Sorry I forgot to copy this list.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *James Salsman* jsalsman@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Subject: Database administration support (was Re: IRC office hours: Shared hosting) To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

On Sunday, December 20, 2015, Brian Wolff <bawolff@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bawolff@gmail.com');> wrote:

If you want to get Dispenser his hard disk space, you should take it up with the labs people, or at the very least some thread where it would be on-topic.

The labs people are so understaffed that two extremely important anti-spam bots recently had to be taken offline for much longer than in recent years.

I propose Foundation management allocate the necessary resources and recommend the hiring of sufficient personnel and purchasing of sufficient, non NSA-compatible (i.e., discount and homebrew style) equipment to properly support both existing infrastructural bots and similar projects such as Dispenser's reflinks cache.

I would also like to propose that the Foundation oppose the TPP provisions deleterious to our interests, and that this position be endorsed on the Public Policy list.

Then by definition it wouldn't be a third-party spam framework if WMF was running it.

I am not proposing that the WMF take the bots over, just meet their necessary service level requirements.

Sincerely, Jim