There is now a WMF blog post explaining the initial findings from the Operations team: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/06/wikimedia-site-outage-6-august-2012/
We hope to have a more detailed report soon. -Matthew -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > On 6 August 2012 21:06, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > $35 million is not "a few million dollars". > > But not all of that is spent on site operations. > > > All fine and dandy, but then let's please do our best to ensure that the > > BBC don't print "gaffer tape and string" sob stories about us. The tenner > > that someone in India sends us might indeed be better spent on a local > > charity there that actually feeds someone, or keeps someone healthy. > > Don't you think that should be up to the donor? I certainly agree that > we need to be honest in our messaging and I've been very vocal in > opposition to messaging that suggests there is any urgency for people > to donate of that Wikipedia won't survive it they don't (at least, > once we're far enough into the fundraiser that basic costs are all > covered). That doesn't mean we shouldn't be proud of the fact that we > are extremely efficient with our operations spending. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
