[Wikipedia-l] Re: German Wikipedia Inavailability/Hardware Status

[Arwel Parry]

In message <400588E3.1040805 at apple.com>, Stan Shebs 
<shebs-2kanFRK1NckAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes
>Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
>
>>>The replacement motherboard apparently didn't solve everything though,
>>>and it's been sent back again.
>>>
>>
>>So when do you exepct a new motherboard to arrive? These downtimes 
>>drive our contributors away, and are blocking us in getting new ones. 
>>I think this is really a serious issue. Since there are more than 
>>enough funds available now, I cannot understand why that much time is 
>>needed to get the system back to the status we had in the beginning of 
>>December. Sorry if that sounds a bit angry, but the german language 
>>Wikipedia is more or less unuseable since three weeks now.
>>
>Keep in mind that some of the December troubles might have been avoided if
>the new hardware had gotten more testing before being put online, so let's
>not be so impatient this time around. All the Wikipedias are slow, it's not
>just the German one.

Actually I'm finding the Welsh Wikipedia is running pretty well these 
last few days...

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Arwel Parry
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