2010/9/4 Marcus Buck<wiki(a)marcusbuck.org>rg>:
But I also see several
features that are aimed solely at the Wikimedia employees, like media
storage architecture, monitoring, resource loader, CentralNotice,
Analytics, Selenium deployment, CiviCRM upgrade, and fraud prevention.
I don't want to say that these projects are bad ideas. They are
certainly very good ideas. But they have no big advantages to the
average wiki user.
So you're saying the average wiki user doesn't care about higher site
uptime and faster responses to downtime (monitoring), a sustainable
and more performant infrastructure for file uploads and downloads
(media storage) or making our wikis load faster (resource loader)?
Also, while fundraising (CentralNotice, CiviCRM and the fraud
prevention thing are all part of this) isn't directly interesting for
most users, it does pay for the servers that keep Wikipedia up.
Citing the message
you are responding to: "I don't want to say that
these projects are bad ideas. They are
certainly very good ideas."
I like higher site uptime, but even in the worst times Wikipedia always
was up for read access for - I guess - about 95% of the time.
And I find it interesting that you say that fundraisers are necessary to
keep the servers up. The fundraiser is planned to earn over 15 million $
between November and January. The rates in other months are at about 0.2
million $. 12 months at 0.2 million each are 2.4 million $ in
non-fundraiser donations. Hosting only costs 1.837 million $. So the
servers wouldn't go down without a fundraiser. Of course I support the
Fundraiser, but I don't accept it as a valid reason if you tell me that
it is necessary to delay projects that improve the actual _content of
our projects_.
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox