Hello, At Tuesday 22 May 2012 19:00:14 DaB. wrote:
We have got the WMF and its staff to keep things running, and that's where this kind of statistics belongs. The WMF are carefully considering whether new projects should be started, they have agreed that Wikisource should be started (in 2003) and as a consequence, vital statistics and support should be funded and operated by them.
that's the reason why there is a toolserver: Because the WMF (and the mediawiki-develeopers/techs) can not do everything themself and there are several people with good ideas outside the WMF. So the idea was "we give them a (yes 1 ;-)) server and they can hosts their stuff there (in opposite to host it somewhere external)" – that part worked quite well; there was also a second part "and than their stuff can move into mediawiki when it is done and the code is good enough (and it has to be php…)." – that part never worked (at least I do not know an example). In my eyes the toolserver developed behind this original idea and is now a good place to host stuff even when it is done, because the toolserver-cluster is now way more stable and complete than a single server could be (yes, there IS much more to improve, I know). If you (the ts-users) would start to move more stuff into MMPs it would be even more stable – BTW: You do not have to find a co-maintainer to start a MMP, you can run it all alone. The advantage of a MMP (besides that it does not expire at the moment) is that someone can continue to run the tools even if the original maintainer left the TS.
Sincerely, DaB.