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

[Anthere]

Jimbo, I just read what you wrote about cultural bias, deny, confirm or 
infirm. Yes, that might be cultural biais. Who knows ? Possibly. But I 
was not only talking of the main page, just of regular pages. Yes, I was 
always logged in. I really had this feeling a couple of weeks ago, when 
it was so slow. I remember several times, around 7pm (in France), giving 
up the fr wikipedia, to go to meta or en, because access was quicker.
I also had many "no db access" and when I asked people on irc, it seems 
they had less than I.
This is not the case now.
Now, I see rather that the new little wikimedia.org takes huge time to load.

> 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
>