Jimmy Wales wrote:
(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.
squid will help when there is more reading than writing .. for the
Wikipedia.. for small Wikis, probably there is more writing than
reading.. with editing and writing, squid won't have much effect I guess
(unless I don't fully understand the purpose of squid)
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.
If it is technically possible, and the funding cover all costs of it,
it will be great to open such door, as Wikipedians will start to look
for local donors who may be interested to support that language
Wikipedia, and probably, this will help to make the "global" resources
and donations more effective in terms of resource sharing.
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.
I am no expert here, but in simple language, how much boost in the speed
Wikipedia will have ? 10% ? 50% ? more ?
and will those additions allow things like the "Search" to be enabled ?
or "Search" is resource eating in a way that we will not see it back any
time soon ?
Yours
Isam Bayazidi