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

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Wed May 25 12:01:56 UTC 2011


Theo10011 wrote:
> Instead of diverting users to IRC, how about an outage/error page with a
> twitter/identi.ca feed with updates from the tech team, or at least a page
> with customized message in case of previously planned outage. Most of the
> tech staff already use Twitter/Identi.ca to update users, maybe we can look
> for a way to incorporate that feed in the outage page itself or point them
> to it.

Is it so much to ask that you read the mailing list thread before replying?
Nobody's asking you to memorize every word, but having some general idea of
what has been discussed would make your replies less redundant and/or
seemingly obtuse.

MZMcBride





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