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.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)