2010/9/4 Marcus Buck <[email protected]>: > But I also see several > features that are aimed solely at the Wikimedia employees, like media > storage architecture, monitoring, resource loader, CentralNotice, > Analytics, Selenium deployment, CiviCRM upgrade, and fraud prevention. > > I don't want to say that these projects are bad ideas. They are > certainly very good ideas. But they have no big advantages to the > average wiki user. > So you're saying the average wiki user doesn't care about higher site uptime and faster responses to downtime (monitoring), a sustainable and more performant infrastructure for file uploads and downloads (media storage) or making our wikis load faster (resource loader)?
Also, while fundraising (CentralNotice, CiviCRM and the fraud prevention thing are all part of this) isn't directly interesting for most users, it does pay for the servers that keep Wikipedia up. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
