[WikiEN-l] Re: Fork risk (was Re: Google ads)

[Anthere]

I can just say one thing I saw myself, and which was mentionned by 
several french people.

When I have several windows open at the same moment, say three

*one open on en
*one open on fr
*one open on www.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main Page


The first page to load in en.
Several seconds later, it is fr.
And much later wikimedia.

I cant avoid seeing that en pages are often served much quicker than fr 
pages.
I know not why. I am sure it is not on purpose. But it is a fact.


Thomas R. Koll wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:55PM +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
> 
>>If a Wikimedia chapter wants to buy servers for their language wiki to 
>>avoid slow, poor-quality service or site-wide advertising, then we 
>>should give them our blessing.
> 
> 
> I'd prefer read-only mirrors which redirect the edits to the main
> server. I don't know the situation at fr: but at de: we use wikipedia.de
> not de.wikipedia.org in press news, so it would be easy to take some
> good portion of the traffic off the Florida-servers.
> 
> ciao, tom