Thinking about it...when Wikipedia was down yesterday, only the english wikipedia displayed a red message saying it was not editable, but allowed read only. On the french wikipedia, it was just and that was all. No warning message saying "well, guys, sorry, we are trying to fix the stuff" and not even read-only wikipedia.
I don't know if this is due to the existence of the two servers and if it would have been possible that the fr wikipedia be read only as well.
If it is possible, could it be that we switch to read only mode and alert message as well, instead of just letting people wondering why the whole site is not working at all ?
Sorry if I just don't understand the organisation of that at all. I just think it is real bad that people just don't know what is going on.
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