Thanks very much for explaining Brion!
I'm very pleased with what I hear about all that
intergration on 1 machine. Sounds great.
Sorry for mentioning 'gods'
It's just that I dislike the word 'meta',
I would prefer the word "development" or "admin" or.... (?)
I'm now considering the following:
Read-Only Caching:
Cache some of the wikipedia-documents on my own server
for read-only. Just when I might want to edit, I 'll get
redirected to your real wikipedia-server to read the
latest version, and perhaps write..
Or maybe your server (or a second machine) might run a
read-only version of the wikipedia-content, as a regular
webserver?... Just for quick reading, there should be no
locks. Locks are only required for writing documents
(conflicts and such).
For someone that quickly wants to read-only, it is no
problem when he or she does not really get the *latest*
version of that page, but a cached version from yesterday.
.... ? ....
Well, anyway, thanks for your very informative and clear
reply. Thanks to all other Wikipedia-maintainers as well
for making Wikipedia possible.
Pieter
Brion Vibber wrote:
On ĵaÅ, 2003-01-30 at 15:33, Pieter Suurmond wrote:
Sorry for bothering again but I very much agree
with
the above. Having no solution, it is at least good to
talk about it (clear and visible management, democracy, etc).
Great!
Maybe, closing down
meta.wikipedia.org is a good
idea?
What??! Why??
Are you saying that discussion about the site should be hidden away on a
secret "hackers-only" wiki where people can't find it instead of the
open-to-everyone meta wiki?
Or buried in a thousands-of-edits-per-day encyclopedia where people
can't find it instead of a more leisurely specifically-for-discussion-
about-running-the-site meta wiki? Buried on the English Wikipedia where
people coming from other languages won't have a *clue* how to find
things, and people who don't speak English don't have a chance of having
their voices heard?
I say NO to that. Closing meta would be undemocratic, bigoted, and wrong
in every way.
Designers, developers, programmers,
administrators, etc should be
on the 'normal' wikipedia, they should _not_ be 'gods'.
Not sure what this means.
This relates to (inter)language problem: there is
no
central wikipedia (or do you regard the English-speaking
one,
www.wikipedia.org, as the central one?).
meta.wikipedia.org is the central wiki for discussion about the workings
of Wikipedia and plans for changing it. It is officially multilingual,
and open to all (though _so far_ most content is only in English).
Wikipedia thus already DOES work with
distributed
servers, isn't it? (Spanish wikipedia is on another machine
than the Dutch, and the English, etc?)
They're all on the same machine, and will be integrated further when the
user accounts and upload sections are rolled into one to avoid the
numerous headaches encountered currently by people working in multiple
languages (separate logins; have to copy images multiple times, have to
put in interlanguage links multiple times, etc).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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