<Coren> To make things clear; the filesystem backing NFS has suffered from a catastrophic failure. We are currently hard at work restoring a backup that dates from June 9 around 16h UTC. We may be able to provide part of the data at the time of the crash, but it is not certain at this time.
- no comment.... ---sigh--- > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:14:36 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Labs-l] NFS outage in progress [UPDATE] > > Hi > > Am 18.06.2015 um 16:07 schrieb Petr Bena: > > That is actually not that easy to decide on. The biggest community are > > wikipedia readers. They don't really care about labs at all. Second > > biggest community are editors, they don't care so much about labs > > either. > That's certainly not true. There are so many tools hosted on labs which > are used by non-techs (ie. "normal" editors) and also the bots have a > great impact if editors can do there work. > > > Developer community is not that big and most of money comes from > > readers. If there was a way for donors to choose which part of > > wikimedia project they would like to support with their money, I doubt > > there would be many of them who would actually pick "labs". > > Furthermore, I think it is confusing to just consider the pure size of a > community. It is much more important to see what impact the people of a > community have. Wiki(p|m)edia editors have a great impact on the > Wikimedia movement and readers actually pay to support the guys making > this movement happen. > > So while it is important to make reading Wikipedia easy, it is also > important to help the editors as they are the ones which actually make > the content. Readers don't come to Wikipedia because there is a nice > MediaViewer or a nice VisualEditor but because there is interesting > content. This is the point we have to focus on. > > Best regards > Bene > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
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