Then the foundation should assign higher priority to projects (to fund) which take into account environmental impact. For example a GLAM project printing fliers would rank better if fliers are printed on recycled paper. Same for suppliers/providers of any kind of good: the less the impact the higher the rank.
Dealing with black skins...you know that would mean, more or less, "turning trees into pulp to print fliers against turning trees into pulp" ^^
Vito
2016-05-24 1:40 GMT+02:00 Ricordisamoa ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org:
Server consumption of course but what about the impact of email, food, transport etc? Earth Hour: switch the wikis to a dark skin
Il 30/03/2016 09:27, Lukas Mezger ha scritto:
Dear readers of the Wikitech mailing list,
I am a member of the Wikipedia community and I have started a project to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact. The main idea is to use renewable energy for running the Wikimedia servers and the main reason for this is that by doing so, Wikipedia can set a great example for environmental responsibility in the entire internet sector.
My project was started after Greenpeace USA published a report http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/click-clean/ about the energy consumption of the biggest sites on the Internet in 2015 and in which Wikipedia, to my astonishment, performed poorly, receiving a "D" score and only passing because of the Wikimedia Foundation's openness about its energy consumption.
I would very much like to change that and set up a page called "Environmental impact https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact" on Meta. I have already discussed the issue with a few people both from the Wikimedia Foundation's management and from the Wikimedia community and have received positive responses.
In order to further advance the project, I would like to learn more about how much energy Wikipedia's servers use. As far as I can tell, these figures are not public, but I believe they could very well be.
Also, I am interested to learn how changing a server site's energy sources can be carried out on the operations side since the United States energy sector hasn't been completely deregulated yet.
So, thank you very much for any comments! Maybe there also is an even better forum to discuss these questions?
Finally, if you would like to support my project, please consider adding your name to this list https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact#Show_your_support. Thank you. Kind regards,
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