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

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