Provide community relations support in the Graph situation
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Erica has sent a Mass Message to Tech Village pumps per Seddon's indications.
Standing by for other needs.

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@Seddon I see something that looks like an action item for communities at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940#8813922 (Vega2 to Vega5 something something).
I'm not sure how much visibility was given to that instruction, or how many communities are actively doing anything about it. Thoughts?

I talked to Seddon, and we drafted a Tech News update for Monday's edition. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/19

@Tgr , anything that we need to communicate to the communities (via tech news or not) re: T336595 ? Thanks.

@Tgr , anything that we need to communicate to the communities (via tech news or not) re: T336595 ? Thanks.

Graph was only re-enabled on mediawiki.org, test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org so now getting disabled again there isn't really newsworthy IMO. At some point the WMF should probably give a new estimate on what we expect to be able to restore and when, but we need to revise plans first. I don't think there's an urgent need to communicate something before that.

(Although since the last Tech News did mention re-enabling on mediawiki.org, the next one should maybe mention it's disabled again due to us becoming aware of new security issues.)

Elitre lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.May 22 2023, 10:52 AM
Elitre added a subscriber: RZamora-WMF.

If there are further needs, then a new task can be opened. (Seddon to be surveyed for this one, @RZamora-WMF ).