Tim Starling wrote:
Timwi wrote:
Do we have to expose this detail to non-technical users? The above user clearly knew a fair bit about IPs, and the message was still meaningless to them; imagine what an average non-technical user might think.
We have detailed error messages so that sysadmins can debug problems when users report them.
I've switched it to automatically cycle to the next server if the first one doesn't respond; if all three fail it'll now print out:
"There was a problem with the wiki search. This is probably temporary; try again in a few moments, or you can search the wiki through an external search service:" [followed by the google and yahoo search forms]
(This is localizable and configurable as MediaWiki:Lucenefallback)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)