Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-27/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Ral315, 27 February 2006

Last week in servers

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

• February 21 — srv38 restarted to stop segfaults
• February 21 — sq9 assigned an external ip, taking over Wikimedia image squid duty
• February 22 — All remaining Wiktionaries set $wgCapitalLinks to off, pages moved to lowercase lettering as necessary
• February 23 — Search indexes resynced
• February 24 — Old files removed from benet due to space restrictions
• February 26 — Mailing lists moved from zwinger to goeje
• February 26 — OTRS moved from ragweed to goeje
• February 27 — $wgThumbnailEpoch updated to allow missized images to rerender

Also this week: Millionth article preparations — Office actions — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.