I can just say one thing I saw myself, and which was mentionned by several french people.
When I have several windows open at the same moment, say three
*one open on en *one open on fr *one open on www.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main Page
The first page to load in en. Several seconds later, it is fr. And much later wikimedia.
I cant avoid seeing that en pages are often served much quicker than fr pages. I know not why. I am sure it is not on purpose. But it is a fact.
Thomas R. Koll wrote:
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