Just wondering...<div><br></div><div>Can't wikimedia add the toolserver to the <a href="http://status.wikimedia.org">status.wikimedia.org</a> page? This will mean that there is no manual updating for statusses anymore. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/8/17 DaB. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:WP@daniel.baur4.info">WP@daniel.baur4.info</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<div class="im">At Wednesday 17 August 2011 14:42:49 DaB. wrote:<br>
> Several users were worried about toolserver tools that stopped working<br>
> without (to them) apparent reason. I have tried to explain in in<br>
> non-tech-German [1] and it seems that helped.<br>
><br>
> I was then asked if these issues are communicated somewhere centrally.<br>
> I found [2], which points to [3], which returns 404. It would probably<br>
> be too technical anyway. <a href="http://status.toolserver.org" target="_blank">status.toolserver.org</a> would not help the<br>
> average user either, even if it were always up-to-date.<br>
><br>
> So, should issues that affect the toolserver users (either the<br>
> code-writing or the tool-using, or both) be mentioned somewhere? There<br>
> is the toolserver blog [4], with the last entry from February 2010...<br>
><br>
> I think if all toolserver admins had write access to that blog, one of<br>
> them could spare 5 minutes (if that) to update the general public<br>
> about major issues or changes (changing stuff on the toolserver, even<br>
> supposedly minor changes, tends to break stuff...).<br>
<br>
</div>I guess we have to differ 2 cases: Emergency problems (like the outage tonight)<br>
and the rest. During emergencies all the roots have time for is to update<br>
<a href="http://status.toolserver.org" target="_blank">status.toolserver.org</a> (which was repaired last night) and maybe an eMail to<br>
announce. I think it is clear that we than have other things to do then<br>
writing long texts ;-).<br>
For all other thing I think a revive of the blog would be great (I first have<br>
to remember how to login there). What is not an option is to write something<br>
at all/most/few wikis – but you (the tool-programmers) can do what. You speak<br>
the languages and know where to write it (so thanks to you magnus that you<br>
informed commons).<br>
<br>
Sincerly,<br>
DaB.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Magnus<br>
><br>
><br>
> [1]<br>
> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum#Zentrale_Info_.C3.BCber_Te" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum#Zentrale_Info_.C3.BCber_Te</a><br>
</div>> chnikprobleme [2] <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/MaintenanceLog" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/MaintenanceLog</a><br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> [3] <a href="https://jira.toolserver.org/display/tech/Maintenance+log" target="_blank">https://jira.toolserver.org/display/tech/Maintenance+log</a><br>
> [4] <a href="http://journal.toolserver.org/" target="_blank">http://journal.toolserver.org/</a><br>
><br>
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