Yeah might be wise to at least reach out to en.wp and de.wp. Or maybe Tech News even ?
DJ
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 6:45 PM Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 14:39 +0100, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
This is just another small reminder that, because the servers which host tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org (wikiminiatlas) and overpass-wiki run on a version of the OS (Ubuntu Trusty) that is no longer supported
(and
hasn't been available for new instances since november 2017).
These services need maintainers and support by community members in order to keep them alive after dec 18th (after which wmflabs will phase out
those
versions) and before the EOL of early 2019 of the OS. Unfortunately it seems no one is stepping up so far to convert these machines.
Quick grep for "MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas" in gadgets across sites lists 209 matches. (A good number might be wrapped in 'if' clauses though or could be false positives.) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P7911
Problem might welcome a heads-up on technical village pumps to reach a broader audience (and reduce surprise if this wasn't working anymore)?
andre
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