Just a heads-up that there are currently efforts underway for the
(long overdue) redesign of the error page that shows when the servers
are down:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76560
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M15/23/
Twitter is the recommended medium to update the public on larger
outages (as we obviously can't rely on our own sites for communication
in that kind of situation), see also
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_response#Communicating_with_the_public
. And the design team is considering to add a direct link to e.g.
@wikimedia on the new error page(s), which I think is a great idea.
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
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