[Wikipedia-l] Server down message

[Brion Vibber]

Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
>>Why can't we simply have a Wiki-editable server down message that will
>>be used automatically?

By definition we can't since when the wiki is down it can't access the wiki.

 >> In particular, it should be a different one on
>>each different language Wikipedia. :-p

That we've already got. (Devs: please use outage.php and declareOutage() 
rather than hard-coding $wgSiteNotice.)

> Yes. PLEASE. And PLEASE: Would the developers please announce on THIS LIST:

It took me a while to get this information out of people but here we go:

> * When the Wiki will go down

18:00 UTC tomorrow (June 11).

> * Why the Wiki will go down

To reboot Zwinger with an updated kernel which will fix the disk driver. 
This should improve performance; as the main file (not database) server 
the sluggish disk is a bottleneck.

> * And how long the outage will be.

Estimated at a half hour.

> That isn't so difficult, is it?
> 
> Please give us at least 15 Minutes to change the mentioned server down message 
> accordingly, so that people can save their work. 

In theory, we've committed to always giving 24 hours notice prior to any 
planned maintenance downtime.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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