Template:Platform Status/doc

Introduction

The former status display on main page has been retired. Look at Platform Status for information about status and issues.

The reason for retiring of the status display is that it could give the impression of being an automatic error message. However, it was a purely manual specification and this was only rarely maintained. See Talk:Main_Page/Archive_3#Platform_status for the archived discussion.

Use

Examples

The following are some example bits of text you could use with the indicator by option "text=...".

Green: Normal

{{Platform Status|green|text=Up and running}}

Up and running

Text examples:

• Up and running

Orange: Running with non blocking problems

{{Platform Status|orange|text=Running with problems}}

Running with problems

Text examples:

• Running with problems
• Slow due to heavy traffic
• Slow or no web/API response.
• API up and running, GPX import backlogged
• Will be sluggish while it checks tables following earlier outage
• API a little slow
• Large wiki-pages cause memory-problems
• An occasional API map call may fail at certain locations due to bad data
• Data import/new rendering lags
• One or more services down
• Name searches not working

Red: Down or blocking problems

{{Platform Status|red|text=Down}}

Down

Text examples:

• Database is in read-only mode
• API extremely slow
• API down
• API down for planned maintenance
• Dev down
• Web site down - Database problems
• Web site unreachable - Network problems

About this template

This template appears as a little status indicator.

Please update this template if you know what the status of the OSM platform is. If servers seem to be slow or down, you could verify this by asking others on IRC and checking downforeveryoneorjustme.com - but in general be bold! Update this! It won't reflect the current state of the platform unless people update it.

Please also supply more details on the Platform Status page when updating this.

See also

• Template:Platform Announce