Jimbo wrote:
>It is my belief that the next round of upgrades, i.e. the
>big Opteron server for $6,000 that we will buy once
>contributions reach a high enough level, will give us
>around 10x our October 1st capacity. That's substantial,
>and we'll take a while to outgrow that. And in the
>meantime, we'll be constantly raising money to stay
>ahead of the curve.
Sweet! But what should be our headline announcement?
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia's_first_press_release is announcing
our 300,000th article, but that is based on the article count of only our
MediaWiki Wikipedia versions. It does not count the 20,000+ articles still
under UseMod (we missed the real 300,000 milestone because we simply were not
ready yet). It may just be me, but I think at this point we should just wait
a couple to a few weeks for the more inclusive and exciting-sounding "one
third of a million" milestone. The number of non-English articles should also
outnumber the English ones by then, so we could also announce that.
What do others think? This could be something we allow each Wikipedia version
to decide on its own (en.wikipedia already had a X00,000 press release this
year, so something a bit different would be nice, at least for en.wikipedia).
But that may be confusing for multilingual press and readers given the
different article counts.
But before we decide on anything, could somebody check my math here
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics#2003_Statis…
? I may have overcounted the UseMod wikis....
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
I think it is now not a good time for a general press relase.
- search does not work
- wikipedia is very slow
- the logo-stuff, who is willing to explain that to a visitor?
- only gifts by paypall
- no need for more publictiy Look at the stats, every month more and more
users.
--
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Thomas R. Koll wrote:
>How about restricting the press release to
>foreign languages? Doubling German users
>is not that heavy like doubling English users.
Well the non-English versions are going to be released a week before the
English one either way. The big thing I'm waiting for is the server upgrades.
As soon as that happens we should go ahead and distribute the non-English
press releases (with the English version following a week later).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Have there been any updates on the german Wikipedia Software since yesterday,
or ist this a problems arising out of the server crash?
When moving a page, I'll get this message:
Es gab einen Syntaxfehler in der Datenbankabfrage. Die letzte Datenbankabfrage
lautete: "UPDATE LOW_PRIORITY searchindex SET si_title='europäische
wildkatze' WHERE si_page=19358" aus der Funktion "SearchUpdate::doUpdate".
MySQL meldete den Fehler: "1016: Can't open file: 'searchindex.MYI'. (errno:
145)".
However, the page seems to have been moved correctly.
Uli
Sorry about the downtime today; everything _should_ now be back up and
running.
On first look this seems to be similar to the crashes we've gotten on
the server all too frequently since we acquired it: one of the disks
froze up and wouldn't respond anymore until the machine was rebooted --
which was complicated by the machine not being willing to reboot until
it had cleanly unmounted the disks, which it couldn't do because it had
to wait until the disk responded...
Anyway, the parts for upgrades should be arriving over the next few days
and the machine can be rebuilt early next week. If the problem is
related to the motherboard, that should resolve it once and for all.
If it's a problem inherent to the disks, well, that won't help, but
it'll reboot faster! ;) And we'll have a better idea where the problem
lays.
Since it was the secondary disk that halted this time, not the primary,
we did get some info in the logs. If anyone out there is familiar with
decoding SCSI failures on Linux, I posted a log extract on wikitech-l:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-October/006314.html
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Vancouverguy wrote:
>Umm...it's been giving me an intermittent "503
Service Temporarily Unavailable" error.
That is because there is a limit on how many pages you
can open within a certain time period. The limit is
currently very low to prevent overloading the server.
You just have to work really slow or go off to make
coffee every so often. It's driving me mad, but I
expect the limit will be raised when the new server
comes. Sometimes changing browser will solve it. In
Mozilla, I am totally banned from editing for a few
minutes, but if I then switch to IE, it often lets me
edit, (but sometimes doesn't let me write anything in
the edit summary field). Strange.
Angela.
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I've just gotten word that Jason will be going to San Diego tonight to
upgrade the machines! Of course, nothing ever goes wrong with
hardware upgrades, and computers always work, so we can expect to be
fully upgraded and functional very quickly.
Or, reality check, let's all hope for the best. :-)
--Jimbo
I hereby resign my role as contest coordinator, as the
original contest is finished, but will provide
assistance if necessary for any new vote.
Regards,
Erik
Since I criticize a couple of time, I wanted to say
thanks for the great job nevertheless.
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As both a check on the election results, and as a demonstration of
pairwise voting, I decided to do the following:
* Download the ballots cast in this contest
* Run them through a program I wrote to parse them into a format
I'm used to working with (with candidate translation list I manually
created).
* Tally the votes using the Condorcet calculator
In using this technique, the winner of this election remains the same
(1a). However, it's still interesting to see the nature of the pairwise
matchups. In particular, the race for second place was really close
(option 2c beat option 10 by five votes). It was even closer before I
noticed I missed the international ballots (without those ballots, 10
beat 2c by a vote).
You can see the complete results here:
http://www.electorama.com/2003/wplogo-pairwise/
Rob
The new logo has been ratified by all Wikipedias. I have asked
Paullusmagnus (the designer) to make the final modifications he deems
necessary in accordance with the requests of various people who have made
comments and will then replace the logos on the servers. I have asked him
to create three different additional variants of the subtitle "Wikipedia",
namely French, Latin and Esperanto. (I personally think it's very bad that
the name is different in these languages. Many people have expressed a
strong desire to keep the differences, though.) Further language variants
may be designed as needed.
In the past weeks, substantially different implementations and variations
of the same logo concept have been created. Please take a look at them at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_logo_variants
I believe Nohat's variants are especially noteworthy. However, these are
not the logos people have voted for and it is doubtful that consensus can
be reached to use one of them instead of the current one. I will be happy
to be proven wrong here and encourage informal opinion polls in the next
weeks to figure out how people feel about these logos.
Failing consensus, given the current voter fatigue, I suggest revisiting
the issue one or two months from now. This gives us enough time to work on
new and exciting variants, and at that point, we may decide to hold
another vote on whether we want to replace the current concept
implementation or keep it. I hereby resign my role as contest coordinator,
as the original contest is finished, but will provide assistance if
necessary for any new vote.
Regards,
Erik