Delirium wrote:
While I agree with the at-least-15-minutes notice, I
actually have the
opposite complaint about this one (can't please everyone, eh?). The
outage is scheduled for 1800 UTC on June 11, and has been up since at
least 1700 UTC on June 10. Do we really need a 25-hour notice on every
wiki page?
It was actually put up at around 18:10 UTC (I was there at the time).
YES, we DO need a 24-hour notice. Different users are from different
time zones and use Wikipedia at different times of the day.
It seems that the disruption of having this
red-outlined
warning at the top for over a day is actually more than the disruption
of having the wiki be down for a mere 30 minutes.
Pardon? What disruption? Wikipedia is functioning perfect even with that
message at the top. If you don't want to have it displayed, add
#siteNotice { display: none; }
to your [[User:Yourusername/monobook.css]].
A previous downtime
had such a message up for nearly three days, if I recall correctly.
I think you're exaggerating. :)
Would perhaps putting it up 3-5 hours or so before
scheduled downtime be
a decent compromise?
No. Absolutely not. People get frustrated very easily when Wikipedia is
down and they have not been informed of a planned downtime. And it is
entirely common for someone to stop using Wikipedia for a mere 5 hours!
Greetings,
Timwi