Hey translators,

We've prepared a notice to inform logged-in users and anonymous users about the downtime.  It's only one sentence and will be reused for future incidences like these.  

You can translate it here: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Downtime>

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From: Mark Bergsma <mark@wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Downtime due to network maintenance, Friday July 31st 12:00 UTC
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hello,

Due to a problem in one of our core routers in our Tampa cluster we need
to perform some network maintenance tomorrow, Friday July 31st around
12:00 UTC. We will be performing a software upgrade and reboot of the
router. This should not take more than a few minutes if everything goes
well. Unfortunately this means that practically all sites and services
will be down during that time.

For those interested: one of the line cards in the router failed earlier
this week. A replacement has arrived, but does not boot up correctly
after hot plugging. Because we want to upgrade the firmware anyway, we
will reboot the entire box.

Cheers,

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Mark Bergsma <mark@wikimedia.org>
System & Network Administrator, Wikimedia Foundation

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