Isam Bayazidi wrote: It is my belief that the speed/performance/features for all the mediawikis are currently equivalent. The only exception to that may be some latency due to sheer distance and the speed of light around the globe, but I believe that this is relatively minor. (However, I do suppose that if a particular nation or area is not well-connected to the new, a local squid would boost them a fair amount.) The best possibility, technologically, to do what your potential donor wants to do, is to host a squid in your area, on an experimental basis perhaps, so that we can see if it makes a positive difference. I think that this is likely, i.e. that there will be language-limited donation offers. And we do need to discuss what to do about that. We are a global project, and I would like to encourage donors to think globally as well. From the point of view of global efficiency, then for the most part, language-specific donations aren't going to help much -- the most efficient architecture is one which clusters, not one which divides. At the same time, of course, I do recognize that donors care about what *they* care about, and frequently of course this would be their own language wikipedia. That's not a bad thing, it's only natural. And I don't want to discourage donors who want to help -- particularly not if the alternative is to have them fund a fork out of frustration. THIS PART IS IMPORTANT -- $20,000 of new hardware is ordered and will be here within 2 week or so. This includes a more powerful database server with faster CPUs, faster hard drives. Our existing database server will still be here, so we will go from one strong machine to two strong machines. Additionally, I've order 4 1U servers which will be adapted and customized for roles as apache's, squids, fileservers, whatever we need. I also hope that 1 or 2 of them will be sitting idle as "universal hot spares" so that we can quickly configure them to take on a role while we work on any other machines that are down. --Jimbo