https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16043
--- Comment #9 from Martin Peeks <[email protected]> 2009-08-05 21:21:18 UTC --- Great change has taken place in #wikipedia with regards to opping practices. It remains difficult to manage the channel during times of downtime, especially with little or no support from sysadmins (if the channel gets particularly hectic, while +m might not be warranted, it is impossible to read both the channel and #wikimedia-tech). A far better solution than Mike suggests is that the Wikimedia sysadmins go to the effort of creating some easy, quick to update and accessible method of telling users what is going on. Not many people use and are familiar with IRC - and I'd expect that for 90% of people who see the "site are down" message, their usual next step would be to (ironically!) visit wikipedia to see what IRC means! It therefore serves very few users as a means of providing status updates. It would be relatively trivial for someone to create (yet another) IRC bot for #wikimedia-tech which could write comments given to it to either a blog or something like twitter (and thus an RSS feed). This would be accessible to many many more users affected by Wikimedia downtime. An IRC channel is no longer fit for purpose. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
