[Wikipedia-l] Re: Server down message

Thu Jun 10 18:45:37 UTC 2004

Timwi wrote:
> 
> The next time someone puts up a "server down" message, please could you 
> be a little bit more professional? Currently it reads:
> 
>     wiki will be down for approximately 30 minute, please excuse the
>     interruption
> 
> What are visitors supposed to think of that?!
> 
> I'm particularly annoyed by the fact that there seems to be nobody that 
> I can contact about these things. I asked on IRC who put up the message 
> and was told it is shaihulud. So I asked him to change it, but he 
> deferred me to someone else who shall remain unnamed. That someone 
> started telling me they had been spewing in the toilet. WTF?
> 
> Why can't we simply have a Wiki-editable server down message that will 
> be used automatically? In particular, it should be a different one on 
> each different language Wikipedia. :-p
> 
> Thanks,
> Timwi

This has already been suggested.

And done.

And advertised during one month on meta goings-on : 
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goings-on/May_2004

You may find the page here
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_outage_message

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