Sunir, thanks for the heavy lifting and all that you continue to do for the greater wiki community.  We missed doing a tenth anniversary but I think we do need a world wide wiki day. Much appreciated, John, John DeBruyn, Denver CO USA

 

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From: WikiForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WikiForum@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Sunir Shah
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:56 PM
To: wiki-research@...; meatball@yahoogroups.com; wikiforum@yahoogroups.com; Chris Purcell; caadams@...
Subject: [WikiForum] Re: MeatballWiki down temporarily

Ok, I've recovered MeatballWiki as of August 2. There is a page
to coordinate recovery efforts. This is the fastest I can work from
the road. I apologize.

Please help restore the missing pages if you can.

Best,
Sunir

On 8/17/06, Sunir Shah <sunir@...> wrote:
> Folks, Friends, Commiserates,
>
> Bad news: The server on which MeatballWiki was hosted had a system
> failure that resulted in the file system crashing, taking down the
> sites:
>
> * MeatballWiki
> * UseModWiki
> * The Design Bibliography
>
> UseModWiki and the Design Bibliography have been restored (seemingly).
> MeatballWiki's Postgres database was corrupted, and remains down for
> the moment.
>
> Good news: Chris Purcell has been working tirelessly to get it back up
> and running while I have been on vacation in India. For that, my
> deepest thanks go out to him. He has succeeded in getting a version of
> the site dated from August 2 (the last backup that succeeded)
> functioning, and we have Google cached versions of most pages edited
> subsequently (all but four English pages; we're missing the French and
> copy edited pages).
>
> We'll be flipping it live just as soon as we're sure it's safe. It
> should be ready by WikiSym, if all things go well.
>
> I'll notify you again once it's ready. Sorry for the inconvenience.
> Not the best timing, but these things happen. Thankfully we have a
> fairly recent backup.
>
> Best,
> Sunir (currently in Mumbai; I'll be in Copenhagen tomorrow.)
>