On 10 December 2010 00:47, Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 9 December 2010 23:50, MZMcBride
<z(a)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