On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Marcus Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Unfortunately, I just have no idea what the answer is to this. > 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. Actually, I believe there are several special pages that are enabled only on the small wikis, not on larger ones. I don't know why WantedPages isn't among those. There are other things that smaller wikis can get but larger ones not, like getting DPL enabled. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
