An'n 04.09.2010 01:15, hett Roan Kattouw schreven:
2010/9/4 Marcus Buckwiki@marcusbuck.org:
But I also see several features that are aimed solely at the Wikimedia employees, like media storage architecture, monitoring, resource loader, CentralNotice, Analytics, Selenium deployment, CiviCRM upgrade, and fraud prevention.
I don't want to say that these projects are bad ideas. They are certainly very good ideas. But they have no big advantages to the average wiki user.
So you're saying the average wiki user doesn't care about higher site uptime and faster responses to downtime (monitoring), a sustainable and more performant infrastructure for file uploads and downloads (media storage) or making our wikis load faster (resource loader)?
Also, while fundraising (CentralNotice, CiviCRM and the fraud prevention thing are all part of this) isn't directly interesting for most users, it does pay for the servers that keep Wikipedia up.
Citing the message you are responding to: "I don't want to say that these projects are bad ideas. They are certainly very good ideas."
I like higher site uptime, but even in the worst times Wikipedia always was up for read access for - I guess - about 95% of the time.
And I find it interesting that you say that fundraisers are necessary to keep the servers up. The fundraiser is planned to earn over 15 million $ between November and January. The rates in other months are at about 0.2 million $. 12 months at 0.2 million each are 2.4 million $ in non-fundraiser donations. Hosting only costs 1.837 million $. So the servers wouldn't go down without a fundraiser. Of course I support the Fundraiser, but I don't accept it as a valid reason if you tell me that it is necessary to delay projects that improve the actual _content of our projects_.
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