As there was a globalnotice the other week when we switched to codfw, I'm sure there'll be one this week for the switch back too.
That reminds me that we noticed during switch to codfw that the message shown when trying to really edit a page (the mediawiki read-only message) contains:
The system administrator who locked it offered this explanation: MediaWiki is in read-only mode for maintenance. Please try again in a few minutes
which isn't quite informative. Is there a task for changing the "offered explanation" part? Some hint about the DC switch (and maybe a link to the meta page) would be better.
- Eddie
On 30.04.2017 21:15, David Gerard wrote:
Would a sitenotice for logged-in users, or at least a watchlist notice, be a good idea?
- d.
On 30 April 2017 at 19:08, zppix e megadev44s.mail@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, as you may or may not already know there will be a datacentre switch back to Eqiad, WMF's main data centre, on May 3rd at approximately 14:00 UTC. For approximately 20-30 minutes you will NOT be able to save edits to any WMF project. If you have any questions feel free to reply back to this email, or ask on IRC on freenode channel #wikimedia-tech. If there any major issues that occur during this time please report them to #wikimedia-tech on freenode!
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