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Sarah

30 Apr 30 Apr

9:08 a.m.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:33 AM, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi can anyone point me to a write up of the the test plan for this morning's experiment on Wikipedia? Having been logged off about ten times I've worked out that you get logged out the first two times you change page. It will be interesting to see how many editors revert to IP editing. WSC

I haven't been logged out, but very few of my edits are saving first time -- I keep getting the "session expired" message, even when I've only been on the page for a minute or so. And editing has been painfully slow. Lots of discussion about it at the PUMP -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technic… It seems to have started for some people on April 10th. I've been noticing the slow speed for a couple of days, and since yesterday the difficulty saving. Sarah

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Samuel Klein

6:13 p.m.

Not planned perhaps, but I wish it were. It would be fantastically great for us to start serious experiments of all sorts for ten minutes here and there, to begin to understand the subtle dynamics of contribution. SJ On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:33 AM, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi can anyone point me to a write up of the the test plan for this morning's experiment on Wikipedia? Having been logged off about ten times I've worked out that you get logged out the first two times you change

page.

It will be interesting to see how many editors revert to IP editing. WSC

Erm, not any experiment I know of! I believe it's a server issue, but I'll wait for ops to chime in. Maryana

I haven't been logged out, but very few of my edits are saving first time -- I keep getting the "session expired" message, even when I've only been on the page for a minute or so. And editing has been painfully slow. Lots of discussion about it at the PUMP -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technic… It seems to have started for some people on April 10th. I've been noticing the slow speed for a couple of days, and since yesterday the difficulty saving. Sarah _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Mateus Nobre

8:10 p.m.

Hey, think positive. We can use this time of just Ip editing, for get some data and analyze. Just, like... Have you ever thought how many IPs are vandalism reversers? and other stuff :) On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:33 AM, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Having been logged off about ten times

Our memcached cluster (which handles session information) has been experiencing stability issues in the last few weeks. Over the weekend, we rebooted all memcached boxes to deal with a particular kernel issue. Unfortunately there's no graceful failover, which caused session issues to be temporarily exacerbated. As far as we know the cluster should be stable at this point in time. However, you may need to log out and log back in in order to fix the issue for your account. We're planning to add database backing to session handling and improve the MediaWiki integration, to improve stability in the long term. If you're still experiencing session issues after logging out and logging back in, the best place to report them is this bug in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35900 -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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