Note: it date was later corrected to be Friday April 11th.
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Manuel Arostegui <marostegui(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: April 5, 2019 at 1:22:12 AM CDT
> To: Operations Engineers <ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] s3 primary db master failover on Thursday 10th April 05:00AM UTC
> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hello,
>
> Due to hardware malfunction on the current s3 database primary master
> (T219115) we need to failover it to a different host.
>
> We are going to do this on Thursday 10th at 05:00 AM UTC, and we have
> requested a 30 minutes window (T220080) as we have to go read only for all
> the wikis living on s3 (P7994).
>
> Impact: Writes will be blocked, reads will remain unaffected.
> Time: 05:00AM UTC - 05:30 AM UTC (we do not expect to use the full 30
> minutes window).
>
> Communication will happen at #wikimedia-operations
> If you are around at that time and want to help with the monitoring, please
> join us!
>
> Thanks
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// sorry for cross-posting
Hello,
readers of an article who want to check the article’s citation have to jump
down to the reference section – and that is disturbing their reading flow.
Hence, it was a top wish[1] from the German Wikipedia community to have
previews of references inside the article text.
That’s what the Reference Previews feature does: When you hover over a
footnote marker or click on it, you’ll see a little pop-up with the content
of the reference. This pop-up is similar to the Page Previews[2] pop-ups,
which show previews of linked articles. Reference Previews are also
influenced by the Reference Tooltips gadget, which is used in several
Wikipedias. Additionally, Reference Previews indicate the type of a
reference, which is meant to help readers assess quickly if they consider
the cited source trustworthy. First tests have confirmed this to be helpful.
Reference Previews are being developed by Wikimedia Germany’s Technical
Wishes[3] team, with technical support from the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Reading Web[4] team. The design for this feature is being done by the WMF.
Now, a very first version of Reference Previews will be available as a beta
feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. The deployment is planned for
Thursday, April 4. If you want to test it, please have a look at the
information for activating the beta feature.[5] Feedback is very welcome
on the central talk page![6]
If you want to try Reference Previews at an early stage on your wiki,
please let us know on the central talk page.[6]
More information about the wish and the feature can be found on the project
page.[7]
Best,
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Try…
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Reference_Previews
[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews