This is going off topic (sorry) but I've been wondering for a while whether the chapters need to collaborate on a robust infrastructure for their technology needs - to increase capacity, reduce costs and deal with situations such as these (i.e. have expertise on hand and widely available).

At Wikimedia UK we're in the process of building a resilient infrastructure; with the modern capability of spinning up cheap servers behind load balancers there is no real need to have everything on a single piece of infrastructure. And the tools exist to scale horizontally if needed.

Tom

On 14 April 2013 15:15, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch> wrote:

Am 14.04.2013 16:12, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):

> Maybe the first, but in such cases usually the best is learning to link
> only a Wikimedia project page from the sitenotice or centralnotice.
> Notices get a lot of random clicks, few are interested in proceeding to
> the server where the meat is. Moreover, on our wikis we can use the
> Translate extension.
> I think this common sense rule may be added to
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Usage_guidelines>. Only
> destinations tested for the load should be linked.

Thanks Frederico.

Done right it is really no issue. WLM 2011 was not problem, neither
Wikimania 2011 and WikiCon 2012.

But directly linking CMSes and MediaWiki sites from Central Notice are
not a good idea. A quick notification would have helped to do it right.
The lack of notification in conjunction with weekend and people being
away from their computers is a bad combination.

/Manuel
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