Hi all,
I'm forwarding this mail from Sherry Snyder regarding read-only moments on wikis. It will happen on 22nd of March but I hope it won't affect World Mime Day edit-a-thon, cause it will be during low-traffic period.
From: *Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder* ssnyder@wikimedia.org Date: Monday, 14 March 2016 Subject: [GLAM] You will not be able to edit any wiki three times during the next two weeks To: glam@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Education < education@lists.wikimedia.org>
The Wikimedia Technical department is doing a major test for a new data center. This work will improve the reliability of the servers and their ability to recover from a major disaster. As part of this work, it will briefly be necessary to put all of the wikis into read-only mode. This will make it *impossible to edit or save any page* on Wikipedia or any related project, including the Outreach wiki, during those times.
The current schedule [1] is this:
* No editing for 5 minutes on Tuesday, 15 March at 07:00 UTC (3:00 a.m. EDT) * No editing for 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 22 March * No editing for 15 to 30 minutes on Thursday, 24 March
The exact time for the second and third events has not been determined. It will be posted at [1]. It will probably be during a low-traffic time such as 7:00 UTC.
I am sending this information to these lists because being unable to edit would obviously be very disruptive to any training classes or edit-a-thons. I apologize for the late notice. I hope that this will not interfere with any of your work.
There is more information posted here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2016 If you have questions for me, then please contact me on wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Whatamidoing_(WMF)
[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter#Schedule_for_Q3_FY2015...
2016-03-10 10:35 GMT+01:00 Ivana Madžarević <ivana.madzarevic@vikimedija.org
:
Hi again :)
I just wanted to share with you category on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Mime_Day_edit-a-thon where you can find or/and contribute with your own or released photos. :)
Regards,
2016-03-04 12:54 GMT+01:00 Ivana Madžarević < ivana.madzarevic@vikimedija.org>:
Hi everyone,
I'm Ivana Madžarević, Project and Community Manager of Wikimedia Serbia https://rs.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0. I'm reaching out to you hoping that you will join organizing World Mime Day Wiki edit-a-thon. It's an international event that will be held in several countries (so far confirmed) around the world on 22nd of March.
The idea came up in cooperation of Wikimedia Serbia and Serbian actor Marko Stojanović (also president of World Mime Organisation http://www.worldmime.org/). We wanted to enrich Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons with relevant articles and photos of mime artists, theaters, festivals, history etc. Mr Stojanović is very well connected with institutions who can provide literature, photo materials and maybe even a venue for the edit-a-thon. It would have much more impact if it's organized in several countries on the same date - similar like Art&Feminism edit-a-thons. Organizing such an event will help developing strong relations between chapters and building partnerships with relevant institutions through networking.
I've created meta page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Mime_Day_Wiki_edit-a-thon#Time_plan and I'm asking you to join and add information about your chapter if you're willing to organize it. So far, several countries confirmed their interest. Wikimedians from Bulgaria, Armenia, Macedonia and Georgia will organize it and some of them have already contacted institutions who can help with sources and photos. Event in Serbia will probably be organized at Singidunum faculty http://eng.singidunum.ac.rs/ in Belgrade. Mr Stojanović is preparing photos that will be released and used for illustrating Wikipedia articles.
Feel free to contact me if you need any assistance or help. Also, if you have any suggestion or comment, do share them.
Cheers!
Ивана Маџаревић Менаџер пројеката и заједнице
Викимедија Србије - rs.wikimedia.org - 00381 (0)60 7 454 773
„Замислите свет у коме свака особа има слободан приступ целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.“
-- Ивана Маџаревић Менаџер пројеката и заједнице
Викимедија Србије - rs.wikimedia.org - 00381 (0)60 7 454 773
„Замислите свет у коме свака особа има слободан приступ целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.“