[Wikipedia-l] language limited funding/donation

[Brion Vibber]

Isam Bayazidi wrote:
> Alex Regh wrote:
>> However, my guess is also that this would require *a lot* of rewriting 
>> of the
>> software, so at best this can be a long-term option. But not one I'd 
>> dismiss
>> right away.
>>  
>>
> Do I understand from this that the Mediawiki software have a limitation 
> in that regard ?

Technically, we could set up every wiki on a separate server of its own. 
However this would be more difficult to administer, and would require 
300 servers in its strictest interpretation. ;) Since our resources are 
limited, we want to provide as much as we can to all wikis rather than 
favoring some, though generally we've put a lot more restrictions on the 
English Wikipedia because it's the biggest and takes the most resources.

I don't know any details about Akamai (which is what Alex was 
specifically talking about), but I believe it's some sort of distributed 
caching system. Our biggest problems are on the database and apache 
servers that do the work of dynamic page generation; more front-end 
caches would be less helpful.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)