On 18/01/12 14:14, Daniel Friesen wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:05:32 -0800, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
On 17/01/12 22:52, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
but I wondered if there is a more wiki-specific message to use that anybody might have prepared.
Also, as was noted at wikitech-l:
It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine.
Maybe just a redirect to en.wikipedia.org in the server conf or .htaccess???
I have now done it by temporarily replacing index.php with the file found at
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/index.php_blackout
This short file has an easy-to-modify text and sends a 503 response as suggested by Google. Feel free to use it. The result can be seen at:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/
Markus
That's pretty unnecessary. Using the BeforeInitialize hook is good enough.
Thanks, that would also do the trick. I don't think it makes a big difference in practice to be honest (either you upload/rename a file, or you upload/edit a file; I found the former to be simpler). But the hook would be a much nicer solution if one wanted to add more features and make this into a kind of extension ... I leave this to others :-)
Markus