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

[Sander Sepp]

I like the way it is now. Google's servers load the articles faster
than wikipedia servers do, at least for me in Europe. Using the live
articles would cause longer load times.

(first post for me in this list, I hope I posted correctly)

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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