Mark Ryan wrote:
On 11/09/2007, Platonides 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.
I know. Would only be unavailable on big problems. Nonetheless, I have seen the devs pestering on irc "Why do we link on an error message to a place we know won't be available when the message shows". I wanted to bring this up.
Maybe we should point to a static foundationwiki copy on the toolserver? It's easy to do and unaffected by pmtpa errors.
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.
/me removes the donation section query. I think it was added to overcome the "The links to donate don't work".
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).
That explains it. I have added a note to the page on meta. Thanks