Hello everyone

Happy new year!

This is a reminder.

Next Tuesday 9th January at 6:00AM UTC we will have a read only time on s5 for 30 minutes (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181645 ), to proceed and split wikidata onto its own hardware and make the new s8 shard live (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177208).

Amir and Katie have kindly agreed to help us with testing and any possible troubleshooting from the code side.

Communication and coordination will happen on #wikimedia-operations if anyone else is around and willing to provide another pair of eyes, that would be, of course, much appreciated!

Thanks

Jaime, Manuel