[WikiEN-l] new Google Earth tie-in (!!)

[The Cunctator]

Is it even legal for them to use the stashed copy? That seems to potentially
violate the GFDL in any number of ways.

On 12/13/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We (and they) are in a rock-and-a-hard-place situation.  It's
> > good that they're working from their own stashed copy instead of
> > hitting us live, because I doubt our servers could handle their
> > users' load.  But of course on the other hand it's supremely
> > annoying that they're working from their own stashed copy,
> > because (as you note and I emphatically agree) our lovely
> > instantaneous wiki-quick edit-save-test loop is broken.
>
> Why can't we have the best of both worlds? They get the co-ordinates
> from the database dumps, but when a user clicks on the globe icon they
> get the live page. We should be able to handle the load if our servers
> are only hit when a user actually tries to read the page.
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