On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Please report urgent system administration issues to IRC, specifically
#wikimedia-tech on
irc.freenode.net.
-- Tim Starling
Certainly IRC is the best way to inform developers and sys admins of a
problem with Wikipedia.
As a user, I also like to know what's going on when there is a problem.
But, I'm not regularly on IRC. If I'm at work where I sometimes look up
things on Wikipedia (but don't edit), and see that Wikipedia is down, then I
am curious what the problem is. However, IRC and other types of chat are
forbidden at work. :( But, I am allowed to access gmail.
So, I very much appreciate it when people send messages to the mailing list
about such problems.
sometimes has some decent clues as to what is wrong and what is being
done to fix it.