Kate Turner wrote:
Timwi wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
I've noticed several errors on the downtime message page and its translations. Once the servers are back up and the admins are no longer busy with the upgrade, where can I go to fix them?
what are the errors?
I don't want to post a message here every time I find an error, I want to GO AND FIX IT the way we ALWAYS DO in Wikimedia land. Please understand that!
you can't fix them without local server access, because unlike the portal pages, these pages are not taken from meta, as meta is not up when the downtime message is shown :-)
Please put them on meta (or indeed any other wiki) and update the copies that actually get shown periodically.
Either way, DO NOT, like, EVER, rely on people e-mailing you (or this list or IRC or anything else). Neither with error corrections nor with new translations. You will never get them that way.
The downtime message was beautiful, but it was still hugely embarrassing because it was so full of mistakes and unprofessionalities. This is *not* the right way to get people to stop believing we're a bunch of amateur rowdies.
Timwi