On 11/09/2007, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
The word donate links to wikimediafoundation.org Will that page be available under the circunstances under which the message is shown? (eg. s3 goes down)
Maybe, maybe not :) Quite often this error message is transitory and the site is accessible again by the time you hit 'refresh'. Ideally, the foundation server would be isolated from the others, but that's more a matter for the developers.
Someone once tried putting a donation form in the error message file itself; it's not there now so I can only assume it wasn't judged to be a good idea.
Also, all translations link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reload Not only it's not localised, but the page is a disambiguation which doesn't explain _how_ to reload a page (which is the only utility i see to link that page) The same concern for being to a internal page applies.
I only put that link to the "Reload" article there for the purposes of illustrating what would happen when you actually hit that link :) Which would be to link to the current URL, or, if Javascript is available (which is most cases), perform a page refresh (thus, hopefully, forcing browsers to give anyone who got the error message on saving a page the option to re-submit the information).
Finally, this message use to have a Donation form at the botton. Can it be translated, too?
As I said above, it's not in the currently live version of the error message, so I don't know why it was removed. If we were to include it, of course, it could be translated. But I think that would add so much text to the error message beyond what has already added to it by putting in an extra 12 or so languages as I have done. With the current text, the message is 45KB.
~Mark Ryan