On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Please report urgent system administration issues to IRC, specifically #wikimedia-tech on irc.freenode.net.
-- Tim Starling
Certainly IRC is the best way to inform developers and sys admins of a problem with Wikipedia.
As a user, I also like to know what's going on when there is a problem. But, I'm not regularly on IRC. If I'm at work where I sometimes look up things on Wikipedia (but don't edit), and see that Wikipedia is down, then I am curious what the problem is. However, IRC and other types of chat are forbidden at work. :( But, I am allowed to access gmail.
So, I very much appreciate it when people send messages to the mailing list about such problems.
-Aude
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