[Wikipedia-l] language limited funding/donation

[Guillaume Blanchard]

To reassure you, the French Wikipedia (and all Wikipedia, I think) are using
"feature-stripped mediawiki" ;o)

I really hope all those features (search, SQL access, maintenance pages,
etc.) will be re-enabled when new servers will arrive (when?).

By the way, I friend tell me that Google (a read-only site) started with
about 5000 machines (actually more than 10 times more). What it is our
near/far future plane?



Aoineko


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isam Bayazidi" <isam at bayazidi.net>
To: <wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 7:57 AM
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] language limited funding/donation


> 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 hope I will get a clear response, as my previous attempts to reach for
> a response did not give me one..
>
> Yours
> Isam Bayazidi
> Arabic Wikipedia
> Amman - Jordan
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