[Foundation-l] Lost money

Thu Apr 20 13:47:47 UTC 2006

On 4/19/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Jakob Voss wrote:
> > Uhm, the problem that people may like to donate when servers are down
> > but cannot do so when servers are down is known for ... years? Why is
> > wikimediafoundation.org still hosted at Wikimedia's own server
> > farm?
>
> Because it will take a million years to get permission from the board to get
> additional hosting. ;)
>
Just hide it in Jimbo's travel expense budget.  ;)

Seriously though, if you can serve a page which says "The Wikimedia
Foundation servers are currently experiencing technical
difficulties.", then you can serve a set of pages which provide enough
information for people to find out about the organization and lets
people make donations.  There's no reason a donation page has to be
dynamic.

Anthony