Let's comment on the issue, not on the people
It's true that there wasn't lot of time to prepare this and that what Thomas asked for, replace live site using a static content, is not so easy. While there are many benefits (especially, mind the traffic - full content overwritten with extra banner) from having a static page instead of live site, replaced with javascript window I don't believe it was possible to prepare such a site so fast and properly test if shutdown of whole english wikipedia for that time, wouldn't break other systems. Also it would be much harder to keep the content of static site updated regarding to request made during the blackout.
I believe that operation team did a great work during the protest and I know myself that lot of them spent whole night just by keeping an eye on the whole cluster which was heavily impacted by this action and needed many immediate updates done by them.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:41 PM, William Allen Simpson < william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/19/12 8:06 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
I'm sorry. but this is silly. I have a hard time believing that you aren't simply trolling here.
Personally, I decided to stop responding to Thomas Dalton some time
ago. Many of his rants seem to be trolling. Typical college freshman, knows more than the rest of us.
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