[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l digest, Vol 1 #212 - 14 msgs

[Zoe]

Not only that, but it doesn't differntiate between a character string in a title and a character string in an article.  And it includes postings to the mailing list, which we may not want to publicize.
Zoe
 Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:> If the search feature is slowing down the site, I think using Google
> would be a satisfactory permanent alternative. We've been using it
> for years at the PR Watch web site, with no complaints.

I'm very much against this. Having search results in realtime is of 
crucial importance for serious article work to avoid duplicates. The 
Google spider only comes ever so often and misses a lot. PR Watch is one 
thing, Wikipedia is a couple orders of magnitude bigger, though. As a 
very, very temporary hack, the Google search is fine. But we need to get 
the realtime search (with wikisource no less!) back up and running ASAP.

If we have to disable critical features to keep the site running, we may 
as well disable editing altogether until we have raised enough money to 
buy a bigger server and/or hire developers.

As for optimization, there are still a few things we need to do, but we 
also have to keep in mind that a single server is now running all language 
Wikipedias + meta, and all of them are growing fast (faster now that 
Google indexes us again). I hope we have the nonprofit setup soon, and if 
we can't get it setup, we should start raising donations without an 
organization. Kuro5hin raised 35000 dollars in a few days -- I'm not sure 
if we can get that high, but we should certainly try.

Regards,

Erik
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