On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Karun Dambiec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are these the servers that wikipedia no longer require due to the > increasing number of > deletions being made recently? > As of today, I will no longer be contributing to MediaWiki through > bugfixes. > The reason for this being that: the amount new content is decreasing, > and the amount of articles being deleted is increasing. > > Even recently I noticed that there is proposals for deletions on > Wikipedia of article about the Australian National University and its > colleges, as apparently they are not notable enough and all should be > merged into one article. > > Regards > Karun > >> >> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:00 -0300, "Mike.lifeguard" >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > I wanted to let folks know that WMF is decommissioning some 35 servers, >> > and is willing to accept requests from users interested in using them >> > for Wikimedia-related purposes. If you can ship a server from Tampa to >> > where you are, and if you can put it to good use, please see >> > http://tinyurl.com/r3xhp7 and send your request in. >> > >> > Many thanks to the tech team (in particular RobH - looks like he's >> > handling most or all of this) for reaching out to community members >> > first. I'm sure we can find happy homes for lots of this hardware, which >> > will help community members be productive in helping achieve Wikimedia's >> > mission. >> > >> > - -Mike >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> > >> > iEYEARECAAYFAkqv1iAACgkQst0AR/DaKHtN8gCdEMaFLzmPRQQcz0f3d2vCajJI >> > woIAn1PV0fN9uvoKoobFMmB/kt0LmxYJ >> > =VrGB >> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
On another point, deleting articles does not free up space. All the old revisions are still in the database. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
