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Server troubles

ShoutWiki would like to apologize to all of our users, readers and editors for the problems we’ve been having the past few weeks. We deeply regret any inconvenience that was caused by the problems we had with our server. Below you’ll find a short summary of what happened and what we are doing to prevent this from happening in the future.

The server problems occurred at the worst possible time, when the staff member who provides the server for us was on vacation. Since he is the only person who has physical access to the server we were unable to determine what the problem was and more importantly, we could not fix the problem. We attempted to get the site and IRC server back online remotely, and were successful, for a while. Eventually the problem occurred again and the server went down again. Without physical access to the server we were unable to get it back, until now.

We have always planned to expand and get another server that would serve as a backup in a situation such as this. However, due to various reasons we have not been able to make this a reality yet. We will now look into accelerating those plans as soon as possible. Thank you for using ShoutWiki!

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Technical

Weekly code changes, week 28

The following is a summary of code changes we did during week 28 (July 12-July 18) of 2010, and which were deployed on July 19, 2010 14:00 UTC.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug in MediaWikiAuth extension related to e-mail address and real name importing
  • Fixed a PHP parse error in Pig Latin (en-piglatin) internationalization file

As always, if you find any bugs, please don’t hesitate to report them to us by using our bug tracker (Bugzilla).