Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread MZMcBride
Liam Wyatt wrote: > On a more general note, does the error page we display when the site goes down > (for whatever reason) link to theses places? From what I remember from last > time I saw that page it only links to an IRC channel. Perhaps it should refer > people to the status dashboard and also

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Nathan
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 8 February 2011 22:38, Dennis During wrote: >> But a few of us at Wiktionary seem to have many non-functioning templates. > > I found a significant number of en.wp templates fell over for me in IE > 8 (Vector, logged in and logged out) - the

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Andrew Gray
On 8 February 2011 22:38, Dennis During wrote: > But a few of us at Wiktionary seem to have many non-functioning templates. I found a significant number of en.wp templates fell over for me in IE 8 (Vector, logged in and logged out) - the text was present, but all formatting was lost. Switching to

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/2/10 Liam Wyatt : > On 09/02/2011, at 4:35, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > >> Le mardi 08 février 2011 à 22:48 +0530, Bartol Flint a écrit : >>> >> >>> Is there someplace I can follow what the status is - like on twitter?? >> >> A public status dashboard is available at http://status.wikimedia.or

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 09/02/2011, at 4:35, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Le mardi 08 février 2011 à 22:48 +0530, Bartol Flint a écrit : >> > >> Is there someplace I can follow what the status is - like on twitter?? > > A public status dashboard is available at http://status.wikimedia.org > > Technical details are

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Dennis During
But a few of us at Wiktionary seem to have many non-functioning templates. On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Peter Coombe wrote: > Latest word is that 1.17 deployment is postponed until at least > tomorrow, whilst the remaining issues are tackled. > > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/1-17-depl

[Foundation-l] The Ada initiative

2011-02-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The Ada initiative is something you may want to learn about ... PS you know what Ada they are referring to I am sure ... Thanks, GerardM http://adainitiative.org/

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Coombe
Latest word is that 1.17 deployment is postponed until at least tomorrow, whilst the remaining issues are tackled. http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/1-17-deployment-postponed/ Pete / the wub On 8 February 2011 17:35, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Le mardi 08 février 2011 à 22:48 +0530, Barto

Re: [Foundation-l] CC "open attribute" released

2011-02-08 Thread phoebe ayers
2011/2/7 Delphine Ménard : > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:33 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> this is just awesome: >> http://openattribute.com/ >> >> Born at the Drumbeat festival, just released! See the backstory: >> http://mollykleinman.com/2011/02/07/announcing-open-attribute/ > > This is really great b

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Le mardi 08 février 2011 à 22:48 +0530, Bartol Flint a écrit : > Now I see this on the main page : > > "Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is > probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few > minutes." Yes. The second attempt was aborted as

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Bartol Flint
Now I see this on the main page : "Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes." Is there someplace I can follow what the status is - like on twitter?? On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Guilla

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, Le mardi 08 février 2011 à 22:16 +0530, Bartol Flint a écrit : > I don't know what you mean Stephanie. Wikipedia is still not working for me > right? anyone else having issue? The tech team encountered issues during the upgrade earlier today, so they had to rollback. They've investigated the

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Coombe
1.17 has just been rolled out again, but there still seem to be load issues: see http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/?r=day&s=descending&c= Pete / the wub On 8 February 2011 16:46, Bartol Flint wrote: > I don't know what you mean Stephanie. Wikipedia is still not working for me > right? anyone else h

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Bartol Flint
I don't know what you mean Stephanie. Wikipedia is still not working for me right? anyone else having issue? -- Bartol Flint Student Erasmus University Rotterdam On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: > As far as I'm aware, as a long standing matter of practice, WMF sites

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
As far as I'm aware, as a long standing matter of practice, WMF sites run the latest stable or development Mediawiki, as a matter of "eating our own dog food". That implies that the notice was merely a courtesy because the change was expected to cause downtime, rather than a point of discussion. My

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Bartol Flint, 08/02/2011 15:58: > Did this something to have do with the downtime today. I saw different > language project were not working at the same time. Some page still don't > look right. the box are broken and tools are not working. > > More notice earlier please. Thank you. I think that

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What would more notice achieve ? The process of installing release 1.17 is important. It did not succeed for now but I hope it will be tried again when feasible. There are improvements in 1.17 where people have been waiting for for a long time. Thanks, GerardM On 8 February 2011 15:58

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Bartol Flint
Did this something to have do with the downtime today. I saw different language project were not working at the same time. Some page still don't look right. the box are broken and tools are not working. More notice earlier please. Thank you. -- Bartol Flint Student Erasmus University Rotterdam

Re: [Foundation-l] Reasoning behind identification policy

2011-02-08 Thread Ting Chen
Hello Lodewijk, just from my understanding: If people take certain responsibilities in behalf of the Foundation, especially if these responsibilities could be related to private sphere, the Foundation takes certain legal responsibilities for these persons too. And thus we need to know who they