Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Hello,
Last week xirzon proposed to separate the chat traffic for the mediawiki software and the one for wikipedia servers. The idea was :
#mediawiki : mediawiki software development and support #wikitech : wikipedia specific issues and servers support
I personally find its a good idea. Users asking for support in #mediawiki often found their question flooded by wikipedia's servers administrators :o)
We could also get a bot that post cvs commit to #mediawiki since the traffic will be lowered (or maybe #mediawiki-cvs could feat this better).
I may have been tired, irritable and stressed at the time, but I seem to remember voting with my feet on this proposal. MediaWiki developers should be interested in Wikipedia server administration and similarly it's hard to talk about Wikipedia server administration without getting onto the subject of the only significant thing those servers do. People asking for support regarding MediaWiki issues may at least know why they are being ignored, if they see a room full of frantic discussion about a server crash rather than simply a lack of response.
-- Tim Starling