Speaking of WP downtime, you might be particularly interested in today's XKCD: http://xkcd.com/903/
wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 24 May 2011 21:35, Itzik Edri <it...@infra.co.il> wrote: > I totally agree with Thomas. > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Thomas Morton < > morton.tho...@googlemail.com > > wrote: > > > So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it > > possible in future to update the error message to explain that > maintenance > > is ongoing? > > > > Seeing as how widely WMF projects are used by a non-technical project the > > current MySQL connection error I am seeing on Commons is just going to > > cause > > confusion :) And the standard error page WIkipedia was showing a minute > ago > > is not particularly helpful/explanatory in this specific situation. > > > > Indeed, given the almost certainty of downtime from this maintenance, > would > > it not just be best to bite the bullet (in such cases) and take the > > affected > > sites off-line with a useful maintenance message? It's essentially the > same > > end point. > > > > What's the best way of addressing this suggestion to the right people? > > (i.e. > > the ops team?) > > > > Tom > > > > On 23 May 2011 21:19, Guillaume Paumier <gpaum...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > The Wikimedia Foundation will be performing network maintenance on > > > Tuesday, May 24 between 13:00 and 14:00 (UTC) (see other timezones on > > > timeanddate.com: http://ur1.ca/49cl2 ). > > > > > > During the maintenance period, you may experience intermittent > > > connection issues to Wikimedia Foundation websites, including > > > wikipedia.org. > > > > > > We have been experiencing router networking issues (and as a direct > > > result, latency issues) since last week. After much investigation, and > > > temporary fixes, the Operations team decided to update the router > > > software and tune the configuration. > > > > > > We apologize for the inconvenience. > > > > > > -- > > > Guillaume Paumier > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > foundation-l mailing list > > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
