when these
kind of important and critical changes are made
by people from the other side of the Ocean, without consulting the
hardworking people on this side of the Atlantic, people can
become very upset. I can't feel anything of a community-feeling in
this way of
acting.
> Jeroen (Dutch Wikipedian)
Jeroen, if you have a better way to keep the server up and running at
decent speed, I *beg* you to share it with the development team.
We're all doing what we can to have Wikipedia up and available for
thousands of people to use in the best possible shape, but we have no paid
full-time or part-time developers or database admins, and little resources
for hardware upgrades except when Jimbo is able to kick in for another
server.
That means we're a small number of volunteers trying to keep the site
running FOR YOU in our spare time FOR FREE.
I'm sorry if that's not enough to keep a high-traffic site in peak
condition 24 hours a day seven days a week. I wish it were, and I hope
that you and others will help to make it so in the future by pitching in
with development and maintenance work and money for server upgrades.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)