Task: Find a way to warn editors that the server switch is happening any minute now
Idea: Can we do this only when people click 'Edit' (or preview or save or otherwise take an edit-related action), rather than using a sitenotice?
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Krinkle | T129257 Set expectations with community about planned and possible impact of switchover | |||
| Resolved | • Whatamidoing-WMF | T129387 Inform communities about the planned outage caused by the codfw server change | |||
| Resolved | • Whatamidoing-WMF | T128836 Provide last-minute on-wiki warnings to editors that the site may be down for a few minutes |
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I was thinking wgReadOnly but it only blocks off the web interface and not the api or extensions by the looks
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James A ran the Generic Maintenance Notice (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Generic_maintenance_notice) for the five-minute read-only test on 15 March 2016.
We're working on plans for the switchover in mid-April.
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Here's the link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-codfwMaintenanceSwitchover
Translations are happening now.
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The link will point to the blog post once up, it doesn't at the moment just because I don't have that link yet and wanted to get it up and translatable.
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Thanks, link updated
James Alexander
Manager
Trust & Safety
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
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One report of an editor at the German Wikipedia not seeing this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_Wikipedia#Alle_Wikis_gehen_gleich_in_Read-Only-Modus_.E2.80.93_keine_Ank.C3.BCndigung.3F
It may be due to a script/gadget that suppresses such notices.
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Later in that thread another user states that
many users do not hide the element div#centralNotice which (simplified) is used for "WMF banners" but instead the entire element div#siteNotice which is also used for MediaWiki:Sitenotice.
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We ran CentralNotices:
- for logged-in users with the codfwMaintenanceSwitchover-LoggedIN campaign from 12:00 to 13:50 UTC (2 hours before the maintenance).
- for logged-out users with the codfwMaintenanceSwitchover-LoggedOUT campaign from 13:00 to 13:50 UTC (1 hour before the maintenance
- for all users, the General Maintenance Notice from 13:50 UTC until manually turned off when editing was re-enabled (default expiration of 15:30 UTC).