Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-03-06/Technology report

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Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Ral315, 6 March 2006

Last week in servers

Server-related events, problems, and changes included:

  • March 1 — srv54 accidentally rebooted, causing five minutes of downtime
  • March 1 — wgEmailAuthentication enabled (see related story)
  • March 2 — goeje (e-mail server) set to sync files daily to another server
  • March 3 — New language queues added on OTRS system
  • March 4 — Upload errors on certain languages fixed
  • March 4 — Trouble with math functions fixed
  • March 6 — goeje temporarily down, restarted


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