If there is one thing I've learned so far in my short life, it is that patience is among the greatest virtues and that politeness will usually get me much further than demands.
There are of course situations where it is necessary to be firm, however this is not one of them considering the power dynamic. If I want a developer to do something for me, the last thing I will do is demand they do it (mind you it's been several years since I asked anything of them as far as I can remember). It's certainly possible that they will forget about my request so I may remind them from time to time, but it's essential to recognize that they are very busy people, an already-locked Wikipedia with only several hundred articles is understandably going to be much lower on their list of priorities than problems involving the heavy traffic Wikis such as en.wp or de.wp.
I'm not suggesting that anybody ignore the issue, just that a different approach be taken to resolution.
Mark
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:14 PM, genigeniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/10 John Doe phoenixoverride@gmail.com:
Cetateanu Im going to be nice in how I say this, DO NOT DEMAND things from developers. If dev says they are not ready THEY ARE NOT READY. please also consider that these developers run one of the top ten websites on the internet, so they must be doing it right for the most part or the servers would be a smoking pile of rubble. There are a lot more complex and unseen factors that exist on large scale server arrays such as wikimedia's than what your recommending. If either of your ideas where feasible with the current system it would have been taken care of. Here is a suggestion, LET THE DEVELOPERS DEVELOP a good way to implement your request without breaking things
Given the current time over which the request has been ongoing and the politics involved (remeber they only stopped shooting each other 17years ago) I think it is understandable if people are not entirely prepared to sit back and hope the devs get on with it.
-- geni
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