Hi Cizaña... yes, understand the concern. For advance warning, if a DPL command is modified on-page and starts to effect the site usually we first try to identify what specific query it is and then we'll just edit that page, change the command, and leave a note on the talk page... but we have to act immediately if it's really affecting everyone.
In this particular case, we had a hard time pinning down where the request was coming from and, once we did, we removed it but some users were adding the command in other places (I think - a bit fuzzy about that right now). The commands are typically pretty complex. We understand the intent isn't malicious and only turn off DPL on a wiki if we really don't have any other choice (like this time). Then we work with them to turn it back on. I'm hoping we'll have a way to sandbox this soon so that it won't be a concern. :) Thanks, John Q. Cizaña wrote: > If the issue is reproducible on other wikis would be great to know > what we should avoid doing. > > About the restrictions i hope we get a notice on what will be the > restriction with a few days in advance so each wiki has time to cope > with their lists if they are going to be affected. > > Thanks > Ciz > > On Nov 13, 2007 4:28 PM, JohnQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > DPL is currently disabled on one or two wikis and we'll be having a > discussion with them. In addition, we'll be working on ways to sandbox > these requests in several ways on the backend. > > An ancillary issue during all this is that one of our cache > servers was > acting up. We've restarted that one. > > Thanks for your patience, > John Q. > > > JohnQ wrote: > > Hi Scott ... > > > > I have someone looking into it. Yesterday it was the DPL > extension and > > I've asked inez to completely disable that extension on the wiki in > > question if it's happening again. > > > > From yesterday's problem with this we have some ideas on how to let > > everyone still use DPL but limit the effects... We'll look into > that > > as soon as we're back from Seattle. > > > > Thanks, > > John Q. > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:22 PM, "Scott Hanson" < > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there scheduled maintenance today, or is this leftover from > >> yesterday's issues? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Scott > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
