Pavol Cupka wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc:
Hi,
Why not include all languages that would translate the error message? Is it really that much of a performance hog?
for something as trivial as the downtime page, which is mostly static content with some translated strings, i don't think it should be a problem. yesterday, we served the downtime page for every wiki from a single server (dual 2.2GHz Opteron) with about 15% CPU load.
Could also maybe a rewrite role be applied for example when someone tries to reach
sk.wikipedia.org he would get sk.wikipedia.org/?lang=sk and so on for other langs with fall back to en
currently it uses the Accept-Language to decide what language to serve. if that isn't specified, or is "en", it should be possible to use the Host header to decide the language... i'll have a look at implementing that.
kate.