[Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Relocation Announcement

[Mark Bergsma]

Delirium wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> For readers Wikipedia is usually quite quick. It doesn't have the help
>> of an Akamai server 4ms away from you, but a typical random wikipedia
>> page will make only 4 or 5 http requests vs 49 for the BBC home page
> 
> But since the whole *point* of Wikipedia is a project to produce a free 
> encyclopedia, what exactly is the purpose of comparing its speed after 
> I'm logged out? If the goal is just to serve up read-only copies 
> quickly, any mirror can do that.

What is the point comparing it to a read-only news website that is 
globally mirrored using static copies then? :)

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