Me - no. Readers who didn't know - yes. Wikipedia going down without a temporary explanation page is roughly of the same scale as apple.com going down with no explanation, google.com going down with no explanation, microsoft.com going down with no explanation, and so on.
"Top 5 website" means we have that kind of use, perception, stature -- and a similar scale of response within the general public if it suddenly doesn't work. Most members of the public do not have the insight you or I would. FT2 On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Austin Hair <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:32 AM, FT2 <[email protected]> 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? > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
