User:Stephane Lo Presti/News/2014-13-03

Update about our work on the availability issues and ability for the GW2 wikis to use NPC audio - March 13, 2014

Hi,

I've got a quick update on the availability issues I posted about yesterday. We're not so sure now that image upload is a probable cause, because the issue occured when there was no image upload. For reference, the issues we've seen on our graphs occured on the following occasions (for about 10 minutes except today):

• Tuesday 11 March at around 12:30PM (Pacific Time)
• Tuesday 11 March at around 1:30PM (Pacific Time)
• Wednesday 12 March at around 8:30AM (Pacific Time)
• Wednesday 12 March at around 9:30AM (Pacific Time)
• Wednesday 12 March at around 1PM (Pacific Time)
• Wednesday 12 March at around 1:45PM (Pacific Time)
• Wednesday 12 March at around 3PM (Pacific Time)
• Thursday 13 March at around 7:30AM (Pacific Time)

We're going to make a quick configuration change on a part of the wiki backend to see if it alleviates this problem. This change will happen today at 4PM (Pacific Time) and should only affect people using the wikis for a very brief time. If you do see issues, please report them to us on our social medias Twitter, Facebook or Google+.

I also got a good news for all the GW2 wikis. Following a request from the French wiki, we can announce that all the GW2 wikis can now use audio from the NPC dialogues directly on the wiki (they shouldn't contain any music though). Here's an example:

fr:Journal_de_Scarlet_Bruyère#Lire

We'll probably be installing an extension to facilitate this at some point in the future (we'll look into that once Semantic MediaWiki and MediaWiki are updated).

Thanks.