On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Eddie Greiner-Petter < wikimedia.org@eddie-sh.de> wrote:
That reminds me that we noticed during switch to codfw that the message shown when trying to really edit a page (the mediawiki read-only message) contains:
The system administrator who locked it offered this explanation: MediaWiki is in read-only mode for maintenance. Please try again in a few minutes
which isn't quite informative. Is there a task for changing the "offered explanation" part? Some hint about the DC switch (and maybe a link to the meta page) would be better.
The read-only messages are controlled by these strings:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/wmf-... https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/wmf-...
I think with the pressure of keeping everything up, plus discussing internally if we should declare a specific amount of time (given it doesn't auto-update) we ended up a very generic message. We are, however, looking at showing better error messages like on the ticket I reported at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163455#3199813
Please send a pull request or file a new ticket on Phabricator with the #operations and #codfw-rollout tags with a proposal and we can definitely change it by Wednesday.
Thanks,