I still don't know, why the search features are not activated on all projects.
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > For search features, I found this thread: > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-October/039861.html There I read: "hopefully in few weeks time we will finish the whole migration". That was four months ago. Aryeh Gregor mentioned two other posts, that spoke about "some hardware issues" and "I *think* we are in process of ordering some more RAM". Why is it so hard to get some precise answers? What are the hardware issues, when was the RAM ordered, when will it be installed? Sometimes I am under the impression, that our developers (not the volunteer developers, but the paid tech staff who do the ordering and all that stuff) do not even read wikitech-l. According to <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff>: Brion Vibber, Tim Starling, Tomasz Finc, Ariel Glenn, Rob Halsell, Mark Bergsma, Michael Dale, Trevor Parscal. And Aryeh Gregor said this: "it seems logical enough to start with the largest wikis to get the most feedback earliest in the process". Okay, granted. You could get the same amount of feedback if you switched all the small projects first, but of course communication would be harder. So that's a valid argument for that "discrimination". But how about some "positive discrimination" as compensation? Today for example a user on my homewiki asked me, why "Special:AncientPages", "Special:WantedPages" and some other special pages aren't updated, they would be useful for maintenance. They were deactivated at different times in 2006, 2007 and 2008 when the updates began to take too much time on the servers. But I'm sure it was none of the small projects that caused the problems. It should be unproblematic, if the scripts were activated again on the small projects. Marcus Buck _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
