[Wikipedia-l] Scheduled global downtime

[ultrablue at gmail.com]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean you're shifting the
servers across the street at 3AM? That's got to look suspicious :-)

If you're setting up a downtime page on the Paris squids, I recommend
not including a link to Openfacts.berlios.de. Every time Wikipedia has
even a mild downtime (i.e. about 3 minutes or less) that site gets
overwhelmed and goes down itself. I don't think it's fair on whoever
owns that site.

I also recommend making any downtime error page generated
multilingual, by consulting the people in the other language IRC
channels. If I wasn't studying for exams I'd do that myself.

~Mark Ryan

On 6/4/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> On 7 June, 2005 at 3:00AM Eastern Standard Time (9:00AM Paris/Berlin
> time) we will be moving the bulk of the servers to a new facility across
> the street.
> 
> I assume we will try to set up a sensible "downtime" page on the paris
> squids or something.  But the site will absolutely be down for awhile.
> 
> The colocation facility is providing staff to do the move, and we are
> also supplying myself, Chad, Terry, and possibly Michael Davis and
> possibly a friend of Chad's -- all to make this go as quickly as possible.
> 
> --Jimbo
> 
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