Thanks everyone, especially Mike and Leslie, Hopefully these sort of incidents will be so rare that we won't need to work out how to use IRC and get involved there when they happen. But when they do occur a little note from IT to mailing lists like this would be helpful.
Just because we can't do anything about it, it doesn't mean we don't need something to say to a room full of newbies who've come for an editing session. As it is this combined with the "throttling feature" made for quite a bit of disruption to a session where we had ten people having an introduction to editing. WSC Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:56:06 +0100 > From: Michael Peel <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > From #wikimedia-tech: > > "paravoid: bits was giving us trouble in Europe, we've redirected it to > the US for the moment" at 4:56pm. > > Thanks, > Mike > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:05:23 -0700 > From: Leslie Carr <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter > Message-ID: > <CAK= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > FYI - > When you notice an outage, jumping on #wikimedia-tech on freenode > (IRC) is the best way of getting a hold of the people who are > (probably) already working on fixing this. If you do not have irc > access, wikitech-l is a better second notification. > > If you are curious, this was limited to the european region and was > due to some instabilities in a network upgrade. > > Leslie > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Richard Symonds > <[email protected]> wrote: > > My 3G in East London has also gone down. Connected? > > > > Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK > > On Oct 12, 2012 4:45 PM, "WereSpielChequers" < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know why Wikipedia and Commons have both gone down? > >> > >> WSC > >> > >> Writing from a slightly modified editing workshop in London > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > >> > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:30:43 -0400 > From: Newyorkbrad <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter > Message-ID: > <CAGbz8Te7ri8_o57wokvehgLpQbca_0-F2= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I think WSC was trying to log onto Wikipedia Review by mistake. :) > > Newyorkbrad > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
