Hi, On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Peter Coombe <thewub.w...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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.
Good point! >> >> 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. And thank you for noticing me/us it's somehow weird. Without the entity "&" it works - so we might find two things to fix. I'll later file the bug on the entity related thing, it seems a pure technical thing and need to dig up further here. > 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 > -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
