On 9 December 2010 23:50, MZMcBride <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
