An'n 04.09.2010 01:15, hett Roan Kattouw schreven: > 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. Citing the message you are responding to: "I don't want to say that these projects are bad ideas. They are certainly very good ideas."
I like higher site uptime, but even in the worst times Wikipedia always was up for read access for - I guess - about 95% of the time. And I find it interesting that you say that fundraisers are necessary to keep the servers up. The fundraiser is planned to earn over 15 million $ between November and January. The rates in other months are at about 0.2 million $. 12 months at 0.2 million each are 2.4 million $ in non-fundraiser donations. Hosting only costs 1.837 million $. So the servers wouldn't go down without a fundraiser. Of course I support the Fundraiser, but I don't accept it as a valid reason if you tell me that it is necessary to delay projects that improve the actual _content of our projects_. Marcus Buck User:Slomox _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
