Robert Rohde wrote:
Out of curiousity, when a technical problem shuts down all editing on a major wiki (as this did) are there any automated alerts? Is it likely to be noticed and addressed even if no one rushes to IRC?
I guess I am curious what is the normal delay between problem onset and problem recognition?
-Robert Rohde
The procedure is "a lot of people enter #wikimedia-tech complaining about it". There are automated alerts about servers going down or not having enough free space on disk, but not for 'saving an edit failed'. That would be tricky to do.