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
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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Jimmy Wales schrieb:
When you say 'queries' does that mean searches in our search engine?
That's how I understood their mail.
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.
I think this would be great!
It seems they want to set the Wikipedia-switch on off per default now and turn it on later if everything works fine.
Kurt
Do they speak English?
Kurt Jansson wrote:
Jimmy Wales schrieb:
When you say 'queries' does that mean searches in our search engine?
That's how I understood their mail.
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.
I think this would be great!
It seems they want to set the Wikipedia-switch on off per default now and turn it on later if everything works fine.
Kurt
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On Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003, at 08:12 US/Pacific, Kurt Jansson wrote:
Jimmy Wales schrieb:
When you say 'queries' does that mean searches in our search engine?
That's how I understood their mail.
Well, just keep in mind that we don't have a working search engine at the moment.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
When you say 'queries' does that mean searches in our search engine?
That's how I understood their mail.
Well, just keep in mind that we don't have a working search engine at the moment.
Right, but I could write a really fast one pretty quickly using fastcgi and dbm files. I just dump the database, do some keyword magic, bomis-style, and there ya go. It isn't as fancy-dancy as mysql full-text searching, and it wouldn't be updated constantly on-the-fly, but it should do the job nicely for an outside search engine that would like a reasonably up to date feed from us.
--Jimbo
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