Tim Starling (t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050118 14:08]:
More system administrators are needed. My interest is in programming, but I end up spending most of my time on Linux system administration, because there's nobody else around to do it. Understand that Linux is an operating system I had *never even used* before I started on Wikipedia. I had to pick it up as I went along. It's a bizarre, flawed, buggy operating system which I only use because I'm forced to.
Obviously Kate needs to port MediaWiki to VMS ;-)
(I feel your pain. I used to dislike running Linux, now I despise it.)
Paid system administration help may be an option, but the first priority for paid help should be hardware maintenance, since there are no volunteers in that field, and a small amount of time spent will make a big difference.
A good Linux admin with a screwdriver?
- d.