It seems that its related to the migration of our main services to the new data center <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center> in Virginia, USA.
The wiki will be down for at least an hour if things go smoothly, possibly longer if things go wrong :) Seddon On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Joseph Seddon <[email protected]>wrote: > ed seem like the wiki is in read only mode..... what poor timing by > myself/the wiki. > > Ill let you guys know when I know more. > > Seddon > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Ilario Valdelli <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I would translate but I receive the message that the website is in a >> read-only mode. >> >> Is there something that I should do before? >> >> >> On 22.01.2013 18:37, Joseph Seddon wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> So I wanted to do two things, firstly a brief keeping you guys in the >> loop on the state of the international fundraiser and what to expect over >> the coming months. >> >> As many of you may know from the metric's meetings and emails to the >> wikimedia-l list last november, the plan is to shift from the big push >> annual fundraiser to a more subtle, lower impact year round fundraiser. >> This is going to be happening over the coming months and I am sure that >> more details about how exactly this will happen will appear in time. >> >> With regards to the international portion of the 12/13 fundraiser, we >> intend to restart testing in the top ten languages in the coming weeks, >> with the remainder of languages following later on. This means that you >> will start seeing translation requests coming in somewhat regularly over >> the coming months. Most of work that was done will still be used so nothing >> has gone to waste but there is a greatly expanded thank you portion to the >> fundraiser featuring numerous editors from all backgrounds that will >> require alot of work. >> >> We are going to aim to try and keep a torrent of notifications from >> being sent out so some will be sent out in batches via a bot as well as >> through this mailing list to at least reduce some of the annoyance. >> >> If you have any questions feel free to ask here or email me. >> >> The final thing I wanted to ask is I could really do with some *Italian >> *translations for this request: >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&taction=translate&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FDrop+down+banner&language=it&limit=100&task=view >> >> Italian is going to be the first of the big languages to undergo a big >> testing phase. >> >> Thank you :) >> >> -- >> -- >> >> Joseph Seddon >> >> Fundraiser Translation Coordinator >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Translators-l mailing >> [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Ilario Valdelli >> Wikimedia CH >> Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens >> Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre >> Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera >> Switzerland - 8008 Zürich >> Tel: +41764821371http://www.wikimedia.ch >> >> > > > -- > -- > > Joseph Seddon > > Fundraiser Translation Coordinator > Wikimedia Foundation > -- -- Joseph Seddon Fundraiser Translation Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
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