2009/5/22 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:58 AM, The Cunctator <[email protected]> wrote: >> We should definitely highlight real downtime as a reason for funding, >> especially in a way that discusses practical steps that would be taken to >> reduce the problem and how much those steps would cost. > > Interesting point. Commercial organisations would never issue a press > release highlighting poor performance, because they want people to > think they're getting good value for money. A charity on the other > hand...what does wikipedia have to lose from people thinking its > servers are unreliable due to lack of funding?
The thing that prompted me to start this thread was Google, a commercial organisation (although not one people pay for at the point of use), issuing just such a press release. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
