2009/3/11 Aude <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> Please report urgent system administration issues to IRC, specifically >> #wikimedia-tech on irc.freenode.net. >> >> -- Tim Starling >> > > > Certainly IRC is the best way to inform developers and sys admins of a > problem with Wikipedia. > > As a user, I also like to know what's going on when there is a problem. > But, I'm not regularly on IRC. If I'm at work where I sometimes look up > things on Wikipedia (but don't edit), and see that Wikipedia is down, then I > am curious what the problem is. However, IRC and other types of chat are > forbidden at work. :( But, I am allowed to access gmail. > > So, I very much appreciate it when people send messages to the mailing list > about such problems.
The admin log on http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log sometimes has some decent clues as to what is wrong and what is being done to fix it. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
