This is going off topic (sorry) but I've been wondering for a while whether
the chapters need to collaborate on a robust infrastructure for their
technology needs - to increase capacity, reduce costs and deal with
situations such as these (i.e. have expertise on hand and widely available).
At Wikimedia UK we're in the process of building a resilient
infrastructure; with the modern capability of spinning up cheap servers
behind load balancers there is no real need to have everything on a single
piece of infrastructure. And the tools exist to scale horizontally if
needed.
Tom
On 14 April 2013 15:15, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>wrote;wrote:
Am 14.04.2013 16:12, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
Maybe the first, but in such cases usually the
best is learning to link
only a Wikimedia project page from the sitenotice or centralnotice.
Notices get a lot of random clicks, few are interested in proceeding to
the server where the meat is. Moreover, on our wikis we can use the
Translate extension.
I think this common sense rule may be added to
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Usage_guidelines>. Only
destinations tested for the load should be linked.
Thanks Frederico.
Done right it is really no issue. WLM 2011 was not problem, neither
Wikimania 2011 and WikiCon 2012.
But directly linking CMSes and MediaWiki sites from Central Notice are
not a good idea. A quick notification would have helped to do it right.
The lack of notification in conjunction with weekend and people being
away from their computers is a bad combination.
/Manuel
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