On 10 December 2010 00:47, Peter Coombe <thewub.w...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 9 December 2010 23:50, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: >> KIZU Naoko wrote: >>> I've got an error message in trying to access Japanese Wikipedia. It >>> seems long, but it's not my topic. >>> IIRC the message from server was multilingualized years ago and we >>> have offered the message with links to other lang >>> same messages. >>> >>> The message itself seems not changed from the past, but now it's in >>> English and only without any links to any other language. >>> >>> What happened? Who decided to remove lang links? And what is the idea >>> behind of this removal? >> >> Hi. >> >> I believe you're referring to this error message: >> <http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/&>. >> >> I remember it being multi-lingual as well. It was also enormous. I'm not >> sure when or why it was shortened (though my suspicion is that it was >> shortened because it was enormous). The planning for the message appears to >> have taken place here: >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_error_messages >> > > Are you sure you're not thinking of this message? > http://www.doxaliber.it/wp-uploads/images/wikipedia_down_big.jpg > > I think you still get that one if there's a server problem, but short > of getting a plane to Florida and randomly flicking switches I can't > confirm that! Obviously it's good because its multilingual, but also > because it has a donate link. > > The 404 error you linked to (http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/&) could > certainly be improved, though as far as I know it's always been like > that. Absurd really, how many users who've mistyped an address are > going to want a database dump? > > Pete / the wub >
Ah disregard the first part of my message. Gmail wasn't including the semicolon as part of your link. I copy pasted it to get the right one. Yes, I definitely remember that being multilingual as well, wonder what happened to it? My comment about the 404 message being poor still stands though. Pete / the wub _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l