Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Hello,
Last week xirzon proposed to separate the chat traffic for the mediawiki
software and the one for wikipedia servers. The idea was :
#mediawiki : mediawiki software development and support
#wikitech : wikipedia specific issues and servers support
I personally find its a good idea. Users asking for support in
#mediawiki often found their question flooded by wikipedia's servers
administrators :o)
We could also get a bot that post cvs commit to #mediawiki since the
traffic will be lowered (or maybe #mediawiki-cvs could feat this better).
I may have been tired, irritable and stressed at the time, but I seem to
remember voting with my feet on this proposal. MediaWiki developers
should be interested in Wikipedia server administration and similarly
it's hard to talk about Wikipedia server administration without getting
onto the subject of the only significant thing those servers do. People
asking for support regarding MediaWiki issues may at least know why they
are being ignored, if they see a room full of frantic discussion about a
server crash rather than simply a lack of response.
-- Tim Starling