[Labs-l] NFS outage in progress [UPDATE]

[Maximilian Doerr]

That means I need to restore my bots.  Fortunately, I always keep a local copy.

Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
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> On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:39, Steinsplitter Wiki <steinsplitter-wiki at live.com> wrote:
> 
> <Coren> To make things clear; the filesystem backing NFS has suffered from a catastrophic failure.  We are currently hard at work restoring a backup that dates from June 9 around 16h UTC.  We may be able to provide part of the data at the time of the crash, but it is not certain at this time.
> 
> -
> no comment....  ---sigh---
> 
> > To: labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> > From: benestar.wikimedia at gmail.com <mailto:benestar.wikimedia at gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:14:36 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [Labs-l] NFS outage in progress [UPDATE]
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Am 18.06.2015 um 16:07 schrieb Petr Bena:
> > > That is actually not that easy to decide on. The biggest community are
> > > wikipedia readers. They don't really care about labs at all. Second
> > > biggest community are editors, they don't care so much about labs
> > > either.
> > That's certainly not true. There are so many tools hosted on labs which 
> > are used by non-techs (ie. "normal" editors) and also the bots have a 
> > great impact if editors can do there work.
> > 
> > > Developer community is not that big and most of money comes from
> > > readers. If there was a way for donors to choose which part of
> > > wikimedia project they would like to support with their money, I doubt
> > > there would be many of them who would actually pick "labs".
> > 
> > Furthermore, I think it is confusing to just consider the pure size of a 
> > community. It is much more important to see what impact the people of a 
> > community have. Wiki(p|m)edia editors have a great impact on the 
> > Wikimedia movement and readers actually pay to support the guys making 
> > this movement happen.
> > 
> > So while it is important to make reading Wikipedia easy, it is also 
> > important to help the editors as they are the ones which actually make 
> > the content. Readers don't come to Wikipedia because there is a nice 
> > MediaViewer or a nice VisualEditor but because there is interesting 
> > content. This is the point we have to focus on.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Bene
> > 
> > 
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