ultrablue@gmail.com wrote:
If you're setting up a downtime page on the Paris squids, I recommend not including a link to Openfacts.berlios.de. Every time Wikipedia has even a mild downtime (i.e. about 3 minutes or less) that site gets overwhelmed and goes down itself. I don't think it's fair on whoever owns that site.
Hehehe... :)
I also recommend making any downtime error page generated multilingual, by consulting the people in the other language IRC channels. If I wasn't studying for exams I'd do that myself.
Here's a preview of the downtime page Kate's been throwing together: http://fuchsia.knams.wikimedia.org/
If you've got additional translations, please e-mail them to me directly or pop in at #wikimedia-tech on irc.freenode.net; the mailing lists will probably be down during the downtime.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)