[Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

[WereSpielChequers]

Thanks everyone, especially Mike and Leslie,

Hopefully these sort of incidents will be so rare that we won't need to
work out how to use IRC and get involved there when they happen. But when
they do occur a little note from IT to mailing lists like this would be
helpful.

Just because we can't do anything about it, it doesn't mean we don't need
something to say to a room full of newbies who've come for an editing
session. As it is this combined with the "throttling feature" made for
quite a bit of disruption to a session where we had ten people having an
introduction to editing.

WSC

Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:56:06 +0100
> From: Michael Peel <michael.peel at wikimedia.org.uk>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter
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> From #wikimedia-tech:
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> "paravoid: bits was giving us trouble in Europe, we've redirected it to
> the US for the moment" at 4:56pm.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:05:23 -0700
> From: Leslie Carr <lcarr at wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter
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> FYI -
> When you notice an outage, jumping on #wikimedia-tech on freenode
> (IRC) is the best way of getting a hold of the people who are
> (probably) already working on fixing this.  If you do not have irc
> access, wikitech-l is a better second notification.
>
> If you are curious, this was limited to the european region and was
> due to some instabilities in a network upgrade.
>
> Leslie
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Richard Symonds
> <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> > My 3G in East London has also gone down. Connected?
> >
> > Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
> > On Oct 12, 2012 4:45 PM, "WereSpielChequers" <
> werespielchequers at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know why Wikipedia and Commons have both gone down?
> >>
> >> WSC
> >>
> >> Writing from a slightly modified editing workshop in London
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:30:43 -0400
> From: Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter
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> I think WSC was trying to log onto Wikipedia Review by mistake. :)
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> Newyorkbrad
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