On 4/20/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 4/20/07, Nicholas Moreau < nicholasmoreau@gmail.com> wrote:

No, they "cache" the content. I'm not that good at this whole
technical stuff but it works something like this:

For someone not technical, you did an excellent job. :)

> > In any case, the primary goal of a chapter should definitely not be
> > hosting content, but making sure that the content hosted by the WMF is
> > spread and used as much as possible.

Just for completeness - do any chapters rent squid servers around the world, or  are these all under WMF billing? If a chapter can rent (and not be responsible for the content) then that is good, I think.

> Certainly wasn't going to be a primary goal, but one to explore. The
> reasoning was that it would provide Canadians with better, more
> reliable access to the site. I'll put it on the backburner.

I do think there is a lot of stuff we have to do prior to considering pouring effort into content serving, but there is no reason to backburner it. We should set up a list of things that we would like to do, and I think servers would be a great thing to do. We just have to assign it a proper priority, and be reasonable about how long it will take until we are able to "do it right".

Gerald.