Le 10/02/2026 à 13:56, Jelto Wodstrcil via Ops a écrit :
Hello everyone
If you don't use etherpad, you can ignore this message.
We will *delete all pads after 1st March 2026*! If you need any of
your pads, please make a local backup. We will not be able to recover
the data after 1st March.
The pad cleanup helps to reduce the size of the database and the
footprint on our infrastructure. After the cleanup, etherpad can still
be used for real-time collaboration but please do not expect long term
storage. Additional cleanups might happen after that unannounced.
See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415237 for more information.
Greetings and thank you
Jelto
Hi,
It seems we never purged EtherPad?
My former team (platform engineering) took notes there and since we were
aware EtherPad was not a permanent store we copy/pasted the text to
mediawiki.org.
Then not everyone was aware of the ephemeral state of EtherPad. In the
early days it has been used for note keeping during various events and
meetings. https://www.mediawiki.org/ shows plenty of articles pointing
to EtherPad which would indicate their content were not transferred
toward permanent storage. Or maybe they were and the left over pad got
changed with a link to the wiki page.
I understand there has been no promise to keep the pads permanently,
then I am not sure people were necessarily aware. I also understand the
challenge of having to support for a huge database table and it is very
legitimate to get rid of it.
However, I am concerned about the lost of history which might be
valuable for history of the movement. Would it be possible to generate
a static dump of those pads similar to what we did when phasing
Extension:CodeReview? Though there might be privacy concerns since some
pads were not necessarily intended to be public :-\ Or maybe I am
just a data hoarder and like to have archive kept.
Antoine "hashar" Musso
Wikimedia Release Engineering
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