[Foundation-l] Thank you for discussing my Top 25 Nonprofit LIst

[Matthew Britton]

geni wrote:
> On 03/10/2007, Allan Benamer <abenamer at nonprofittechblog.org> wrote:
>> Hehe.. well, I just want monthly unique visitors.
> 
> When it was said almost nothing was collected that wasn't a joke.
> 

I'll try to clarify what geni is saying. The Wikimedia Foundation relies 
exclusively on donations and has a very tight budget. It can only buy as 
much hardware as it can afford, and can only just afford enough to keep 
the sites running. (The toolserver had to be donated separately).

The resources just aren't available to completely log all site traffic - 
it would require scripts to process the mess of data generated at a fast 
enough pace to keep up without using up precious CPU time, and a whole 
load of extra disk space to store this data.

It's not possible to just "release all log data", because it doesn't exist.

-Gurch