[Wikipedia-l] Is a press release now a good idea?

Matthew Woodcraft mattheww at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun Sep 28 21:09:25 UTC 2003


Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> True - only ask for more users when the servers are at the bottom, not the
> top, of their capacity.

I'm not sure the servers will ever be under the top of their capacity
for long.

If the limiting factor on Wikipedia's growth is people's tolerance for
slow edits, the effect of faster hardware will be more activity (which
is great), but not a faster user experience after things have settled
down.

-M-




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