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<DIV>In a message dated 5/7/2004 5:55:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, isam@bayazidi.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Hi all..<BR>In the Arabic Wikipedia (as with other Wikipedias) we suffer from poor <BR>speed/performance, and a feature-stripped mediawiki (search-disabled and <BR>so).. Anyhow, one of the members in the Arabic Wikipedia contacted me, <BR>telling me that he can get Server power, and cover yearly costs for <BR>Bandwidth/placement in a data-center.. But he said that he wanted to <BR>have that server/bandwidth dedicated to the Arabic Wikipedia..<BR><BR>I wanted to know about the possibility of that.. is it "Technically" <BR>possible ? of course, everything is under the Mediawiki foundation <BR>umbrella, and server full access will be only for the mediawiki <BR>developers in charge of such thing..<BR><BR>If that is absolutely not possible.. will it be possible to have a new <BR>server added to the existing server farm, having it's cost covered, but <BR>enabling all the nice feature for Arabic Wikipedia (after all we are <BR>only 650 articles or so), and have a certain priority for Arabic <BR>Wikipedia, while having the server doing what other servers do ?<BR><BR>The current performance/speed/status of Arabic Wikipedia (and other <BR>wikipedias) is not a very good one.. and sooner or later <BR>Language-limited donations will come, and they will be have to be dealt <BR>with.. after all, full control is, and will always be, in the hand of <BR>the mediawiki developers/admins .. the only difference is that the <BR>server layer will be differently organized in a way to allow to dedicate <BR>resources to wikipedias..<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>I dont see why it should be a problem, but I would add a stipulation--that the Arabic server take another small Wiki under its wing (and server), so as to prevent a fork, and help the folks there grow too. </DIV>
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<DIV>BTW, Arabic is growing remarkably well, and I want to thank Isam for all his efforts there.</DIV>
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<DIV>Danny. </DIV></BODY></HTML>