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