[Foundation-l] Video on youtube

Mark Bergsma mark at wikimedia.org
Tue Oct 23 15:35:41 UTC 2007


Brian McNeil wrote:
> I appreciate video sucks up bandwidth like inhaling golfballs through a
> hosepipe, and as a result we need a backup that uses Akaimi (sp?) or
> similar. The comments on the YouTube video are almost all positive, so there
> doesn't really seem to be much desire to say "Wikipedia sucks" among the
> viewers. It is the relevance algorithm that is associating the videos in a
> way that isn't good.

Actually the amount of bandwidth that video is using currently is not 
visible at all in the statistics, so that's certainly not a problem at 
this point.

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Mark Bergsma <mark at wikimedia.org>
System & Network Administrator, Wikimedia Foundation



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