I just got:
This wiki has a problem Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Cannot contact the database server: No working slave server: Unknown error (10.0.2.185))
What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our most profitable product ...
(I also recall there being a multilingual error page. Is this one en:wp-specific?)
- d.
On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:
I just got:
This wiki has a problem Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Cannot contact the database server: No working slave server: Unknown error (10.0.2.185))
What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our most profitable product ...
At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)
(I also recall there being a multilingual error page. Is this one en:wp-specific?)
You're thinking of the squid proxy error page, which displays when the backend servers can't be reached. This is a MediaWiki internal error.
-- brion
2009/4/27 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:
What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our most profitable product ...
At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)
We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic mirror not served from WMF machines ...
- d.
On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org:
On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:
What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our most profitable product ...
At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)
We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic mirror not served from WMF machines ...
The tricky part is having it survive the traffic. ;)
-- brion
2009/4/27 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org:
At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)
We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic mirror not served from WMF machines ...
The tricky part is having it survive the traffic. ;)
*cough* yeah, I remember when Wikipedia downtime would immediately kill berlios.de ...
- d.
2009/4/27 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org:
On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:
What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our most profitable product ...
At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)
We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic mirror not served from WMF machines ...
The tricky part is having it survive the traffic. ;)
If that message is for when MediaWiki breaks, presumably that means the squids are still up and running and, obviously, they can survive the traffic. Could the squids run a simplified version of the donation software themselves? It doesn't need to have all the interesting comments and statistics and stuff that we usually have. In fact, it doesn't need much more than a link to paypal.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(I also recall there being a multilingual error page. Is this one en:wp-specific?)
That's a different one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/& ;-)
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