Hi folks,

today is sysadmin appreciation day! ( http://www.sysadminday.com/ ) Many thanks to the Wikimedia operations team for being there at all times of day and night to keep our sites up and our users happy -- and for always working hard to make things faster, more stable, and more secure.

For the Wikimedia Foundation, that goes for the office IT team as well -- thanks for all your help with networks, printers, laptops, monitors, projectors, smartphones, dumb phones, and the myriad pieces of open and not-open software that we run. Special thanks to all the volunteers who participate in Wikimedia operations, help with outages, close shell bugs, document things, and do so much more.

Please join me in thanking our ops and IT teams. You all rock - thanks for being here. :-)

Erik