Thanks everyone, especially Mike and Leslie,
Hopefully these sort of incidents will be so rare that we won't need to
work out how to use IRC and get involved there when they happen. But when
they do occur a little note from IT to mailing lists like this would be
helpful.
Just because we can't do anything about it, it doesn't mean we don't need
something to say to a room full of newbies who've come for an editing
session. As it is this combined with the "throttling feature" made for
quite a bit of disruption to a session where we had ten people having an
introduction to editing.
WSC
Message: 2
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:56:06 +0100
From: Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter
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From #wikimedia-tech:
"paravoid: bits was giving us trouble in Europe, we've redirected it to
the US for the moment" at 4:56pm.
Thanks,
Mike
Message: 5
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:05:23 -0700
From: Leslie Carr <lcarr(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter
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FYI -
When you notice an outage, jumping on #wikimedia-tech on freenode
(IRC) is the best way of getting a hold of the people who are
(probably) already working on fixing this. If you do not have irc
access, wikitech-l is a better second notification.
If you are curious, this was limited to the european region and was
due to some instabilities in a network upgrade.
Leslie
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
My 3G in East London has also gone down.
Connected?
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
On Oct 12, 2012 4:45 PM, "WereSpielChequers" <
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Does anyone know why Wikipedia and Commons have both gone down?
>
> WSC
>
> Writing from a slightly modified editing workshop in London
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:30:43 -0400
From: Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter
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I think WSC was trying to log onto Wikipedia Review by mistake. :)
Newyorkbrad