On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Eddie Greiner-Petter < wikimedia....@eddie-sh.de> wrote:
> That reminds me that we noticed during switch to codfw that the message > shown when trying to really edit a page (the mediawiki read-only > message) contains: > > The system administrator who locked it offered this explanation: > MediaWiki is in read-only mode for maintenance. Please try again in a > few minutes > > which isn't quite informative. Is there a task for changing the "offered > explanation" part? Some hint about the DC switch (and maybe a link to > the meta page) would be better. The read-only messages are controlled by these strings: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/wmf-config/db-codfw.php;a65f35adbc9d2c8c9a85e956a64661783d2c973d$645 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/wmf-config/db-eqiad.php;a65f35adbc9d2c8c9a85e956a64661783d2c973d$664 I think with the pressure of keeping everything up, plus discussing internally if we should declare a specific amount of time (given it doesn't auto-update) we ended up a very generic message. We are, however, looking at showing better error messages like on the ticket I reported at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163455#3199813 Please send a pull request or file a new ticket on Phabricator with the #operations and #codfw-rollout tags with a proposal and we can definitely change it by Wednesday. Thanks, -- Jaime Crespo <http://wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l