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

[Casey Brown]

This has recently been discussed and we probably wouldn't consent to that
because it may give away too much private information.

On 10/3/07, Allan Benamer <abenamer at nonprofittechblog.org> wrote:
>
> Ahhh -- understood. I guess we'll just have to live with the estimates
> from
> Quantcast and Compete in the meantime. I have a question though -- if a
> service was willing to handle Wikipedia's load, would you use it? That is,
> if Quantcast offered to do statistics gathering for Wikimedia, would
> Wikimedia consent to it?
>
> On 10/3/07, Matthew Britton <matthew.britton at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
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