Server (temporarily) down
Apologies but yep the wiki was unreachable for several hours this morning. I don’t know what the cause was. Probably it was somehow related to our recent (labor-intensive) upgrade to the most recent MediaWiki version. Thanks greatly to Greg Sabino Mullane and Steadfast Networks for getting it back up.
In the future, if necessary, you’ll be able to find notes about server outages here, on this blog, or (if the blog is down, too) Citizendium-L (which is hosted by Purdue — partly for reasons of redundancy). If there is an outage and nothing has appeared in either of those places, then please assume we don’t know about the outage yet, and report it. I was offline this morning (writing), so I didn’t catch this until late, and people no doubt just assumed I knew about it and that I was working on it…but I didn’t and I wasn’t!
In case of emergencies, feel free to e-mail bugs@citizendium.org. If you just have an ordinary bug report or feature request, however, please use the Trac system.
When I saw that the 3000 article milestone had been reached I went to the “CZ Live” page to see the range of topics. Unfortunately, the “next 400″ link wasn’t working. As suggested in this post, I reported the bug on the Trac system. Today the problem was still present, so I tried to check the entry in the system, but Trac seems to have gone offline. Kaput!
Comment by Mojo — October 9, 2007 @ 3:36 am
Sorry about that. This has been reported by many people by now…hopefully the tech guys will fix it soon. Personally, I can’t replicate the bug (I have no problem seeing the next 400), so perhaps it’s already fixed.
Comment by Larry Sanger — October 9, 2007 @ 5:02 am