Last modified: 2009-01-31 19:51:02 UTC
Message "Wikipedia has a problem Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Can't contact the database server: Unknown error (10.0.0.101))" is in english only. This is major bug: this message shows regardless of which wikipedia you want to see: spanish, french, german, polish... Error message in language our users don't understand is not helpfull at all. It must be localised, or - if this is impossible - given in all major wikipedia languages (as on wikipedia.org web page)
The problem is apparently that if you localize the message, you have to get the localized message from the database. But you can't access the database, which is why you get the error message. According to an anonymous developer in Database.php lines 96-7: # I give up, Brion is right. Getting the message cache to work when there is no DB is tricky. # Hard coding strings instead. Of course, this could probably be worked around somehow, but there's a reason for it. Still, as an interim matter it would certainly make sense to hardcode in translations for the major languages.
Isn't that what wfMsgNoDB is for?
maybe this will be helpfull: in the same time wikipedia logo appearing with this message IS localised (ie. it's polish wikipedia logo if you attempted to see polish wikipedia)
(In reply to comment #1) > The problem is apparently that if you localize the message, you have to get the > localized message from the database. Only the default language of the wiki is read from the database. If you change your language in preferences the translation is (mostly) read from languages/messages/Messages**.php (except of additional customizings by the admins).
(In reply to comment #2) > Isn't that what wfMsgNoDB is for? Right, I think it should be used. (Maybe wfMsgNoDBForContent instead.) (In reply to comment #3) > maybe this will be helpfull: in the same time wikipedia logo appearing with this > message IS localised (ie. it's polish wikipedia logo if you attempted to see > polish wikipedia) The logo is set by $wgLogo in LocalSettings.php, and is used from the servers, without using the DB; the messages are used from the DB.
(In reply to comment #1) > is why you get the error message. According to an anonymous developer in > Database.php lines 96-7: It was Tim. :)
I18n (not customisation) possible after r46653.
