On 17/01/12 22:52, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Krötzsch wrote: >> but I wondered if there is a more wiki-specific message to use that >> anybody might have prepared. >> >> Also, as was noted at wikitech-l: >> >> > It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP >> > code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine. >> > Maybe just a redirect to en.wikipedia.org in the server conf or .htaccess???
I have now done it by temporarily replacing index.php with the file found at http://semantic-mediawiki.org/index.php_blackout This short file has an easy-to-modify text and sends a 503 response as suggested by Google. Feel free to use it. The result can be seen at: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/ Markus _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
