On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:55PM +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
If a Wikimedia chapter wants to buy servers for their language wiki to avoid slow, poor-quality service or site-wide advertising, then we should give them our blessing.
I'd prefer read-only mirrors which redirect the edits to the main server. I don't know the situation at fr: but at de: we use wikipedia.de not de.wikipedia.org in press news, so it would be easy to take some good portion of the traffic off the Florida-servers.
ciao, tom