Brion Vibber wrote:
Just a heads-up; we're planning to move the
backend hosting for
Japanese, Korean, Malay, and Thai Wikipedias from our Korean server
cluster (yaseo) back to the main servers in Florida (pmtpa) later this
week.
We'll start at about 18:00 UTC Friday evening (1am Thailand, 2am
Malaysia, 3am Japan and Korea). It will take a few hours to dump the
databases, copy them, and re-import them, but if everything goes
smoothly we hope to have these wikis back to read-write sometime late
Saturday morning local time.
There will also be a brief read-only period for most of our other wikis
when we switch database servers during the import. That should last only
a few minutes, and will not affect
en.wikipedia.org (which is on a
different database server). It should be some time in late evening or
night European time.
The move is complete. With a better suggestion from Tim Starling, we were able
to reduce the read-only time to a few minutes for the general issues and about
an hour on the wikis actually being moved.
Please let us know about any unresolved problems or issues, of course.
-- brion vibber (brion @