2009/4/27 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
On 4/27/09 11:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/27 Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org:
On 4/27/09 8:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:
What's missing? A donation beg notice! Downtime being, of course, our most profitable product ...
At the moment, general downtime probably means the donation page is down too. :)
We should probably plan for that, actually, and put up an automatic mirror not served from WMF machines ...
The tricky part is having it survive the traffic. ;)
If that message is for when MediaWiki breaks, presumably that means the squids are still up and running and, obviously, they can survive the traffic. Could the squids run a simplified version of the donation software themselves? It doesn't need to have all the interesting comments and statistics and stuff that we usually have. In fact, it doesn't need much more than a link to paypal.