Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Outage

All Wikimedia projects were briefly locked down after most users were unable to access the site. The reason, according to developer Brion Vibber, was the readvertising of Wikimedia's IP space by Cogent. [1]

As a result of the IP snafu, which occurred on Friday at about 17:30 UTC, few users (mostly AOL users) were able to access the site, while most others were blocked. Developers made the decision to put all databases into read-only mode until the route was restored around 19:55 UTC; write access was enabled shortly afterward. A new IP space was given to Wikimedia, and the old space is or will soon be unavailable. River Tarnell said that developers were looking into obtaining a permanent IP space [2].

Database changes

Three tables have been added to the MediaWiki database structure since MediaWiki 1.6. These links are meant to contain more information either untracked, or in other locations in previous releases.

Operations report released

Domas Mituzas published an operations report for November 2005 to August 2006, covering major hardware and software changes. Image hosting systems are one of the next purchases planned, after high-performance caching and application hardware and Foundry routing hardware were purchased earlier this year.

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