Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
SCHEDULING: Now is also a good time to let us know if there are going to be big news days or weeks in February where your community would be especially unhappy if you had a window with no access or no editability. For example, if there's an important national election happening in one of the countries you serve, we'd ideally like to avoid taking your site down for maintenance on that day. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap would be a good place to tell us that.
What's this about "taking your site down for maintenance"? I don't think Wikimedia wikis have needed to go into read-only mode or go offline(!) for an upgrade since like MediaWiki 1.5 or something. I skimmed https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19 and didn't see any crazy database schema changes or anything. Am I missing something?
MZMcBride