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?
Also, I've checked yesterday and noticed that the word "Wikimedia" is *still* misspelt on the "Wiki doesn't exist" page. Where can I edit that?
Thanks, Timwi
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?
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 :-)
Thanks, Timwi
kate.
what are the errors?
Maybe it is a feature, maybe it is a well-known bug, but the "please check back" link leads to something like http://wikimedia.org/errors/English/http://etc.
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Petr Kadlec wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
what are the errors?
Maybe it is a feature, maybe it is a well-known bug, but the "please check back" link leads to something like http://wikimedia.org/errors/English/http://etc.
you shouldn't be seeing this message at all at the moment, it's one of the squid errors...
it should probably be fixed at some point when the site is working, though :)
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
kate.
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
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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?
No downtime message pages being received here for '''en''': I'm getting the standard "Error: the requested URL could not be retrieved" messages from "mayflower.knams.wikimedia.org".
Oddly '''meta''' is behaving properly and giving me the nice message: what's up there?
BTW, what's "knams"? some strange acronym?
Phil Boswell wrote:
No downtime message pages being received here for '''en''': I'm getting the standard "Error: the requested URL could not be retrieved" messages from "mayflower.knams.wikimedia.org".
Oddly '''meta''' is behaving properly and giving me the nice message: what's up there?
Probably DNS propagation issues, the TTL wasn't set low in time.
BTW, what's "knams"? some strange acronym?
KennisNet cluster, AMSterdam.
Phil Boswell wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
No downtime message pages being received here for '''en''': I'm getting the standard "Error: the requested URL could not be retrieved" messages from "mayflower.knams.wikimedia.org".
Oddly '''meta''' is behaving properly and giving me the nice message: what's up there?
your DNS cache seems wrong... it should have changed the IP several hours ago. (the current IP should be 145.97.39.132, fuchsia.knams.wikimedia.org)
BTW, what's "knams"? some strange acronym?
KennisNet, AMSterdam.
(pmtpa = PowerMedium, TamPA; lopar = Lost-Oasis, PARis).
kate.
The same for German - I'd like to correct this.
Please let us know.
Ciao, Sabine
Timwi wrote:
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?
Also, I've checked yesterday and noticed that the word "Wikimedia" is *still* misspelt on the "Wiki doesn't exist" page. Where can I edit that?
Thanks, Timwi
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How/where can I send the italian translation of the message?
Ciao, Frieda
On 6/7/05, Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella@yahoo.it wrote:
The same for German - I'd like to correct this.
Please let us know.
Ciao, Sabine
Timwi wrote:
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?
Also, I've checked yesterday and noticed that the word "Wikimedia" is *still* misspelt on the "Wiki doesn't exist" page. Where can I edit that?
Thanks, Timwi
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Is it posible to translate text on wikipedialogo background? ("Wikipedia is a Web-based free...")
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Kate Turner wrote:
Frieda Brioschi wrote:
How/where can I send the italian translation of the message?
either tell someone on IRC (#wikimedia-tech) or mail it to me privately (keturner@livejournal.com).
Wrong answer. Bad answer.
Correct answer would have been: "I'll set up a page on meta for this."
Timwi
Kate Turner wrote:
Timwi wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
Correct answer would have been: "I'll set up a page on meta for this."
it's a wiki. don't whine about it, do it yourself.
How do I do that without any access to the actual downtime message?
Timwi wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
Kate Turner wrote:
Timwi wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
Correct answer would have been: "I'll set up a page on meta for this."
it's a wiki. don't whine about it, do it yourself.
How do I do that without any access to the actual downtime message?
create a page on meta and say "here is a page on meta with translations". (preferably, say this somewhere where someone with CVS access will see it.)
kate.
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