfect solution. I'd expect a newbie to be able to correct infobox content in an article using a parameterized template, but not be able to add a new entry to the infobox or create a new parameterized template for use in another set of articles. I think my expectations would be about the same regardless of how the infobox is created (raw html, "simplified" table markup, or even wysiwyg editor window). For me (and you may very well disagree) the ability to extract shared formatting information and to standardize the look and contents of infoboxes for a set of articles is well worth the inscrutability of parameterized templates. A built in infobox feature would probably be better, but I can't imagine a way this would provide the standardization aspects of templates. This is of course nothing more than my opinion, which if yours is worth 2 cents is perhaps worth only 1 cent. -- Rick Block 17:20, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Second, I saw names like template:infobox_Company so I was under an impression that it is a standard naming practice. But then I realized that there is template:Japan_infobox and a case in US state so we cannot be certain about naming, I suppose :) -- Taku 15:29, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
- How about "Japanese prefecture infobox"? -- Rick Block 18:08, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- That sounds fine too. Again, now I found that seemingly there is no standard naming. Any name is fine to me, anyway. -- Taku 04:43, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)
I've converted a few more prefectures to use the template (BTW - I'd appreciate any comments, especially from Taku, about the template vs. no template discussion above - this edit will perhaps mask the edit that added the latest comment). Also note that the template version of the table now includes governor and website. I'm considering swapping the location of the map and prefectural symbol in the table, i.e. map at the top and symbol (perhaps made somewhat smaller) at the bottom with the flower/tree/bird. Is there any objection to this? -- Rick Block 01:00, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- At the top of the box, I'd like to see a photo of the prefecture instead of the pref. symbol or map. Can you make it so that we can add a photo at the top of the box above the pref. symbol? Photojpn.org 02:34, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Taku and I have created templates for navoboxes for some of the prefectures. See for example, Template:Akita and Template:Hyogo. Before we go too far with these we'd like to reach a consensus regarding what the content should be. Taku's preference is to include only cities as per the Akita template. Mine is to include both cities and districts as per the Hyogo template. Taku's concern with including both is the potential size of the navobox for prefectures with many cities. I think including both is useful enough to be worth the extra space, and mirrors the situation for US states (most of which have navoboxes including cities and counties in the state, e.g. Colorado). Are there others who have opinions on these templates? Please chime in. I believe both Taku and I are quite interested in more feedback. Thanks. -- Rick Block 19:29, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, I find the navoboxes useful. I favor putting all cities, districts, towns, and villages in the navobox. And put the navobox at the bottom of the page for all cities, wards, districts, towns, and villages in the prefecture. Photojpn.org 02:40, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Include towns and villages in the navboxes, too? I'm not necessariy opposed to this, but I'm concerned about how large the navboxes might need to be if this information is included. Potential alternatives (for Ehime Prefecture) below. If we do this, I think we should indicate the district for each town/village, which I think has the possibility of moving these navboxes into the category of the "massive eyesores"" Snowspinner rails against at Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and series boxes#Series boxes / navigational templates. Note that Ehime has relatively few towns/villages (I think more typical might be about 40). -- Rick Block 20:06, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Curent navbox:
With towns and villages without indicating district (we'd presumably sort them):
|Imabari | Iyo | Matsuyama (capital) | Niihama | Ozu | Saijō | Seiyo | Shikokuchūō | Tōon | Uwajima | Yawatahama
|Iyo | Kamiukena | Kita | Kitauwa | Minamiuwa | Nishiuwa | Ochi
|Towns and villages
|Masaki | Tobe | Kumakōgen | Uchiko | Kihoku | Matsuno | Ainan | Ikata | Kamijima
With towns and villages, indicating district (one possibility):
|Imabari | Iyo | Matsuyama (capital) | Niihama | Ozu | Saijō | Seiyo | Shikokuchūō | Tōon | Uwajima | Yawatahama
|Towns and villages
- I like the bottom one best. If you list only the cities and districts like in the top navobox, it will look like that's all there is in that prefecture. And the people who live in those left-out towns might feel offended. It also makes it harder to navigate to the different towns (who remembers which district the town is in?). If I could do it my way, I would convert the current, single-column list of municipalities under Geography into a compact navobox (the bottom one you made) and use that for both the Geography topic and the navobox. I don't understand why the current list of municipalities under Geography has to be in a single (or double) column. It only forces everyone to scroll down. Photojpn.org 23:13, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Vote bottom Cities, then district sorted towns is clean, clear, and fairly short.William McDuff 01:36, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Vote Current. I like the current one, short, simple, and clean. Listing all the towns and villages in a prefecture would be like listing all the towns and villages in a US State; there's just far too many of them. Stick to major cities, and the districts. LordAmeth 20:24, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
- Vote top I just removed the towns that have already merged. I think the total number of towns is now manageable. If anything, I think we should have towns and villages but not districts, as districts are mostly meaningless in terms of "places to go," "where people live," etc. Amake 07:08, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
- Since this debate is old and there was no overwhelming preference for any single option, I went ahead and implemented the top alternate version. Amake 15:31, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Vote on picture placement and symbol/map placement in infobox
There are a couple of proposed changes that may be controversial and IMO are worth a community vote. Photojpn.org would like each prefecture article to include a photograph above the infobox (on the right), see for example Shiga Prefecture - an alternative is to include a photo in the infobox, see for example Tokyo. I think we should switch the symbol and map in the infobox. Photojpn.org would like to include towns and villages in the prefecture navigation templates (see above). Please indicate your preferences in the appropriate subsections below, by March 7. -- Rick Block 01:42, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Favor adding a photograph above or in the infobox
Please indicate in your vote whether you prefer above or in.
- Favor above the infobox. The photo doesn't have to represent an entire prefecture, although there are things that first come to mind when you think of a prefecture. (Aomori = apples/Nebuta; Kyoto = giesha/temples; Tokyo = Imperial Palace; etc.) It should be an image that would draw interest to the prefecture and entice people to scroll down and read the rest of the page. Photojpn.org 04:04, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Oppose adding a photograph above or in the infobox
- Top-right placement of infobox is a nearly wikipedia-wide standard. I don't think a single photograph can adequately represent an entire prefecture, and is not "basic information" about a prefecture (so doesn't belong in the infobox). -- Rick Block 01:42, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Agree with Rick Block's assessment. William McDuff 01:39, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Favor switching prefecture symbol and map in infobox
- These are geography articles. Showing the location of the prefecture seems like the most important information to convey. -- Rick Block 01:42, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- In favor of this. Photojpn.org 04:04, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Agreed.William McDuff 01:40, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Oppose switching prefecture symbol and map in infobox
Please indicate whether you prefer flat alphabetical list or some format (not necessarily the one shown above) indicating district as well.
- In favor of this in some compact format. The number of towns and districts will continue to decrease as they merge. I favor this only if there's someone willing do it. Photojpn.org 04:04, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Agree, and willing to do Miyagi, at least, if not more. William McDuff 01:42, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I think adding towns/villages will make many of the templates excessively large. -- Rick Block 01:42, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Not at the rate towns are merging nowaways.(Disagree)William McDuff 01:41, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with Rick Block. LordAmeth 20:29, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
Summary of votes
It is now at least March 8 everywhere in the world, so voting is closed. I guess the clear winner is officially apathy since only Photojpn.org and I voted ("tallies" below). I'll switch the map and symbol in the prefecture template (a unanimous decision!). As for prefecture photo placement and adding towns/villages to the prefecture navigational templates, since no one else voted I assume this means "do whatever you'd like". -- Rick Block 15:19, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Or it means "either way is fine." But I'll go with the status quo. Thanks for the time and effort Rick. Photojpn.org 07:46, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Add photo above infobox (like Shiga): 1/2
Add photo in infobox (like Tokyo): 0/2
Switch symbol and map: 2/2
Add towns/villages to navigational templates: 1/2
Leave navigational templates with cities/districts: 1/2
Make navigational templates only have cities: 0/2
Naming of subnational entities
uppercase Somename Prefecture, Somename District
lowercase Somename region
any objections to move regions from Somename region to Somename Region?
Tobias Conradi 22:18, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I don't object. It might be worth noting, however, that prefectures and districts are official governments and government-established entities, whereas regions are not. Fg2 01:44, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
Cry for help from stub-sorting WikiProject
I'm hoping someone here might be able to relieve the pressure on the biggest of the geography stub categories a little. There are now almost 4000 articles in Category:Japan geography stubs. Any help in reducing this by enlarging some of the articles to non-stub status would be greatly appreciated! Grutness|hello? 01:39, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Picture placement in Tokyo article
Hi. I do not mind the normal status quo in terms of picture placement. However, Tokyo, while technically not a city, is often thought of as a city by people in other parts of the world. In city articles, a picture of or containing the most famous monument or image is usually first in the city article.
A separate convention should be established for Tokyo because of its unique nature. WhisperToMe 03:00, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- No, I don't think so. If Tokyo can have an image at the top, then it should be allowed for all prefectures which is what I originally proposed, but no one voted for it. Photojpn.org 04:50, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I don't quite agree with having everything being uniform. It doesn't matter to me if other prefecture articles had pics at the top, but Tokyo is DIFFERENT than the other prefecture because it is thought of as a city by the general world population. Therefore, Tokyo would fall under Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities and therefore should have its own standards. WhisperToMe 22:13, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
OK, why don't you conduct a poll? Photojpn.org 00:05, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Then I will do that :) WhisperToMe 03:48, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Re: Your poll.
- I don't think you should go as far as to specify which picture to show at the top. Not many people like Tokyo Tower (it's not beautiful) and Zojiji is certainly not a temple which people associate with Tokyo. Sensoji is much more famous. So is the Imperial Palace. (Of course, if you were living here, you would probably know this.) Perhaps you should conduct a parallel poll asking what picture would be most appropriate to show at the top. (If anybody votes, that is. We did this before.) Photojpn.org 04:31, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
As we expected, your poll won't go anywhere. I suggest that you instead start a widespread campaign among Wikipedians to allow an image to be placed at the top of the Infobox for all prefectures (don't forget to tell Jpatokal and Manuel Anastácio who both don't like the image at the top). Since more people know you than they know me, if you start it, I'll back you up. I still don't understand why it was decided that a top image is okay for cities/wards but not okay for prefectures/states. Photojpn.org 02:35, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Perhaps announcing this as a survey might be useful. According to Wikipedia:Survey_guidelines, this can't be done without first getting consensus about the nature of the survey. We could (should?) expand this to the general issue of "pictures at the top of perfecture/state" articles. Comments? -- Rick Block 03:58, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
When the prefectural symbol was at the top and the map was at the bottom, I was strongly in favor of putting an image at the top. It was pretty boring to see a B/W pref. symbol which was the first thing the eye looks at on the page. However, after the map was switched to the top (and symbol to the bottom), I no longer feel so strongly about putting an image at the top since seeing the map is more practical. So the status quo is fine with me. But if the Japanese version and more people favor having a symbolic image above the map, I would not oppose. But I see little chance of this happening right now. And making Tokyo an exception among the prefectures is not a good idea. Setting an example for the other prefectures is much more important than conforming with London, Paris, etc. Photojpn.org 02:01, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Tokyo map?
The Tokyo article could use an up-to-date map showing the land portion of Tokyo-to. The one in the article is good, but excessive detail makes it hard to read, except at full scale. Also, a couple of place names are out of date, and some others (e.g. Takao-yama) disagree with article titles. There's no key to distinguish a city/ward (e.g. Shinjuku, Shibuya) from a place (e.g. Ginza, Ueno). The prefectural boundaries are there, but they're a devil to follow.
The map I have in mind would show city-town-village outlines, and if it makes sense at that scale, outlines of the 23 special wards. Prefectural boundaries and names of adjacent prefectures, Tokyo Bay, not much more. A bold, clear, uncluttered graphic. Does anyone know of such a map? Fg2 03:33, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
- The Japanese version has a nice map of the municipal boundaries, but it's so small it's virtually useless. If someone can find out where the original came from and see if it's bigger, then great. The main map of Japan should also be changed because it does not show the Izu/Ogasawara Islands. I was planning to look into this, but if anybody else wants to do it, be my guest. Photojpn.org 04:55, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks, I must have seen it there. It is only about 175 pixels wide. Probably 250 or 300 would be good for the article, and the underlying file at 750 or 1000, would be best. Any opinions from anyone? Fg2 05:49, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Here's the Web page where you can generate maps of municipal boundaries for all the prefectures:
You have to be able to read the kanji for the prefecture, then click on the "Chizu o kaku" button. A nice big (but blank) map appears. Most of the prefecture maps are probably outdated due to mergers. It also seems that this is where the map of Japan came from. Photojpn.org 16:23, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I drew a map using that link and posted it in Talk:Tokyo#Tokyo map, also asking for comments there. Thanks again for the link! Fg2 01:21, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
Poll for image placement for Tokyo
Since the Tokyo metropolitan area is thought of as a city by many people around the world (even though it technically is not a city), I believe that an exception to the rule should be made and that the Tokyo Tower and Zozoji image or another famous image of Tokyo should be placed first (before the infobox or as the top part of an infobox)
- The template currently used allows a picture to be in the infobox, see this version of the article. -- Rick Block 16:13, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Isn't it possible to have two pics in the infobox, with the map on the bottom? WhisperToMe 23:15, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Not without changing the template. The alt text for the map is generated by the template as "Map of Japan with <name> highlighted", so providing any image other than a map would be somewhat confusing. The symbol image could be replaced with any image you'd like since its alt text and caption are explicit parameters to the template. The point I was making above is that "image first, within the infobox" is within the "normal" usage of the existing template. In fact, I went to some trouble to do this so that use of the template didn't really change the appearance of the article. Compare pre-template version with post-template version. As far as I can tell (from the prior poll, above) no one really cares whether there's a picture at the top of the infobox or not. In that poll, Photojpn.org wanted to add pictures to each prefecture. I'm somewhat suprised he's on the "image below infobox" side in this case (is it the specific image you're really objecting to?). As I've indicated before (at least in e-mail with Photojpn.org), I'm on the "image below" side but reasonably close to neutral on this. My concern is the "representativeness" of the image. I think I'll officially abstain from this poll. If the result requires any change to the template I'll be glad to help make any necessary changes. -- Rick Block 00:47, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Isn't it possible to have two pics in the infobox, with the map on the bottom? WhisperToMe 23:15, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- As I stated below, I would be in favor of top placement only if it is allowed for ALL prefecture articles. There are still too many people who are against this (both in English and Japanese). Tokyo should not be an exception among the 47 prefectures. Photojpn.org 02:24, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- P.S. Try and write another prefecture article and put the image at the top. Sooner or later someone will come along and push it down. It happened to me twice. They are not aware of this poll either. How about inserting the image within the map? There is space on the upper left corner for a small image. That is, if you can find a good image. But that map will have to be replaced. Photojpn.org 03:04, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Here is a poll:
- In favor of placing an image (including but not limited to the Tokyo Tower/Zozoji image) before the infobox or as the top part of the infobox:
- WhisperToMe 03:51, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC) - I am trying to keep a city convention of having a picture of the most famous monument first (e.g. Eiffel Tower for Paris)
- In favor of placing the image below the infobox:
- Photojpn.org 20:35, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC) - I oppose top placement for the following reasons:
- As I stated in another note, that particular photo does not define nor symbolize Tokyo. Also, the caption says that the contrast between the old and new "defines Tokyo." It even refers to Tokyo Tower as "hypermodern." Well, it's almost 50 years old, making it one of the oldest major buildings built after the war. And the fact is, you can see this old vs. new contrast in most major cities and towns all over Japan. Most have temples or castles and modern buildings in co-existence. It is nothing unusual and certainly not peculiar to Tokyo. Whoever wrote the caption probably never went outside Tokyo (and last visited in 1958 or the 1960s).
- By not conforming to the other world cities, it will help more people realize that Tokyo is actually not a city. That it is not just an urban area. After all, the little islands way out in the Pacific Ocean can be called "Tokyo." A picture of people whale-watching off the Ogasawara Islands can be titled "Photographed in Tokyo." We want more people to understand what Tokyo really is, and to not spread popular misconceptions further. There's nothing wrong with calling Tokyo a "city," but Tokyo is not just the 23 wards. If you live in Japan, you would realize how so many overseas people (including the mass media) have mistaken ideas and perceptions of Japan. They tend to focus on the stereotypical and sensational aspects while ignoring the rest of the story and total picture. (Case in point: Look at the map of Japan that is being used in the prefecture articles. No Amami Islands, no Izu/Ogasawara Islands [bad for Tokyo], and no Northern Territories. And Okinawa is not just one island [that insert supposed to be Okinawa]. Any map of the USA does not show Hawaii as just one island. Of course, I understand how this Japan map came to be. But the person who originally made it should have at least drawn in those islands or used a more accurate map.)
- The Tokyo article should ultimately serve as the model article for the other prefecture articles (vast majority are still stubs). If we see a picture at the top for Tokyo but not for the other prefectures, it would be confusing (like it confused me at first). People might see and imitate the Tokyo article and put an image at the top in other prefecture articles (like I did) only for it to be moved down by someone who believes in conformity (which happened to me in both the English and Japanese versions). So unless there is widespread consensus for putting an image at the top for ALL prefectures, your proposal is not practical for the rest of us. Please look at the Japanese version of Tokyo. (No image on the top, and find Tokyo Tower/Zojiji way toward the bottom. And the caption simply reads, "Tokyo Tower and Zojiji.") I think conforming to the other 47 prefectures and making Tokyo the model article is more important than conforming to other world cities whose number is much fewer. There is also a stronger relevance between Tokyo and the other prefectures than between Tokyo and other major cities.
- Using your own words in your previous note: "I don't quite agree with having everything being uniform." That settles it then. The Tokyo article need not conform to the other world cities.
- You know, this minor matter is not even worth arguing about (we talked about it before). But if you insist... Photojpn.org 20:35, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I changed the poll around so that any image may be placed at the top. WhisperToMe 23:13, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Tokyo task force started
I am hoping that this will someday became an all out WikiProject, but for now we have the Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Tokyo taskforce - This will focus on Tokyo Metropolis. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:32, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


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Basho Technologies Scales to Record Sales Growth in 2014
New executive team secured additional funding and drove strong bookings growth
BELLEVUE, Wash. – January 13, 2015 – Basho Technologies, the creator and developer of Riak®, the industry leading distributed NoSQL database, today announced record 2014 sales growth along with closure of a $25 million Series G funding round led by existing investor Georgetown Partners. The financing is being used to expand development and marketing activities.
The company achieved several critical milestones in 2014:
- Grew bookings 62 percent sequentially in Q3 and 116 percent sequentially in Q4
- Grew bookings 88 percent from second half 2013 to second half 2014
- Ended 2014 with 87 percent licensing, 13 percent professional services revenues
- Closed numerous multi-million dollar enterprise deals
- Shipped Riak 2.0
- Shipped Riak CS 1.5
- Replaced Oracle at National Health Service of UK
"The new Basho management team has made strong progress in positioning the company to capitalize on growth opportunities for solutions that enable enterprises to extract value from the massive amounts of data they generate," said Chester Davenport, chairman of Basho Technologies and managing director of Georgetown Partners. "Riak and Riak CS software have extremely strong product roadmaps for 2015 and sales momentum is impressive. With Series G funding secured, I have confidence Basho will establish itself as a leading unstructured data solutions provider in 2015."
In March, Basho announced Adam Wray, formerly CEO of Tier 3, as CEO and Dave McCrory, formerly of Warner Music Group and VMware, as CTO. The company also added executive leadership for product, engineering, finance and EMEA management.
Basho has been widely recognized for innovation in distributed systems since being founded in 2008 and Riak has been deployed by more than 30 percent of the Fortune 50. The company experienced a significant increase in enterprise adoption in 2014 in a variety of industries, including advertising, financial services, gaming, retail and healthcare, replacing Oracle at the United Kingdom's National Health Service.
The Weather Company, which oversees popular brands such as The Weather Channel, weather.com, Weather Underground, Weather Central and WSI, initially selected Riak Enterprise with its Multi-Datacenter Replication capabilities while still being extremely lightweight, easy to use and simple software.
"The amount of data we collect from satellites, radars, forecast models, users and weather stations worldwide is over 20TB each day and growing quickly. This data helps us deliver the world's most accurate weather forecast as well as deliver more severe weather alerts than anyone else, so it is absolutely mission critical and has to be available all of the time," said Bryson Koehler, executive vice president and CITO for The Weather Company. "Riak Enterprise Software gives us the flexibility and reliability that we depend on to enable over 100,000 transactions a second with sub 20ms latency on a global basis."
Tapjoy first deployed Riak software to guarantee performance and uptime, even with peak traffic. It found that Riak helped them keep costs down, decrease engineering complexity, and reduce operational effort due to its ease of use and general stability.
"Two years ago, we implemented Riak Enterprise Software due to its high availability, operational simplicity, and ability to scale," said Wes Jossey, head of operations at Tapjoy. "When we began, our clusters typically moved around 40,000 operations per second at peak. Today, we now see peaks well over 250,000 operations per second, all while sustaining sub-millisecond response times and rock solid stability. Despite this massive change in growth, we still do not employ any full-time engineers to work on our Riak cluster. It's really that easy to use."
OpenX became a Basho customer in 2012 to address multi datacenter replication and to consolidate the number of databases it was using to support its ad trafficking system. Riak Enterprise Software meets OpenX high availability and scale objectives with its multi-data center replication achieving over a billion daily real-time ad requests from a global audience.
"Basho has established themselves as a key OpenX partner," said Matt Davis, site reliability engineer at OpenX. "They have worked with us in true partnership fashion to keep up with our rapidly scaling business and have always addressed our concerns in a timely manner. As a supporter of both Riak software and the greater Erlang community, OpenX appreciates the strong engineering prowess at Basho."
"Worldwide demand for NoSQL technologies is driving our growth and greatly expanding our large enterprise deployments," said Wray. "As NoSQL moves into primetime, we're seeing more enterprises seek solutions that address a broad range of unstructured data requirements and we expect this trend to increase rapidly. We set aggressive product and sales goals for 2014 and I couldn't be happier with our achievements this year. We look forward to continuing this acceleration into 2015 and beyond."
Supporting Resources
- Basho Website (http://basho.com)
- Basho Blog (http://basho.com/blog/)
- Riak® software (http://basho.com/riak/)
- Riak® CS software (http://basho.com/riak-cloud-storage/)
- Additional Resources (http://basho.com/resources/)
- Twitter: @Basho (https://twitter.com/basho)
- LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/basho-technologies-inc)
About Basho Technologies
Basho is a distributed systems company dedicated to making software that is highly available, fault-tolerant and easy-to-operate at scale. Basho's distributed database, Riak®, the industry leading distributed NoSQL database, and Basho's cloud storage software, Riak® CS, are used by fast growing Web businesses and by one third of the Fortune 50 to power their critical Web, mobile and social applications, and their public and private cloud platforms.
Riak is the registered trademark of Basho Technologies, Inc. Basho is a distributed systems company dedicated to making software that is highly available, fault-tolerant and easy-to-operate at scale. Basho's Riak software is the industry leading distributed NoSQL database software. Basho's Riak CS software is cloud storage software used by fast growing Web businesses and by one third of the Fortune 50 to power their critical Web, mobile and social applications, and their public and private cloud platforms.
Riak software and Riak CS software are available open source. Riak Enterprise Software and Riak CS Enterprise Software offer enhanced multi-datacenter replication and 24×7 Basho support. For more information, visit basho.com.
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Yahoo! JAPAN Launches Cloud Storage Service Powered by Riak CS
February 19, 2014
Basho is excited to announce that Yahoo! JAPAN has launched its new cloud storage service platform for the enterprise market in Japan, powered by Riak CS. Yahoo! JAPAN is the one of the most comprehensive web portals and the most popular search engine in Japan, surpassing Google.
Riak CS is Basho's cloud storage software that combines Amazon-class economics with the ability to customize and extend. It is built on Riak, Basho's distributed database that is highly efficient at storing and retrieving objects, even under extreme usage or failure scenarios. For extensibility, Riak CS adds compatibility with the Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift API.
Yahoo! JAPAN is pushing hard to be number one in transaction value across the Japanese e-commerce marketplace. LOHACO, a popular internet shopping site operated by ASKUL Corporation, has been using Basho's Riak CS solution via Yahoo! JAPAN as backend storage for almost a year. Riak CS has proven to be a very stable system for LOHACO's needs.
"Enterprises require storage services that are cost-effective, reliable, and scalable. Yahoo! JAPAN has been able to create a cloud storage solution to meet these needs, as well as deliver access to our large networks and server infrastructure, by developing on Riak and Riak CS," said Shingo Saito, Cloud Product Manager at Yahoo! JAPAN. "Our partnership with Basho allows us to continue to build features that are beneficial to major enterprises and constantly improve our Cloud Storage Service by integrating with Riak, Riak CS, and future products from Basho."
Basho is proud of Yahoo! JAPAN's cloud service. We are excited to be a part of this great milestone.
Basho in 2013
December 30, 2013
2013 was a huge year for Basho Technologies and before we dive into 2014, we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on how far we've come.
Case Studies
2013 was the year of the Riak User. We love hearing about all the amazing ways companies across various industries are using Riak. This year, we were able to share dozens of exciting case studies. These include:
- Synacor's TV Everywhere platform
- Enstratius (acquired by Dell)
- Best Buy
- Alert Logic
- Copious
- Datapipe
- Viggle (through OmniTI)
- Bump
- Hibernum
- Boundary
- Qeep
- Shopzilla
- Turner Broadcasting
- Hosted Graphite
- Rovio
- Flywheel
- Customer.io
- Superfeedr
- Gilt Groupe
- Praekelt Foundation
- ooVoo
- Moz
- National Health Service
- Temetra
- Kivra
- City Maps
- The Weather Company
- Tapjoy
For even more Riak Users, check out the Users Page.
We released Riak 1.3, Riak 1.4, and the Technical Preview of Riak 2.0 this year. These releases added such features as Active Anti-Entropy, revamped Riak Control, queryability improvements, Riak Data Types, and much more. Be on the lookout for the general release of Riak 2.0 early next year.
This year we also open sourced Riak CS with the 1.3 release and released Riak CS 1.4. These releases added multi-part upload, Riak CS Control, and integration with OpenStack.
This year, we expanded RICON, Basho's distributed systems conference, to both RICON East and RICON West. These were both sold out conferences that featured speakers from bitly, Comcast, Google, Netflix, Salesforce, The Weather Company, Turner Broadcasting, Twitter, and many more.
We drastically increased the number of Basho partners in 2013. For a full list of partners, check out the Partnerships Page. Some key ones to note include Tokyo Electron Device, SoftLayer, and Seagate.
Our amazing community team hosted over 200 meetups around the world this year. On top of that, they also attended dozens of industry events to spread the word about Basho. Keep an eye on the Events Page to see where we'll be in 2014.
2013 was a busy year but, with some exciting announcements coming, we look forward to an even busier 2014. Happy New Year!
Riak CS vs. Riak
October 2, 2013
What Is Riak CS?
Riak CS is Basho's open source large object (aka cloud storage) software, built on the rock-solid Riak database. It is API-compatible with Amazon's S3 and OpenStack's Swift object storage solutions.
In May of this year, we posted the top 5 questions we heard from customers and our community about Riak CS; today we'll take a deeper dive into the technical details, specifically the differences between Riak CS and Riak itself.
Riak CS as Compared to Riak
Both Riak CS and Riak are, at their core, places to store objects. Both are open source and both are designed to be used in a cluster of servers for availability and scalability.
The fundamental distinction between the two is simple: Riak CS can be used for storing very large objects, into the terabyte size range, while Riak is optimized for fast storage and retrieval of small objects (typically no more than a few megabytes).
There are subtle differences; however, that can be obscured by the similarities between the two.
Why Would I Use Riak CS?
Riak CS is used for a variety of reasons. Some examples:
- Private object storage services, for example for companies that want to store sensitive data behind their own firewalls.
- Large binary object storage as part of a voice or video service.
- An integrated component in an OpenStack cloud solution, storing and serving VM images on demand.
Tier 3, Yahoo! Japan, Datapipe, and Turner Broadcasting are just a few of the big names using Riak CS today.
What Does Riak CS Do That Riak Doesn't?
Riak CS carves large objects into small chunks of data to be distributed throughout a Riak cluster and, when used with Riak CS Enterprise, synchronized with remote data centers.
S3/OpenStack APIs
Without Riak CS, developers have the choice of using Riak's native HTTP or Protocol Buffers APIs when developing solutions.
Riak CS adds compatibility with Amazon's S3 and OpenStack's Swift APIs. These offer very different semantics than Riak, and the advanced search capabilities in Riak such as Secondary Indexes and full text search are not available using S3 or Swift clients.
We strongly advise against it, but it is possible to work with Riak's standard APIs "under the hood" when deploying a Riak CS solution.
The latest release of Riak offers no way to differentiate between clients. Riak CS, on the other hand, supports both authentication and authorization.
Work is actively underway to add a security model to Riak in the upcoming 2.0 release.
Buckets or Buckets?
Users of Riak CS store their objects in virtual containers (called buckets in Amazon S3 parlance, containers in OpenStack).
Riak also relies heavily on buckets for data storage and configuration but, despite the names, these buckets are not the same.
As an example of how this can cause confusion: the replication factor in Riak (the number of times a piece of data is stored in a cluster) is configurable per-bucket. Because Riak's buckets do not underly the user buckets in Riak CS, this feature cannot be used to create tiered services.
Strong Consistency
Riak is designed to maximize availability; the price paid for that is delayed consistency when the network is split and clients are writing to both sides of the cluster.
Creating user accounts in Riak CS; however, led to the need for a mechanism to maintain strong consistency. If two people attempt to create user accounts with the same username on either side of a network partition, both cannot be allowed to succeed, or else a conflict will occur that is very difficult to automatically recover from.
Furthermore, user buckets in S3 (and OpenStack APIs as implemented in Riak CS) reside in a global rather than a user-specific namespace, so bucket creation must also be handled carefully.
Riak CS introduced a service named Stanchion that is designed to handle these specific requests to avoid conflicts. Stanchion is a single process running on a single Riak server (thus introducing a single point of failure for user account and bucket creation requests).
While it is possible to deploy Stanchion using common system tools to make a daemon process run in a highly available manner, Basho recommends doing so carefully and testing it thoroughly. Since the only impact of failure is to prevent user and bucket creation, it may be preferable to monitor and alert on failure. If two copies of Stanchion are running due to a network partition, its strong consistency guarantees will be lost.
With strong consistency options targeted for Riak 2.0, expect to see some changes.
Other Differences
Basho offers multi-datacenter replication with its Enterprise software licenses, and Riak CS Enterprise takes full advantage of that feature. Data can be written to one or more clusters in multiple data centers and be synchronized automatically between them.
There are two types of synchronization: real-time, which occurs as objects are written, and full sync, which happens on a periodic basis to compare the full contents of each cluster for any changes to be merged.
One key difference is that Riak CS maintains manifest files to track the chunks it creates, and it is these manifests that are distributed between clusters during real-time sync. The individual chunks are not synchronized until a full sync replication occurs, or until someone requests the file from a remote cluster. The manifest is made active for someone to retrieve the chunks after the original upload to the source cluster is complete.
A common mistake while installing Riak CS is to configure it using information specific to Riak rather than Riak CS. As an example, per the Riak CS installation instructions the relevant backend data store must be configured to
riak_cs_kv_multi_backend, which is forked from Riak's
riak_kv_multi_backend. Using the latter will cause problems.
Riak (CS) Control
Riak Control is a web management console for Riak clusters; Riak CS Control is a web management console for Riak CS user accounts. Both are optional and both are useful in a Riak CS cluster.
Exposure to Internet
Exposing any database directly to the Internet is risky. Riak, currently lacking any concept of authentication, absolutely must not be accessible to untrusted networks.
Riak CS; however, is designed with Internet access in mind. It is still advisable to place a load balancer or proxy in front of a Riak CS cluster, for example to ease cluster maintenance/upgrades and to provide a central location to log and block potentially hostile access.
Riak CS servers will still have open Riak ports that must be protected from the Internet as you would any Riak servers.
Where to Next for Riak CS?
2013 has been a big year for Riak CS: it was released as open source in the spring, with OpenStack support added this summer. Still, there is much to do.
As mentioned above, improving or replacing Stanchion is a high priority.
We will continue to expand the API coverage for Riak CS. The next major targets are the copy object operations that Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift offer.
Compression and more granular replication controls are also under consideration for future releases.
By building Riak CS atop the most robust open source distributed database in the world, we've created a very operationally friendly, powerful storage solution that can evolve to meet present and future needs. Feel free to give it a try if you aren't already using it.
If you're interested in hearing from the engineers who've made this software possible (and seeing just how far a highly available data storage solution can take you), join us October 29-30th for RICON West. RICON West is where Basho brings together industry and academia to discuss the rapidly expanding world of distributed systems, including Riak and Riak CS.
Basho Events in October
September 30, 2013
While the biggest event of October is Basho's distributed systems conference, RICON West, we will still be traveling the world to attend many other events this month. Here's a look at where you can find us during the weeks leading up to RICON.
Monktoberfest: Basho's Director of Marketing, Tyler Hannan, will be speaking at Monktoberfest on "Medieval Art, Collective Intelligence, and Language Abuse – The Ethos of Distributed Systems." Monktoberfest will take place in Portland, ME from Oct. 3-4.
Erlang Factory Lite: Basho will have speakers at both the Chicago event (Oct. 4th) and the Berlin event (Oct. 16th). Check out talks from Chris Meiklejohn and Steve Vinoski to learn more about Riak, Erlang, and distributed systems.
CloudConnect Chicago: Basho is a sponsor and exhibitor of CloudConnect Chicago, taking place Oct. 21-23. Basho engineer, John Burwell, will also be speaking about building private clouds with Apache CloudStack and Riak CS.
O'Reilly Strata: Basho will be exhibiting and speaking at the upcoming O'Reilly Strata conference in New York from Oct. 28-30. Stop by our booth and find out why we will all be using distributed systems in the future.
For a full list of where we'll be for the rest of the year, check out the Events Page. And don't forget to get tickets to our nearly sold-out developers conference, RICON West.
Learnings from Private Cloud Storage
September 26, 2013
Big Data. eCommerce. Mobile. Suddenly, information technology has shifted from cost center to business opportunity. This opportunity favors fast movers with the ability to rapidly execute on emerging trends. Therefore, the length of traditional IT procurement cycles and provisioning processing has become a significant barrier to capitalizing on these opportunities. To increase their operational agility, some organizations are employing public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or cloud providers (such as Amazon Web Services and Joyent) to rapidly provision compute and storage resources. However, technical incompatibilities, regulatory restrictions, cost at scale, and/or existing capital investments prevent many organizations from utilizing public cloud providers to achieve this operational agility. Private clouds allow these organizations to realize the value of public clouds with the flexibility to comply with their unique combination business and technical requirements.
Fundamentally, a cloud (public or private) creates a composable infrastructure with the following capabilities:
- Resource Pooling: Presents compute, storage, and network resources through a unified set of vendor neutral abstractions and manages them based on service-level requirements.
- Rapid Elasticity: Optimizes resource allocation based on performance relative to service-level requirements.
- Self Service: Delegates management responsibilities for a subset of the infrastructure resources to end-users.
- Metering/Charge Back: Records resource utilization on a per customer basis to support usage billing.
Private clouds implement these characteristics by orchestrating infrastructure provisioning and management through the following services:
- Compute: Physical or virtual machines with a specified number of processing cores and RAM.
- Block Storage: Random access, read/write persistent storage capable of supporting disk partitioning and file systems.
- Object Storage: Write-once, read-many (WORM) oriented storage for large files (multiple gigabytes to terabytes in size) accessed through a key-value oriented interface.
- Network: Network topology definition and connectivity management between compute, block storage, and object storage services, as well as public networks such as the Internet.
Typically, these services are exposed via an HTTP API, as well as a web-based dashboard allowing end-users to simultaneously script complex workflows and visualize their infrastructure.
Superficially, private clouds appear to be traditional virtualization infrastructures with a web interface and HTTP API. While both models share a number of common components, cloud infrastructures achieve reliability by horizontally scaling commodity hardware instead of vertically scaling specialized hardware. The following table contrasts the storage strategies employed by the traditional virtualization and cloud models:
|Data Type
|Traditional Virtualization
|Application Data
|VM direct attached storage (e.g. NAS, SAN, etc)
|Elastic database service (e.g. Riak)
|Static Content
|VM direct attached storage
|Object Storage (e.g. Riak CS)
|VM direct attached storage
|Object Storage (e.g. Riak CS)
|VM direct attached storage
|Object Storage (e.g. Riak CS)
Static content, templates, and backups typically represent the majority of a system's storage consumption. Employing object storage to manage this data brings the following benefits to private cloud infrastructures:
- Reduced Hardware Costs: By replicating multiple copies of data across a cluster of services, object storage systems such as Riak CS guarantee data durability through software rather than hardware. This approach allows users to employ cheaper commodity hardware using ubiquitous SATA/SAS storage subsystems without sacrificing reliability.
- Horizontal Scalability: Since storage coordination and data replication occurs in software, storage is expanded by simply adding new servers to the cluster.
- Operational Simplicity: Accessed via HTTP/HTTPS, object storage systems provide secure access to data using a simple, ubiquitous protocol. Unlike iSCSI and Fiber Channel solutions, this approach typically has little to no impact on network infrastructure designs.
The Apache CloudStack IaaS platform has supported Swift-based object storage since version 4.0.0 and S3-based object storage since version 4.1.0. With the 4.2.0, CloudStack supports S3 and Swift as native secondary storage devices – allowing the system to provision and backup VMs directly from an object store. When coupled with Riak CS Enterprise, Apache CloudStack-based clouds are able to replicate template and snapshot data across multi-data centers to meet off-site backup and disaster recovery requirements.
The OpenStack Object Storage API specifies the semantics of OpenStack's object storage service. The Swift implementation of this API is provided as the default implementation of this API. With the 1.4.0 release, Riak CS implements both the OpenStack Object Storage API allowing it to serve as a drop-in Swift replacement.
As organizations work to understand the opportunities created by information technology, private clouds have emerged as a key component of their strategies to increase operational agility. While private clouds can be constructed using traditional virtualization approaches, such designs will simply mask core infrastructure brittleness and high infrastructure costs. By embracing design principles such as object storage that underpin cloud infrastructure platforms, organizations can realize the promise of increased operational agility and cost savings.
Citrix CloudPlatform 4.2 Enables Tighter Riak CS Integration
September 24, 2013
Basho would like to congratulate Citrix on their launch of CloudPlatform 4.2
This release introduces the first integration of S3-compatible object storage into the CloudPlatform infrastructure, which provides the foundation necessary to enable a tighter integration between CloudPlatform and Riak CS. Cloud-era workloads that require object storage can easily run on CloudPlatform and have transparent access to storage across geographic and logically defined locations.
For mutual customers of Basho and Citrix, this integration can be leveraged to provide either for secondary storage for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) components or as a method of providing Storage-as-a-service (StaaS) to their customers.
Basho remains committed to offering a holistic integration for CloudPlatform users who require the scalability, availability, and ease of operation offered by Riak CS.
For more information on the Basho and Citrix partnership (including a video recorded at a meetup), please review:
Basho Joins Apache CloudStack Project; Collaborates with Citrix on Complete Cloud Software Offering for the Enterprise
Basho and Citrix Provide Update on CloudStack and Riak CS
Basho at Strange Loop
September 19, 2013
Strange Loop 2013 is currently taking over St. Louis, MO through September 20th. Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together developers and thinkers to discuss technologies around emerging languages, concurrent and distributed systems, mobile development, and the web. Basho is a proud sponsor and many members of our team will be there to discuss Riak CS, our open source cloud storage software.
Garrett Eardley, Software Engineer at Riot Games, will also be presenting on how Riot Games is leveraging Riak for their next generation stats system. His talk, "Tracking Millions of Ganks in Near Real Time," will discuss why they chose to use Riak (and move from their existing MySQL architecture), how they structure their data model and indexes, and their strategies for working with eventually consistent data. His talk will take place today, September 19th, at 9:50am.
Stop by the Basho table to grab some swag and to learn more about distributed systems.
Riak CS: Proxy vs. Direct Configuration
September 18, 2013
The other day you heard about a cool new object storage solution, Riak CS, with an Amazon S3-compatible API. You starred the repository on GitHub so that you could easily find it on another day when there's more time to play.
That day is today.
(If you haven't heard about the cool new object storage solution called Riak CS, today is your lucky day.)
You download and install the Riak and Riak CS packages for your operating system and dig into the configuration files. For Riak CS, the configuration files live in a file named
app.config within
As you skim through the default settings and the comments that surround them, something stands out. The default for
cs_root_host is set to
s3.amazonaws.com. Before reading the comments, your mind begins to speculate, "Does Riak CS talk to S3? I thought this was meant to replace Amazon S3!"
Good news: Riak CS doesn't talk to S3.
Instead, this configuration item makes it possible to direct Amazon S3 clients to your Riak CS installation, even if they weren't designed to support an S3-compatible alternative.
Proxy Configuration for S3 Clients
Ideally, your client does support alternatives to S3. If so, skip to the "Direct Configuration for S3 Clients" section below. However, if you're not so lucky, read on.
A proxy configuration allows S3 clients to communicate with Riak CS as if it were Amazon S3. When configuring these clients, you'll need:
- The
portof your Riak CS cluster, configured under your client's proxy settings
- The Riak CS user credentials (
When requests from this client hit Riak CS, they are processed and returned to the client as if they were serviced by S3.
Note that in this scenario, URLs returned from Riak CS will contain
s3.amazonaws.com. Also, several S3 clients only allow you to set one proxy per client. Both of these issues make things difficult if you're trying to link users to objects stored in Riak CS, or if you want to interact with Riak CS and S3 simultaneously from the same client.
Direct Configuration for S3 Clients
A direct configuration requires that the client has support for interacting with an S3-compatible service. This boils down to a client that allows you to alter the endpoint of the storage service you want to use.
Examples of clients that allow you to do this:
There is no S3 trickery in this scenario. The client connects directly to Riak CS without any proxies. To make this work, the value for
cs_root_host needs to change to the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of your Riak CS cluster.
Also, since S3 uses a subdomain to identify buckets created within it, in the spirit of S3-compatibility, Riak CS does too. In order to make this work in your environment, you will need a wildcard DNS entry. This is typically hosted beneath a Riak CS-specific subdomain. If you use
storage.example.com as your cluster name, you'll need
*.storage.example.com defined as a DNS entry with the appropriate IP address so the S3 buckets will resolve properly.
There are pros and cons to each approach. Proxy is easier to setup initially and works with a wider variety of clients. Direct requires a bit more technical expertise and works with a smaller number of clients, but allows you to rid your application of references to
Choose the one that makes the most sense for your use case. We're just glad you chose Riak CS.
- Riak CS docs
- Riak CS code on GitHub
- Riak CS download and installation
- Riak CS configuration
- Riak mailing list for questions
What's New in Riak CS 1.4 – Full Recording
August 26, 2013
Earlier this month, we announced the availability of Riak CS 1.4, which added a number of performance improvements, OpenStack integration, and simpler user management. To provide more details about what was introduced with the latest release, we also hosted a "What's New in Riak CS 1.4" webcast.
This short webcast provides an overview of both Riak CS and Riak, and discusses what's new in Riak CS 1.4. It also looks at the fundamental features and architecture of Riak CS, talks about the key partnerships, and discusses Riak CS Enterprise – the commercial extension of Riak CS.
You can watch the complete recording below.
You can also view the slides from this webcast here.
To get started with Riak CS, visit docs.basho.com/riakcs/latest/riakcs-downloads/ to download the latest release.


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More than a publicity stunt—see: Chad Ochocinco and soccer—there's no doubting the 27-year-old's pigskin pedigree.
The son of a college football player, Robinson initially attended the University of Washington on a football scholarship. The 5-9 Seattle native blossomed into a first round NBA Draft pick, but not before playing one stellar collegiate season at cornerback for the Huskies.
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Whenever I see ducks swimming in our waters, I have to raise the camera to my eye and release the shutter. They are so symmetrical, so perfect in their forms � one a carbon copy of the next.
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It's a holiday tradition around our house. The wife and kids come home from the store with a wonderful holiday creation. It's a gingerbread house kit. A make it yourself in the privacy of your own home kit for creating a domicile of gingerbread. The good news about the kit is most of the hard part is done. That still won't prevent our family from creating a blighted property on our kitchen table.
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Another survey puts Louisiana near the bottom in child well-being. See what the categories were and why we fell short of so many other states. You can also find out which states scored worse than we did.
The Mommy & Me Expo is today at town square in River Ranch. The fun begins at 10am and runs until 2pm, admission is free.
A brother dancing in his room, a sister hiding in the closet taping his every move. I am sure somebody was grounded not long after the camera was turned off.
Thanksgiving, of course, is a time to pause and reflect about all the good in our lives, but what exactly are we thankful for this year?
This past weekend my brother's girlfriend visited us from Portland, Oregon to be my brother's co-pilot in his moving to Portland. She was kind enough to help him pack his belongings into his SUV and reassure us he will be in good hands with her. We really enjoyed her visiting and showing her exactly what the good ole South is made of.
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Vintage One Direction alert! They may be the biggest boyband on the entire planet, but not even the 1D crew were safe from the Undercover wiles of Ant and Dec back in 2013.
How will Zayn, Niall, Harry, Louis and Liam cope with our boy's hysterical wind up as Ant and Dec go undercover to give One Direction a chance encounter that they'll never forget!? Have a watch for a blast from the past!
It's finally here - your very first look at Cheryl starring in I'm A Celebrity... Get Out Of Me Ear!
This weekend, Chezza lets her every action be dictated by Ant and Dec, as she invites a selection of estate agents round to her house. They think they're visiting Cheryl to help sell her house, but in reality Ant and Dec have a few instructions for her which ensure things don't go as the estate agents may have planned.
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This week Ant and Dec are joining a Barbershop Quartet, but obviously it's not just any old barbershop... Oh no, it's a very quirky place featuring some comical choreography and surprise guests. It ends on a high note, that's for sure.
THEY'RE BEHIND YOU! Oh yes they are. Stephen Mulhern was oblivious to Ant and Dec's involvement in this most ambitious Undercover set-up to date.
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Get your funny bone out - it's going to be tickled. Ant and Dec unleash their most elaborate Undercover to date when they trick good friend and fellow presenter Stephen Mulhern on this week's show!
The TV host was due to take centre stage in panto at The Hawth theatre in Crawley, but unbeknown to him, his naughty pals had a few surprises up their sleeves.
How does Stephen handle it? Watch this promo to see his first reaction, then make sure you tune into this week's show for the whole shebang!
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