[Foundation-l] Technical aspects of forking (was: 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter)

[David Gerard]

On 17 September 2011 15:50, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> My first instincts for de.wikipedia would be to note down
> de.wikipedia's usage statistics, get a bunch of techies together, and
> all go have a nice chat with say hetzner.de, to figure out roughly what
> things will cost. You can always start a bit small and work your way
> up.


Starting small is *most definitely* the way to go. Citizendium burned
through enough funding for *20 years* in three years by ridiculously
overestimating their server needs.


- d.