[Toolserver-l] Golem issues

[Alex Rave]

Hello, all.
I'm from ru-wiki, i'm one of active members in Connectivity project.
I was very concerned when I learned that Golem can't work anymore because of
new limitation on Toolserver. Golem's data is a key part of Connectivity
project, which works about improving of Wikipedia quality. Connectivity
project works mostly in russian and ukrainian editions of WP, but Golem also
collects very useful information for every other language, except english,
which is too huge yet to analyse. Project's code is improving continuously,
for example two years ago, when ruwiki has about 250k of articles and
project's tools were few in number, analyse of ruwiki took about 2 hours,
and now, when ruwiki has 500k of articles and number of connectivity tools
is increased several times, it's required about 1 hour 40 minutes for
analyse. Improvement may go faster: there is only one programmer now in
project - Mashiah, and if anybody wants to help him and participate in code
improving, he is free to join. Our project needs any help from programmers.
We have noted that the number of isolated articles is directly related to
the authors' awareness of the lack of referencing articles . At certain
periods of time due to toolserver problems in February 2009 we were unable
to obtain timely data. During these periods the number of isolated articles
usually grows, and the growth gradually turns to decline once the Golem
being started to work again. So, it means, that any idle period of Golem
leads to a deterioration in the quality of articles.
The code will be improved in any case, sooner or later, but we want to try
all the ways for keeping Golem running during the optimization process. I
want to ask if hardware upgrade can resolve this problem? And if it's
possible, can you please estimate models and cost of required equipment?
Please, help us to help Wikipedia.
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