Isam Bayazidi wrote:
Do I understand from this that the Mediawiki software
have a limitation
in that regard ? I thought that there is already somehow a distribution
for the servers between English and non-English wikipedias.. as
sometimes English work, while other langs don't.. and in other times
non-English work fine, while English is not..
Does all Wikipedias currently share the same resources with equal
priorities ? or there is already certain setups that are made for Large
wikipedias such as English and German ?
Everything shares the same servers. The only partial exception to this
at present is the front-end squid cache machines, which are roughly
divided between English Wikipedia (plus a couple of small wikis) and
Everything Else (including the couple of small wikis on the other
machine). Sometimes these are served by the same machine during
maintenance, or which machine is which may swap.
The only reason there's a split right now is that there was something
weird with our DNS service that doesn't let us declare both IP addresses
for the *.wikipedia.org hosts. This should change when we move over to
our own DNS server, which was supposed to happen months ago but is
waiting on... something? I'm not sure of the details. I think the
secondary DNS backup server has to get set up somewhere.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)