[Wikipedia-l] language limited funding/donation

[daniwo59 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/7/2004 5:55:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
isam at bayazidi.net writes:
Hi all..
In the Arabic Wikipedia (as with other Wikipedias) we suffer from poor 
speed/performance, and a feature-stripped mediawiki (search-disabled and 
so).. Anyhow, one of the members in the Arabic Wikipedia contacted me, 
telling me that he can get Server power, and cover yearly costs for 
Bandwidth/placement in a data-center.. But he said that he wanted to 
have that server/bandwidth dedicated to the Arabic Wikipedia..

I wanted to know about the possibility of that.. is it "Technically" 
possible ? of course, everything is under the Mediawiki foundation 
umbrella, and server full access will be only for the mediawiki 
developers in charge of such thing..

If that is absolutely not possible.. will it be possible to have a new 
server added to the existing server farm, having it's cost covered, but 
enabling all the nice feature for Arabic Wikipedia (after all we are 
only 650 articles or so), and have a certain priority for Arabic 
Wikipedia, while having the server doing what other servers do ?

The current performance/speed/status of Arabic Wikipedia (and other 
wikipedias) is not a very good one.. and sooner or later 
Language-limited donations will come, and they will be have to be dealt 
with.. after all, full control is, and will always be, in the hand of 
the mediawiki developers/admins .. the only difference is that the 
server layer will be differently organized in a way to allow to dedicate 
resources to wikipedias..



I dont see why it should be a problem, but I would add a stipulation--that 
the Arabic server take another small Wiki under its wing (and server), so as to 
prevent a fork, and help the folks there grow too. 

BTW, Arabic is growing remarkably well, and I want to thank Isam for all his 
efforts there.

Danny. 
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