User talk:Guillom

Wikimedia maintenance notice
Hi. Wikimedia maintenance notice and all of its subpages do not belong on this site. I think there's some general confusion about the purpose of this site. It's for the MediaWiki software. That's it. Meta-Wiki is much older and is the established place for inter-wiki communications such as these. Because the banner is currently up, I'm not going to forcefully move all of these pages, but they should be moved as soon as possible. --MZMcBride 16:42, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, do we have a location we can house notices that doesn't go away when the site is down? Because that would be ideal. -- ArielGlenn 16:52, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry to butt in but I thought this might be related, someone was asking earlier, if it would be possible to modify the 404 page with notices and links to an upcoming outage. Theo10011 17:05, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't imagine many people hit 404s during outages like these. It might be possible to modify some HTTP error code messages to include a link to status.wikimedia.org or something. File bugs in Bugzilla as appropriate. --MZMcBride 17:10, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * The wikitech.wikimedia.org host is supposed to be separated from the main cluster for that reason. Though I have no idea what the load spike would be from a global banner with a link, so that might be something to consider. Meta-Wiki is the most logical place among Wikimedia wikis. If the wikitech host isn't an option, the status.wikimedia.org host might also be logical. Pretty much "anywhere but here." ;-) --MZMcBride 17:10, 24 May 2011 (UTC)