On 10 December 2010 00:47, Peter Coombe thewub.wiki@googlemail.com wrote:
On 9 December 2010 23:50, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
KIZU Naoko wrote:
I've got an error message in trying to access Japanese Wikipedia. It seems long, but it's not my topic. IIRC the message from server was multilingualized years ago and we have offered the message with links to other lang same messages.
The message itself seems not changed from the past, but now it's in English and only without any links to any other language.
What happened? Who decided to remove lang links? And what is the idea behind of this removal?
Hi.
I believe you're referring to this error message: http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/&.
I remember it being multi-lingual as well. It was also enormous. I'm not sure when or why it was shortened (though my suspicion is that it was shortened because it was enormous). The planning for the message appears to have taken place here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_error_messages
Are you sure you're not thinking of this message? http://www.doxaliber.it/wp-uploads/images/wikipedia_down_big.jpg
I think you still get that one if there's a server problem, but short of getting a plane to Florida and randomly flicking switches I can't confirm that! Obviously it's good because its multilingual, but also because it has a donate link.
The 404 error you linked to (http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/&) could certainly be improved, though as far as I know it's always been like that. Absurd really, how many users who've mistyped an address are going to want a database dump?
Pete / the wub
Ah disregard the first part of my message. Gmail wasn't including the semicolon as part of your link. I copy pasted it to get the right one. Yes, I definitely remember that being multilingual as well, wonder what happened to it?
My comment about the 404 message being poor still stands though.
Pete / the wub