Last modified: 2014-10-24 14:52:12 UTC
Specifically because of this: http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia%27s_sister_projects The icons come from upload.wikimedia.org Same issue other places as well, eg: http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Hurricane_Celeste_%281972%29 which loads the acrobat.gif from upload.wikimedia.org
See also bug 37245 (previous version of this bug)
Oh, that's smarter than I thought... So, if the file is available on upload.beta, the it's served from there. If it isn't, it fails over to upload.wikimedia? Not bad. Renaming bug and resetting priority to clarify the new goal :) The ideal (something like): 1. Define a set of pages that are high use in (auto/manual) testing 2. Detect (daily?) any image loads from those pages that are from production 3. Fetch them from production and put them into beta cluster
We do have instant commons and the foreignApi backend file system of doom. So in theory all images are looked locally on beta cluster, then on beta commons and finally on the production commons.