John Tex wrote:
Recently, enwiki was apparently moved without
warning to a new server. This
caused the external toolserver to be unable to perform any analysis of
enwiki information. One of the major users of toolserver is Gmaxwell, who
performs several different beneficial processes using the toolserver.
He has posted to WikiTech-L explaining what happened and what the effects
are:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-April/034904.html
There is also an essay forming at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Toolserver
I urge everyone to visit one or both of the above links to learn more and to
express your support for getting the situation resolved.
We're way ahead of you. To improve the administrative situation, two more people have
been given
root access: Gregory Maxwell (who you mention above) and DaB. Mark Bergsma will be
installing a new
external disk array within the next week, hopefully giving the toolserver enough disk
space and
power to replicate all databases. Please be patient.
It was down altogether for a few hours today. If I understand correctly, this was due to
a planned
reboot for maintenance and some subsequent problems getting it to come back up.
When it is able to once again replicate all databases, will things
like Interiot's tool start working properly? Or will the missed
information be forever lost?
Jay.