Wikimedia Foundation selects Watchmouse monitoring service
“Live Health” of Wikipedia and additional websites now posted and updated in real time
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 9, 2011 – WatchMouse, a globally recognized self-service
website and application performance monitoring company, today announced that the
non-profit Wikimedia Foundation will utilize the WatchMouse Public Status Pages to display
the uptime and availability of their array of user-built projects. The Foundation operates
Wikipedia and its sister projects, which are accessed by more than 395 million UVs
(comScore Dec 2010) from around the world, and in over 250 languages. The Wikipedia Public
Status Page can be found at
http://status.wikimedia.org
“The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to be one of the most transparent non-profit
organizations in the world,” said Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia
Foundation. “The Foundation is deeply concerned with growing our global user and editor
base, which makes it critical for us to monitor and maintain the live status of all of our
websites — and providing a public portal for our tens of thousands of volunteers to track
uptime as well. WatchMouse understands and supports our global mission to spread free
knowledge around the world, and with their help we're able to push our mission even
further.”
The WatchMouse Public Status Page technology
(
http://www.watchmouse.com/en/feature/public-status-page.html) monitors performance and
gathers availability data across a network of over 50 stations in more than 30 countries.
The Public Status Pages are free to subscribers and trialists, and inform website visitors
of the status of a specified selection of a company’s online services. This results in
reduced customer service contacts and fosters goodwill with users by publishing the live
health of a website. The actual Public Status Pages are hosted in the cloud using
Amazon's S3 and EC2 products ensuring they are up even when a company’s website may
not be. Additional WatchMouse customers utilizing Public Status Pages include Twitter,
WordPress and Zappos.
“Non-profit organizations are transparent by nature and have a willingness to provide
information about their business activities,” stated Mark Pors, CTO and co-founder of
WatchMouse. “We’re pleased to partner with the Wikimedia Foundation and to support all
non-profit organizations by offering a deep discount on our monitoring services.”
For more information about discounted monitoring services for non-profit organizations,
please visit
http://www.watchmouse.com/non_profit_offering.php.
About WatchMouse
http://www.watchmouse.com
WatchMouse is a global industry leader in self-service website and application performance
monitoring. WatchMouse products test the behavior and availability of websites, services
and applications utilizing an infrastructure that includes over 50 worldwide monitoring
stations, in 30+ countries. WatchMouse provides many of the world's leading companies
including Twitter, WordPress, Wikimedia Foundation, Philips, ING and VeriSign with
independent confirmation of both in-house and supplier performance. Subscribers and
trialists also have the ability to publish the live health of their websites utilizing the
WatchMouse Public Status Page technology. Supporting a broad, rapidly growing
international customer base, Founded in 2002, WatchMouse is a privately held company
headquartered in The Netherlands. Follow @watchmouse on Twitter or learn more at
http://www.watchmouse.com.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.org
http://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization which operates Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects
operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 390 million unique visitors per
month, making them the 5th most popular web property world-wide (Dec, 2010). Available in
more than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 17 million articles contributed by a
global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco,
California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded
primarily through donations and grants.
Media Contacts:
Mindy M. Hull
Mercury Global Partners for WatchMouse
Tel. +1 415 889 9977 (US)
Tel. +31 62 504 7680 (NL)
mindy(a)mercuryglobalpartners.com
Ginny Cain
Mercury Global Partners for WatchMouse
Tel. +1 925 426 0646 (US)
ginny(a)mercuryglobalpartners.com
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel. +1 415 839 6885 x 6609
jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org
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