[Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

[Itzik Edri]

I totally agree with Thomas.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it
> possible in future to update the error message to explain that maintenance
> is ongoing?
>
> Seeing as how widely WMF projects are used by a non-technical project the
> current MySQL connection error I am seeing on Commons is just going to
> cause
> confusion :) And the standard error page WIkipedia was showing a minute ago
> is not particularly helpful/explanatory in this specific situation.
>
> Indeed, given the almost certainty of downtime from this maintenance, would
> it not just be best to bite the bullet (in such cases) and take the
> affected
> sites off-line with a useful maintenance message? It's essentially the same
> end point.
>
> What's the best way of addressing this suggestion to the right people?
> (i.e.
> the ops team?)
>
> Tom
>
> On 23 May 2011 21:19, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > The Wikimedia Foundation will be performing network maintenance on
> > Tuesday, May 24 between 13:00 and 14:00 (UTC) (see other timezones on
> > timeanddate.com: http://ur1.ca/49cl2 ).
> >
> > During the maintenance period, you may experience intermittent
> > connection issues to Wikimedia Foundation websites, including
> > wikipedia.org.
> >
> > We have been experiencing router networking issues (and as a direct
> > result, latency issues) since last week. After much investigation, and
> > temporary fixes, the Operations team decided to update the router
> > software and tune the configuration.
> >
> > We apologize for the inconvenience.
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Paumier
> >
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