[Wikipedia-l] language limited funding/donation

[Brion Vibber]

Isam Bayazidi wrote:
> Do I understand from this that the Mediawiki software have a limitation 
> in that regard ? I thought that there is already somehow a distribution 
> for the servers between English and non-English wikipedias.. as 
> sometimes English work, while other langs don't.. and in other times 
> non-English work fine, while English is not..
> 
> Does all Wikipedias currently share the same resources with equal 
> priorities ? or there is already certain setups that are made for Large 
> wikipedias such as English and German ?

Everything shares the same servers. The only partial exception to this 
at present is the front-end squid cache machines, which are roughly 
divided between English Wikipedia (plus a couple of small wikis) and 
Everything Else (including the couple of small wikis on the other 
machine). Sometimes these are served by the same machine during 
maintenance, or which machine is which may swap.

The only reason there's a split right now is that there was something 
weird with our DNS service that doesn't let us declare both IP addresses 
for the *.wikipedia.org hosts. This should change when we move over to 
our own DNS server, which was supposed to happen months ago but is 
waiting on... something? I'm not sure of the details. I think the 
secondary DNS backup server has to get set up somewhere.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)