Wikipedia talk:Downtime

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)[reply]

Formatting ideas

(as simple as)

<time> <duration> <reason>

Is anyone up to the job of helping me update this page?

This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. I think it would be worthwhile to revive it. Does anyone know where I can find the information I would need to do that? My impression is that in recent years we have only had brief planned downtime while various upgrades are made, but I would like to see a page documenting the great job the server wranglers are doing. --Guy Macon (talk) 23:33, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]