On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:43 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com 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
I believe with this issue (Full MySQL table) that there is no easy way to automate the test..... maybe you could automatically query it every so often but even then that might not return reliable results.
One could query count(*) from revisions (or some similar artifice, such as looking at the recent changes feed) and trigger an alert if it stops increasing.
Such things are probably totally unnecessary on enwiki, because there is no shortage of people to complain, but I could image it might be useful to have such an alert for smaller, non-English speaking wikis.
-Robert Rohde