Alexandros Kosiaris wrote:
>This is to inform you that on Monday Feb 22nd 2018 ~10:00 UTC, the
>infrastructure powering irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted for
>security upgrades. This is expected to only impact bots that are using
>irc.wikimedia.org AND are not able to automatically reconnect on
>connection failure. From recent experience (the equipment was rebooted
>210 ago last time, with no fallout) those are very limited in number
>these days.
Thank you for this notice.
Do you know if it's still the case that per-wiki channels on
irc.wikimedia.org are not available/able to be joined until there's
activity on that wiki? My memory is that reconnecting to irc.wikimedia.org
has not usually been the issue (as you note), but instead it's been that
there's a speaking bot account on the network that would only create a
channel after there's some activity to report about that wiki. For larger
wikis with lots of activity, this means the channels get created nearly
instantly after a server restart. For smaller wikis with little activity,
this means that the channels may not get re-created for days or even weeks.
I just tested irc.wikimedia.org again and it appears that joining/creating
arbitrary channels is not allowed. This makes me think that bot accounts
and others would be disallowed from joining small/quiet wiki channels
until those channels are re-created by by the server/rc-pmtpa, unless some
kind of whitelist or workaround has been implemented.
MZMcBride
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