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Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)
13:33, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Family names and disambiguation pages
- In fiwiki, lists of people with the same family name are frequently included in disambiguation pages.
- In enwiki, these are sometimes on a separate surname article.
Sample: Q7865595 and Q28146213 for "Elomaa".
It seems that some users of fiwiki want interwikis to the English Wikipedia article, even if they aren't disambiguation pages.
There are two ways to do this:
- One adds a local (old-style) interwiki to the fiwiki disambiguation page. This would have to be repeated for each page.
- One adapts the template Template:Interwikis from P1889 (family names) (Q56475678) and adds it to fi:Template:Täsmennyssivu. This way all disambiguation pages would get such interwiki links.
Note: This is just an outline of possible uses of Wikidata items and statements. Obviously, it's a question for fiwiki editors if they want to apply it. --- Jura 08:33, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Stryn: Did you note the above? BTW, I don't edit fiwiki. --- Jura 16:55, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
- Nope, I have not been very active here lately and didn't see your message before. What is Template:Interwikis from P1889 (family names) and did you do it and separating these surname pages without any discussion? Stryn (talk) 17:08, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
- I didn't separate any surname pages. I just removed sitelinks to articles about surnames from items for disambiguation pages. The template is something you can use on fiwiki if you want disambiguation pages to link to surname articles. --- Jura 17:11, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
- Nope, I have not been very active here lately and didn't see your message before. What is Template:Interwikis from P1889 (family names) and did you do it and separating these surname pages without any discussion? Stryn (talk) 17:08, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
A RFC has been proposed on changes to various administrator and user conduct policies including edit warring, page protection, involved administrators, and interface administrators. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 23 September 2018 (UTC) (for Rschen7754)