Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-04-03/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Ral315, 3 April 2006

Last week in servers

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

  • March 28 — All wikis updated to add the new "ss_images" database field
  • March 29 — srv54, srv71-80 brought into Apache service
  • March 30 — lomaria and thistle ran behind in replication; thistle removed from rotation
  • March 31 — Mailman briefly shut down to edit archives
  • April 2 — English Wikipedia dump restarted; it had stopped due to a database error


Also this week: Bureaucrats resignApril Fools'News and notesPress coverageFeatures and adminsB.R.I.O.N.T.R.O.L.L.