There is scheduled database maintenance on Wednesday April 17th from
18:00 - 20:00 UTC (11am - 1pm Pacific) for Wikidata and the English and
German Wikipedias. During this window there may be brief (30 seconds - 2
minutes) moments where affected wikis are read-only.
The purpose for the maintenance is to update our "master" database
servers for those wikis to MariaDB (
https://mariadb.org/). This is part
of our on-going migration to MariaDB from MySQL at the Wikimedia
Foundation (blog post forth-coming!).
Please report any issues after 20:00 UTC/1pm Pacific to
#wikimedia-operations or
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ (see this[1]
page for tips on reporting bugs).
Best,
Greg
[1]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/18/how-to-create-a-good-first-bug-report/
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