I would support the idea but with the caveat that perhaps it may be better to start by doing that to smaller projects first. I dont know enough about computers to be able to tell, but if we were to do that to wikisource, wikibooks, and maybe some of the smaller languages first, the larger projects would be able to function adequately.
Danny
I fear that these projects takes too little of our resources to really make a difference Danny.
The other point I would make is that one really "feel" the difference when USA is waking up :-( During mornings here, wikipedia is perfectly editable.
Rather than making all sites unavailable at peak hours, would it be possible to imagine turns ?
Other ideas ?
daniwo59@aol.com a écrit:
I would support the idea but with the caveat that perhaps it may be better to start by doing that to smaller projects first. I dont know enough about computers to be able to tell, but if we were to do that to wikisource, wikibooks, and maybe some of the smaller languages first, the larger projects would be able to function adequately.
Danny
Anthere schrieb:
I fear that these projects takes too little of our resources to really make a difference Danny.
The other point I would make is that one really "feel" the difference when USA is waking up :-( During mornings here, wikipedia is perfectly editable.
Rather than making all sites unavailable at peak hours, would it be possible to imagine turns ?
Other ideas ?
We get most edits from logged-in users, right? And generation of logged-in user pages takes more time than just dumping pages from the squids for anons, right?
So, how about multi-level miser mode! Go through the steps until the site is workable: 1. Everyone gets anon pages; except logged-in users get logged-in edit pages 2. Anons and a randomly chosen user set are prohibited from editing for, say, one hour (includes newly generated accounts to prevent spontaneous edit-sock-puppet-generation) 3. Read-only-mode for everyone
Alternatively, we could in turn put en&de (for example) and all projects *except* those in read-only. Or is that what you meant with "turns"?
Magnus
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