We should do everything we can to accomodate this. I'd much prefer to see this switch set 'on' by default if they're up for that, and I can dig deep if necessary to accomodate this kind of opportunity.
When you say 'queries' does that mean searches in our search engine? One possibility here is that I could setup a fastcgi on a different machine to return results just for them from a daily dump of the German database. 200,000 queries a day would not be that hard to handle, and if it isn't hitting our main machines, it wouldn't pose any problems for the site as a whole *except* of course that if we return search results 200,000 times, we'll probably see 20,000-50,000 additional page views per day on de.wikipedia.org.
Kurt Jansson wrote:
The biggest German meta-search engine MetaGer (http://meta.rrzn.uni-hannover.de) would like to have us integrated. There would be a switch which is set on *off* per default, so we'll get about 10.000 queries per day. (If it's set *on* per default we'll get about 200.000 queries per day.)
I think atm neither is possible, but when the new server is up and running will we be able to handle the traffic?
Kurt
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