Correction-- per Tim Starling on Meta, the portion that we pay for (and is not donated) comes to around $300,000, making the savings much closer to $3,000-4,000 i.e. even more meaningless.
-Dan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
I fail to see the benefit of this trade off when compared to the extreme negative publicity we'd get for it. The 2007 finances report says we spent approximately $389,000 on internet hosting. 1.5-2% of that is around 6,000 dollars a year.
You couldn't hope to buy off the negative publicity we'd get from this for a $6,000 a year savings.
-Dan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
Just a heads up that there is a discussion to see if disabling all "hotlinking" of images and media from external sites is a good idea, here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Proposal_to_disable_hotlinking
Tim Starling posted some statistics that indicate 1% to 2.5% of all requests are from outside sites leaching WMF bandwidth resources. In theory this could save the WMF 1% to 2.5% or more of it's bandwidth costs.
- Joe
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