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David Gerard

27 Apr 2009 27 Apr '09

11:25 a.m.

I just got: This wiki has a problem Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Cannot contact the database server: No working slave server: Unknown error (10.0.2.185)) What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our most profitable product ... (I also recall there being a multilingual error page. Is this one en:wp-specific?) - d.

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Brion Vibber

27 Apr 27 Apr

12:38 p.m.

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On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:

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At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)

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(I also recall there being a multilingual error page. Is this one en:wp-specific?)

You're thinking of the squid proxy error page, which displays when the backend servers can't be reached. This is a MediaWiki internal error. -- brion

David Gerard

2:41 p.m.

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2009/4/27 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

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On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:

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> What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our > most profitable product ...

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At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)

We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic mirror not served from WMF machines ... - d.

Brion Vibber

2:49 p.m.

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On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:

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2009/4/27 Brion Vibber<brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:

> What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our > most profitable product ...

At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)

We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic mirror not served from WMF machines ...

The tricky part is having it survive the traffic. ;) -- brion

David Gerard

2:51 p.m.

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2009/4/27 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

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On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/4/27 Brion Vibber<brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

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>> At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down >> too. :)

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> We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic > mirror not served from WMF machines ...

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The tricky part is having it survive the traffic. ;)

*cough* yeah, I remember when Wikipedia downtime would immediately kill berlios.de ... - d.

Thomas Dalton

3:05 p.m.

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2009/4/27 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

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On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:

2009/4/27 Brion Vibber<brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:

> What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our > most profitable product ...

At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)

We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic mirror not served from WMF machines ...

The tricky part is having it survive the traffic. ;)

If that message is for when MediaWiki breaks, presumably that means the squids are still up and running and, obviously, they can survive the traffic. Could the squids run a simplified version of the donation software themselves? It doesn't need to have all the interesting comments and statistics and stuff that we usually have. In fact, it doesn't need much more than a link to paypal.

Casey Brown

4:17 p.m.

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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(I also recall there being a multilingual error page. Is this one en:wp-specific?)

That's a different one: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&> ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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