when these kind of important and critical changes are made by people from the other side of the Ocean, without consulting the hardworking people on this side of the Atlantic, people can become very upset. I can't feel anything of a community-feeling in
this way of acting.
Jeroen (Dutch Wikipedian)
Jeroen, if you have a better way to keep the server up and running at decent speed, I *beg* you to share it with the development team.
We're all doing what we can to have Wikipedia up and available for thousands of people to use in the best possible shape, but we have no paid full-time or part-time developers or database admins, and little resources for hardware upgrades except when Jimbo is able to kick in for another server.
That means we're a small number of volunteers trying to keep the site running FOR YOU in our spare time FOR FREE.
I'm sorry if that's not enough to keep a high-traffic site in peak condition 24 hours a day seven days a week. I wish it were, and I hope that you and others will help to make it so in the future by pitching in with development and maintenance work and money for server upgrades.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)