Re: [Wikitech-l] "This wiki has a problem" error page lacks beg notice

[Casey Brown]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Gerard  wrote:
> (I also recall there being a multilingual error page. Is this one
> en:wp-specific?)
>

That's a different one:  ;-)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] "This wiki has a problem" error page lacks beg notice

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/4/27 Brion Vibber :
> On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>> 2009/4/27 Brion Vibber:
>>> 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.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] "This wiki has a problem" error page lacks beg notice

[David Gerard]

2009/4/27 Brion Vibber :
> On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>> 2009/4/27 Brion Vibber:

>>> 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. ;)


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


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Re: [Wikitech-l] "This wiki has a problem" error page lacks beg notice

[Brion Vibber]

On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/4/27 Brion Vibber:
>> 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. ;)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] "This wiki has a problem" error page lacks beg notice

[David Gerard]

2009/4/27 Brion Vibber :
> 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 ...


- d.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] "This wiki has a problem" error page lacks beg notice

[Brion Vibber]

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

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

> (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.

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[Wikitech-l] "This wiki has a problem" error page lacks beg notice

[David Gerard]

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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