Wikipedia talk:Downtime
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This is being discussed here for now.
Reason for this page: I for one find it very strange for there to be no obvious recognition of downtime on the site after it happens: either it's completely broken or it's whiter than white. We now have error pages (which is handy) and a reasonably obscure page detailing what happened but that's all. This page - although this is completely open for discussion - is meant to just be a recognition of downtime and (almost) nothing else. Things I think would be useful additions are:
- A rough estimation of the downtime period;
- Either a one sentence reason of the cause, or a link to discussion about what actually happened (ie. the village pump (technical) - right?);
- The scale of the downtime: did it affect just one US state, everyone, etc?
An idea (to prevent the page being used for random status comments) could be to have the most recent downtime 'note' on Special:Statistics and then each of those can be moved to the article page, making it an archive of past downtimes. - Drrngrvy 16:07, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Formatting ideas
(as simple as)
- <time> <duration> <reason>
