On 3/25/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Clearly, given I was under the impression Kate was in
charge, someone
needs to step forward and state who *is*.
As has been pointed out several times before, part of the text access
problem is that Wikimedia now stores text in external storage
clusters, a feature of MediaWiki written for that purpose. And Zedler
can't get at them.
A sensible, practical suggestion is needed, and soon. And
administrators to answer the queries would be helpful; after all, we
could all have it pegged down wrong.
At first we lost it because of a disk failure. I'd gone dark for a few
weeks and when I came back the cause had been changed to moving the
text to external DBs.
I've asked, but never received answers, as to why we can't either
replicate these externals stores.
I'm pretty much to the point where I've abandoned my toolserver
account, and when it expires April first I won't be asking for it to
be extended ... I don't even know who I'd ask now.
Because of the unresponsiveness of these matters I have, in the past
inquired about receiving an OAI feed... an advantage of using a live
updated feed rather than replication is that I could run an analysis
database on PostgreSQL or Oracle, both of which are far more suited to
the use than MySQL. I wouldn't have any problem making a system with
more resources than toolserveral available for public use... But my
request there has also been ignored.
I'm more than a little tired of wasting my time trying to contribute
to a project where getting even the most basic assistance from the
powers that be is effectively impossible. I've never asked anyone to
do anything, except the most minimal set of tasks that I lack the
authority to perform myself. ...Sigh...