On 26/05/11 17:57, Milos Rancic wrote: > On 05/25/2011 01:12 PM, Tim Starling wrote: >> On 25/05/11 18:14, Thomas Morton wrote: >>> IRC was flooded with people who didn't understand what was going on. And >>> many didn't believe/understand that it was maintenance... so this is >>> definitely an area worth improving. >> >> Maybe we can replace the IRC link in the Squid error message with a >> link to the WatchMouse page (status.wikimedia.org). That would reduce >> the IRC flood. > > Site notice for a week before the maintenance would be useful, too. We > communicate with our users via web site, not via emails.
I think a banner for a week would be excessive to advertise 2 minutes of downtime. I think a banner for a day was excessive. Some people don't care if Wikipedia is down for 2 minutes. If it wasn't my job to care, I would be one of them. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
