On 2012-05-22 11:22, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
This madness has to stop. Wikis should stop depending on services that are not hosted in multi-maintainer projects!
This would be an improvement over the current status, but it is not sufficient. It's terrible that we depend on a single user, but not much better if we depend on a small group of them. 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.
b) make sure users know tools can disappear suddenly
But you have no way to communicate this message. It's an impossible task.