[Toolserver-l] Troubles with reading Articles

Tue Mar 28 00:32:28 UTC 2006

Gregory,

I'm new on toolserver and on this list. Just wanted to drop a sign of
live...

On Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:39 AM Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> At first we lost it because of a disk failure. I'd gone dark for a few
> weeks and when I came back the cause had been changed to moving the
> text to external DBs.
> 
> I've asked, but never received answers, as to why we can't either
> replicate these externals stores.
> 
> I'm pretty much to the point where I've abandoned my toolserver
> account, and when it expires April first I won't be asking for it to
> be extended ... I don't even know who I'd ask now.

I've had some email contact to all german responders of this thread (i.e.
Daniel, Jakob, Christia). They told me, admins are there but quite busy,
especially superadmin Kate. 

And Daniel Baur (DaB) and Daniel Kinzler (Duesentrieb) are working on a
solution (WikiProxy?). They have been really helpful but they didn't tell me
when it's expected to be completed earliest :-<

> [...] I wouldn't have any problem making a system with
> more resources than toolserver available for public use...  But my
> request there has also been ignored.

That's my dilemma too. 

> I'm more than a little tired of wasting my time trying to contribute
> to a project where getting even the most basic assistance from the
> powers that be is effectively impossible.  I've never asked anyone to
> do anything, except the most minimal set of tasks that I lack the
> authority to perform myself. ...Sigh...

Why nobody - especially the superadmin - is able to drop a line here is
contrasting to the sponsoring money de.Wikipedia obviously gets. It's seems
to be part of the problem of claim and reality of Wikipedia.

I'm giving _one_ weeks time to the colleagues here to solve the technical
problem of mirroring. To my humble point of view this is still finally an
organisational problem...

-- Stefan