[Wikipedia-l] Re: Scheduled global downtime

[Anthere]

ultrablue at gmail.com a écrit:
> Sorry I couldn't actually throw together the multilingual page, but I
> was studying for exams and will be for the next couple of weeks. 

Hi

Do not worry. Exams are more important.

But
> once that's finished, I want to get back on track and complete putting
> together multilingual server error messages. I don't think it's
> acceptable on a site as multilingual as Wikipedia (and the other
> Wikimedia projects too) to only give English language error messages.
> I was hoping to get some help scripting a page with mechanics similar
> to the Wikipedia preferences page, whereby clicking a link changes the
> content, but where the content still displays correctly on older
> browsers. I started doing this about a month ago, but other things got
> in the way. We would have to decide which languages to include. In my
> semi-working prototype, I included only the top 5 languages, which I
> think were English, French, German, Swedish and Japanese. If we
> include too many languages, we run a risk of placing extra strain on
> the servers because the file size will inflate. Anyway, tell me what
> you think of my idea.

Sounds good. I cant judge myself on the extra strain, but the more 
languages we can cover the better. Note that this is as much a technical 
issue than a translation issue :-)

But thanks a lot for doing this Mark. It will be much appreciated.

Ant

> ~Mark Ryan
> 
> On 6/8/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>ultrablue at gmail.com a écrit:
>>
>>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean you're shifting the
>>>servers across the street at 3AM? That's got to look suspicious :-)
>>>
>>>If you're setting up a downtime page on the Paris squids, I recommend
>>>not including a link to Openfacts.berlios.de. Every time Wikipedia has
>>>even a mild downtime (i.e. about 3 minutes or less) that site gets
>>>overwhelmed and goes down itself. I don't think it's fair on whoever
>>>owns that site.
>>
>>Well, your wishes were obeyed. The Paris squids showed to everyone
>>accessing wikipedia, that we again had a crash, were trying to fix it,
>>and would be back soon.
>>
>>It was not a maintenance page which was shown, but a crash page.
>>Not sure it is exactly good for our image.
>>
>>Ant
>>
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