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

[Liam Wyatt]

Speaking of WP downtime, you might be particularly interested in today's
XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/903/


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Peace, love & metadata


On 24 May 2011 21:35, Itzik Edri <itzik at infra.co.il> wrote:

> 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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