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