Ha, the blackout is a javascript powered blackout.
No reason to bother text browser users, they won't notice the disruption
in the first place!
Please don't remove $wgSiteNotice from Mediawiki.
It's the only way we
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family
administrators can with one edit to LocalSettings.php put a notice on
our many wikis, without editing each MediaWiki:Sitenotice etc. database
changing operations.
DG>
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
That table looks horrible in text browsers.