On 8/31/09 7:51 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Domas Mituzas<[email protected]> wrote: > >> en2 is, um, http://en2.wikipedia.org/ ;-) it used to exist once upon a >> time, and apparently there're some referrals. > > Wikimedia news, October 2003: > -- > A portion of traffic to "www.wikipedia.org" will be diverted to > "en2.wikipedia.org", while most of it will go to "en.wikipedia.org", > where all logins will be directed. Until the server configuration is > more stable and transparent load-sharing is set up, this should help > share some of the traffic without burdening the other wikis too > greatly. > -- > > I think the reason that en got the lion's share is that en2 was on one > machine with the other languages whereas en was on a machine on its > own. At that time apparently en: still had significantly more traffic > than all other languages taken together.
Ah, the good old days! Sure glad we figured out Squid soon after that... ;) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
