May I suggest that next time we are slashdotted, someone please add a highly visible link at the TOP of the main page, at least on the english wikipedia, for say 2 or 3 days, so that perhaps some visitors feel like making a small donation ?
The events are very demanding on servers, last week, we were all slowed down a lot for 2 days, so visitors might understand the need for more hardware.
Besides, given the number of discussions last week on slashdot, about donation issues, that is perhaps best to show clearly where donations could be made :-)
So, slashdot events would be beneficial both in terms of contributors and in terms of revenue ?
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I agree with Ant - we have spent lots of time making Wikipedia look so slick, we've lost our boldness for conversing with visitors. There was a time when we were more willing to put solicitations and "You can edit this page now" messages on the site.
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:47:30 -0700 (PDT), Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
May I suggest that next time we are slashdotted, someone please add a highly visible link at the TOP of the main page, at least on the english wikipedia, for say 2 or 3 days, so that perhaps some visitors feel like making a small donation ?
The events are very demanding on servers, last week, we were all slowed down a lot for 2 days, so visitors might understand the need for more hardware.
Besides, given the number of discussions last week on slashdot, about donation issues, that is perhaps best to show clearly where donations could be made :-)
So, slashdot events would be beneficial both in terms of contributors and in terms of revenue ?
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--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
May I suggest that next time we are slashdotted,
Can we not find a way to find the referer and add a fundraiser if slashdot is in it?
I have noticed that several people now link to wikipedia as a reference and in their sig in article comments on slashdot.
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:43:10 -0700, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
Can we not find a way to find the referer and add a fundraiser if slashdot is in it?
That would kill caching, which would kill our servers.
Kill our servers? No. Vaporize our servers into a fine quantam mist? Certainly. :)
Would it be thoroughly impossible to stick on another (hackish) low-overhead layer that did nothing if the referrer was not Slashdot, but otherwise would redirect to a specially cached version of the page? Would it be possible to intercept Slashdot to a temporary quick hi-welcome-slashdotters-give-us-money page before forwarding the user on to the real article (automatically or via a link)?
Brion Vibber wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
Can we not find a way to find the referer and add a fundraiser if slashdot is in it?
That would kill caching, which would kill our servers.
Hmm, actually you could probably do a JavaScript hack. Wouldn't reach everyone, but it wouldn't bust caches since the check would be client-side.
if (document.referrer.match(/slashdot.org/)) { // stick a <div> into the document tree }
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