[Foundation-l] Fwd: Happy 2009 from ibiblio
From another provider of data, information and even knowledge. Thank you for ibiblio notes to UNC are in order. - d. Subject: Happy 2009 from ibiblio I'm jumping in between Christmas and New Year's to thank you for your contributions to ibiblio and for your support in the past year. We've had a period a great growth over the past few years especially as seen here: 200220062008 800 Collections 1600+ Collections 2500+ Collections 3 million ftp+www/day 15+ million 16+ million ftp+www/day 1 terabyte of data 8 terabytes of data 13 terabytes of data 1 large server 22 www/vhost servers25 www/vhost servers 2 database servers 5 database servers 7 database servers 4 radio stations6 radio stations6 radio stations In fact, the 2008 figures were taken at mid-year and we've grown since then! ibiblio is lways eclectic as our newest contributors, The African Elephant Experts Group http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.african-elephant.net%2F and Pachyderm - the Journal of the African Elephant, African Rhino and Asia Rhino Specialist Groups http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.pachydermjournal.org%2Findex.php%2Fpachy%2Fissue%2Fcurrent%2FshowToc show. We, you and ibiblio, offer granular bits of everything to everybody in the world; that is our strength and your gifts, a combined independently managed set of miscellanies for a loosely connected world. At the same time, we face new challenges. Some are obvious; the economy and budgets everywhere have taken a nosedive since September of this year. Some are less so; we will have a new Dean (the search is just opened at the School of Information and Library Science) and a new Chancellor at UNC (Holden Thorp who does understand what ibiblio is about, but will be feeling budget pressures immediately). Much of our ability to support you comes from your support of ibiblio. That need not be in for form of money, which is of course always welcomed and encouraged; it could be in the form of thanking UNC and NC officials for ibiblio services and for the university's support of ibiblio. Thanks for your part of making ibiblio wonderful for over 16 years and happy 2009. Paul ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of
Yes, that's perfectly true. For some of our target groups this is
certainly a bigger obstacle than the wiki markup.
A plan of mine for 2009 is a long list of what can go wrong on the way
becoming an experienced WP author. Or, putting it more positively, what are
the steps and challenges to the rookie.
tutorials as comprehensible as possible. Would you personally be
interested to join the screencast team? Your participation is highly
welcome!
Yes, I'd love to.
Ziko
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Re: [Foundation-l] Data center move in Amsterdam: expect some downtime
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: In the upcoming days until new years we will be moving our servers and other equipment in the Amsterdam data center location to a new data center. Unfortunately this might result in some down time and hiccups of certain web sites services, although we will try to keep this to a minimum. On Sunday the 28th, between 09:00 and 11:00 UTC we will migrate our network in Amsterdam to new equipment. All services located there will be unreachable for a brief period. Traffic for the main wikis will be rerouted to the Florida cluster however, and should remain unaffected. In the days after we will be moving the servers themselves. Some services, such as the mailing lists server, the subversion server and the toolserver cluster, will be down for a number of hours while the equipment is being moved. Traffic for the wikis should again remain largely unaffected. We hope to have the entire migration finished before we enter the last few hours of 2008... and start 2009 with a clean sheet. Happy Holidays everyone! -- Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org System Network Administrator, Wikimedia Foundation Is there a breakdown of which boxes will be unavailable when? Other than that, thanks for the heads up :) -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
