On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:05:32 -0800, Markus Krötzsch
<mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
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
That's pretty unnecessary. Using the BeforeInitialize hook is good enough.
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