On 24/10/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
As someone else said, surely the features aren't
helping. But with good
design, you can have features and efficiency. I'll admit that there has been
some progress in this regard in the past year, but there are still some
major design flaws in the mediawiki software and the overall architecture of
the system which are causing the hardware costs to be much more than they
should be. This might have been reasonable in the past when the cost of
hardware was low, but those days are over.
I'd love to hear from the devs about this , but my impression is that
the system is very highly optimised. If you think you can do better,
write the code!
At least there's a CTO now,
though his user page curiously says he's "On WikiBreak".
He's on a break from contributing to Wikipedia - I can assure you,
Brion is very busy writing and managing Mediawiki code!
And considering
that I don't recall there ever being a period where Wikimedia advertised
that it was hiring this position I have my doubts that they can be so sure
he's the most qualified person for the position.
Well, he wrote a lot of the software himself, so it's a fair bet he
knows it best :-).
Dan