Austin, That's interesting, what was the wording for the maintenance message? I only ever saw the default "our servers are experiencing a technical problem" error page.
Tom On 25 May 2011 10:53, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:32 AM, FT2 <ft2.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't get this. > > > > Would it be possible in future, if the sites are unresponsive, or will be > > unresponsive due to planned maintenance, to establish a fallback that > simply > > displays an explanatory status message to the public? > > Would it have changed anything for you? > > I tried to load Wikipedia a few times during the downtime, and a > maintenance error actually did appear most of the time. I did get a > few database errors, but I assumed that I wasn't the first to notice > and that someone was diligently working on it. > > Regardless, my action was the same as it would have been in any case: > try back later. > > Austin > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l