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Larry Sanger | 2 Mar 2009 16:47

CZ back up; Write-a-Thon Wednesday

All,

The wiki is back up and snappy as usual.

But there was some downtime this morning.  We really must get the assistance
of an NFS expert to help troubleshoot this semi-regular downtime.  We're
confident the problem can be fixed, and I'm glad the downtime isn't more
frequent, but it is annoying.

In any event, the March Write-a-Thon is happening in two days!  I believe
the theme is spring cleaning.  Be there, or be dirty!

By the way, I got back yesterday from Monterrey, Mexico, where I had a good
time and spoke about "The Purposes of the Internet."  I'll try to get the
paper online sometime soon.

--Larry
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Larry Sanger | 8 Mar 2009 19:32

Write-a-Thon II wrapping up soon...

All,

Last month, the Write-a-Thon was conducted in two parts, one on Wednesday
and a "Write-a-Thon II" on Sunday.

Well, this month's Write-a-Thon II is happening right now, so if you're
late...like me...to any of the festivities, there's still time if you've got
some idle time at the end of this weekend.  I'm just about to head over to
the wiki for some long-overdue content development myself.  See you there?

--Larry

P.S. Anybody can feel free to announce the Write-a-Thon on these lists--and
while I'm on the subject, we do need another moderator for Citizendium-L!
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Larry Sanger | 13 Mar 2009 04:28

Approval milestones

Mail from Joe Quick (active citizen & member of the Executive Committee)

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Approval milestones

Citizendium is now approaching 100 approved articles!  A few more than 
that and we'll reach another milestone: 1% of our articles will be 
approved articles.

With that in mind, I'd like to ask all of our active workgroup editors 
to take a moment to consider which other articles are ready for 
approval.  (You might want to have another look at our approval 
standards: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Approval_standards)  If you 
don't feel qualified to approve the article yourself, then please 
consider inviting one or more colleagues to join the project and offer 
to help them through the process.

If you have any questions, just contact a constable or swing by my talk 
page.
Joe Quick
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Anton Sweeney | 13 Mar 2009 13:49
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Re: Approval milestones

Can I ask for some clarification on the approvals process - can an
author nominate one of their "own" articles to begin the approval
process, or should this only be done by an editor?

Regards,

Anton

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Larry Sanger
<sanger-lists <at> citizendium.org> wrote:
> Mail from Joe Quick (active citizen & member of the Executive Committee)
>
> ----
> Approval milestones
>
> Citizendium is now approaching 100 approved articles!  A few more than
> that and we'll reach another milestone: 1% of our articles will be
> approved articles.
>
> With that in mind, I'd like to ask all of our active workgroup editors
> to take a moment to consider which other articles are ready for
> approval.  (You might want to have another look at our approval
> standards: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Approval_standards)  If you
> don't feel qualified to approve the article yourself, then please
> consider inviting one or more colleagues to join the project and offer
> to help them through the process.
>
> If you have any questions, just contact a constable or swing by my talk
> page.
> Joe Quick
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Larry Sanger | 14 Mar 2009 00:18

Re: Approval milestones

My understanding is that at present, only editors can nominate articles and
thereby begin the approval process.  Of course, authors are free to ask
editors to approve or support an article for approval.

We've discussed ways to expand the system at various times in the past but
this has never elicited a definite proposal to the Editorial Council.

--Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anton Sweeney [mailto:anton.sweeney <at> gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 8:50 AM
> To: Citizendium general project announcement list
> Cc: Citizendium editors announcement list
> Subject: Re: [Citizendium-l] Approval milestones
> 
> 
> Can I ask for some clarification on the approvals process - 
> can an author nominate one of their "own" articles to begin 
> the approval process, or should this only be done by an editor?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anton
> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Larry Sanger 
> <sanger-lists <at> citizendium.org> wrote:
> > Mail from Joe Quick (active citizen & member of the Executive 
> > Committee)
> >
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Larry Sanger | 19 Mar 2009 14:32

Wiki back up

All,

We had 5-6 hours of downtime last night, but are back up.  I'm sorry for the
inconvenience.  Someday soon we'll have to hire someone to investigate what
the problem is.

--Larry
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Greg Sabino Mullane | 19 Mar 2009 15:35
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Seems to be nfs again:

Mar 19 03:38:49 locke -- MARK --
Mar 19 03:40:06 locke kernel: nfs: server augustus.citizendium.org not responding, still trying
Mar 19 03:40:38 locke last message repeated 14 times

Mar 19 03:40:25 reid -- MARK --
Mar 19 03:40:30 reid kernel: nfs: server augustus.citizendium.org not responding, still trying
Mar 19 03:40:52 reid last message repeated 15 times

Nothing in augustus - no problems as far as it was concerned. I found no early morning
cronjobs that might be causing this. It would be nice to catch it and debug from
locke or reid when this happens. It's possible a simple 'mount' command on both
would fix things without the reboot.

The system load was at about 50% until 3:40, at which point it dropped off to 0.
That could be about right: with nfs down, the wiki is down and the box has nothing
to do at that point except server error messages. I could not find any other clues.
Might be worth asking our ISP if they do any backups or other heavy work at
3:40 AM their time (Central).

Jason, do we have Nagios installed anywhere? If not, I'll look at adding it in,
probably to voltaire.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg <at> turnstep.com
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