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

[Allan Benamer]

Ok, I will just sit tight then. Thanks for the quick and straightforward
responses everyone! I didn't realize Wikimedia Foundation was so open and
transparent -- it's a heck of an example.

On 10/3/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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