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

[Steve Summit]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>Steve Summit 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.
>
> 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.

No, that's just what I doubt we could handle.  We're on the edge
of our capacity a lot, these days, I think, and while I don't
know how many Google Earth users there are out there and how
often they're going to be clicking on these new Wikipedia
placemarks, it could be a *lot*.