Thanks Guillaume, didn't find those.
It's kinda difficult though to find some useful numbers in those threads, and some arguments I'm reading are completely crazy :-) So I think it would be good to start a new thread. Moreover, WMF is pretty bigger than it was in 2007 or 2009, and I think a new discussion is due. Climate change is a fact, governments are talking about that all the time, even the pope wrote an encyclical about that! It's an important topic, and I bet it is also for our donors.
I'm not really interested in talking about efficiency, as I take for granted that Engineering team is trying hard to optimize the whole thing, which is also good in terms of carbon emissions.
What are we doing, beside that? Do we have a rough estimate of the impact of Wikipedia (authorship, readership, servers. Not talking about plane tickets here.)?
Aubrey
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Andrea,
Le dimanche 5 juillet 2015, 17:45:34 Andrea Zanni a écrit :
I tried to find the info myself, with little success: I'm interested to know about the environmental impact of running
Wikipedia
(carbon emissions, etc.) and what we are doing about it. Sorry if I missed wikimedia-l threads, or other sources.
Here are a couple of old threads to get you started:
2007: "WMF-projects: Carbon neutral/low/aware website?" http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/17517
2009: "Wikimedia and Environment" http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/43381
The numbers discussed in those threads are undoubtedly out of date, but I imagine some of the arguments still apply.
Hope that helps :)
-- Guillaume Paumier
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