[Wikipedia-l] Scheduled global downtime

[Sabine Cretella]

Hi, if you are going to do that (multilingual downtime page), just give 
me the text in English and you'll have German and Italian back asap. 
Furthermore I'd send the translation request to translators-l at wikimedia.org.

Ciao, Sabine


ultrablue at gmail.com wrote:

>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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