Early notification about potential server ops that may result in temporary
read-only status or downtime.
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From: Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 6:01 PM
Subject: [GLAM] Possible editing outages during April
To: "glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
This is early warning of some planned server operations, as an outage can
cause a severe disruption on a short workshop:
In April 2016, the Technology Operations team at the WMF did some work on
the servers that run Wikipedia and the other wikis. This resulted in all
editing being stopped at all wikis for about half an hour on two different
days.
A similar project is currently expected sometime in April 2017. I do not
have specific dates or times yet. However, I expect the first editing
disruption to happen during the first half of April and the second to be
about two weeks afterwards.
They are hoping that the editing outages will be shorter this time (perhaps
15 to 30 minutes). The time of day is undecided; however, it will almost
certainly be when most of the Ops staff is online (afternoon in Europe and
Africa/morning in the Americas).
Last year, the official schedule was kept at https://wikitech.wikimedia.
org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter and the same page may be used again. *If you
are scheduling short workshops during April, then please consider checking
that schedule* or checking with me before you finalize your plans. If you
need to reach me, then I am currently subscribed to the GLAM mailing list,
and you can always leave a note on my talk page at https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/User_talk:Whatamidoing_(WMF)
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Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
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Dear global colleagues:
This is to let you know of a new blog series that I’m writing in my capacity as a teaching fellow at our teaching-and-learning centre at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. I plan to write every week to promote the use of Wikipedia in higher education, and will strive to make the content topical and rich with links to what others are doing. I’m open to receiving your suggestions on how best to do that.
The first post, “The Wikipedia Manifesto,” went live last week: http://words.usask.ca/gmcte/2017/01/17/the-wikipedia-manifesto/.
The second post, “How Students Are Learning Medicine and Collaborative Skills, And Transforming Wikipedia,” went live today: http://words.usask.ca/gmcte/2017/01/24/medicine-and-wikipedia/.
Yours truly,
John Kleefeld
Associate Professor, College of Law
2017 Teaching Fellow, Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness
University of Saskatchewan
15 Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6
tel: (+1) 306.966.1039
email: john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca
skype: johnkleefeld
twitter: @johnkleefeld
web: http://law.usask.ca/find-people/faculty/kleefeld-john.php
mission: http://www.usask.ca/leadershipteam/documents/president/MissionVisionValues.…
Read my article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray, on editing Wikipedia for law school credit: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241.
And my tribute to Lord Atkin, “The Donoghue Diaries”: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2470647.
Also, “Concurrent Fault at 90,” my book chapter in Quill & Friel’s Damages and Compensation Culture: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/damages-and-compensation-culture-9781849467971.
Hello everyone,
I hope you all are having an excellent week :)
As many of you might know, the newsletter is going back to monthly issues!
We will publish the next issue at the end of February. I collected and
incorporated your feedback in the new version. It will focus on sharing:
your ideas, stories, success and challenges. We encourage you to submit an
article for the Feb issue!
The new version will also include a featured topic, that we hope the
community will engage with us in discussing.
This month's featured topic is: Overcoming challenges. What is one
significant challenge you’ve faced in planning, implementing or evaluating
an education program? Participate in the discussion here
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/featured_topic>.
There is also one more thing we’d like your feedback on. It has been
suggested that we switch to an input box to collect stories for the
newsletter. This is similar to how drafts are collected for the Wikimedia
Blog. You can see the input box in action here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog>. An example of how it
could work for us is here
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)/testing>. Thoughts?
This would make it easier for the newsletter volunteers to move articles
into the main newsletter.
Thank you all for your contributions to this great Wikimedia education
community.
All the best,
Nichole