Hello, At Tuesday 22 May 2012 19:00:14 DaB. wrote: > We have got the WMF and its staff to keep things running, and > that's where this kind of statistics belongs. The WMF are > carefully considering whether new projects should be started, > they have agreed that Wikisource should be started (in 2003) > and as a consequence, vital statistics and support should be > funded and operated by them.
that's the reason why there is a toolserver: Because the WMF (and the mediawiki-develeopers/techs) can not do everything themself and there are several people with good ideas outside the WMF. So the idea was "we give them a (yes 1 ;-)) server and they can hosts their stuff there (in opposite to host it somewhere external)" – that part worked quite well; there was also a second part "and than their stuff can move into mediawiki when it is done and the code is good enough (and it has to be php…)." – that part never worked (at least I do not know an example). In my eyes the toolserver developed behind this original idea and is now a good place to host stuff even when it is done, because the toolserver-cluster is now way more stable and complete than a single server could be (yes, there IS much more to improve, I know). If you (the ts-users) would start to move more stuff into MMPs it would be even more stable – BTW: You do not have to find a co-maintainer to start a MMP, you can run it all alone. The advantage of a MMP (besides that it does not expire at the moment) is that someone can continue to run the tools even if the original maintainer left the TS. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885
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