[Mediawiki-enterprise] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two days - backup time

And just as a reminder: etherpad.wikimedia.org is not a production-level service, and therefore any data within an etherpad should be considered both public and able to disappear at any time. This is one reason I recommend that people use Etherpads for short-term defined collaboration sessions, and frequently do backups, and always archive documents to a wiki after a session ends. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 08/23/2013 04:16 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > > Thanks to Mark Holmquist for maintaining http://etherpad.wmflabs.org for > > the past long while. It is going down in 2 weeks, so please retrieve > > your text. > > > > I recommend that you: > > > > * go into your browser history > > * search it for etherpad.wmflabs.org > > * go to each of those pads and copy-and-paste the content someplace, > > preferably on a public wiki, even if it's just in your userspace > > * replace the content of the Etherpad with a link to the wiki page > > you've moved the text to > > > > -Sumana > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two > > weeks - backup time > > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:02:13 -0700 > > From: Mark Holmquist <mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org> > > Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org, > > labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > The day we have all equally hoped for and dreaded is come to pass: Etherpad > > Lite has now replaced Etherpad "Classic" in production, and the labs > > instance > > is on its way out. > > > > This is my as-wide-as-possible email warning to say that everything on the > > labs instance, as really should have been expected, is going to be gone > > soon. > > Not immediately - we intend to give you two weeks to get your important data > > off the instance and onto the new one at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ - > > but you should _absolutely_ be moving things as soon as possible. We will > > also keep a data dump around, in case anything else needs to get pulled out > > of the pads, but I would suggest not relying on that if you don't have to. > > > > And in the future: If a URL has "wmflabs.org" in it...don't put anything, > > ANYTHING, important there. The purpose of labs is to let us experiment with > > new technology without having to worry about reliability. > > > > Thanks so much for your help and understanding in the course of this > > migration. > > > > tl;dr: http://etherpad.wmflabs.org is going down in 2 weeks, get yer > > stuff off it.