[Foundation-l] We're not quite at Google's level

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/16 Delirium <delirium at hackish.org>:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Google has an hour of slow service and it's headline news. Imagine the
>> donations we could get if our downtime (which, as David is fond of
>> saying, is our most profitable product) got into the headlines!
>
> Do Wikinews headlines count? =]
>
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers_unreachable_for_3_hours_due_to_network_outage

Certainly better than nothing, but I think a real press release is the
best way to get it in multiple sources where it is likely to be seen
by a large number of potential donors. Also, that article doesn't
include the words "give us all your money" anywhere, so it isn't much
good!