Jeroen wrote:
Hello,
Proberly some of you will flame me, but I will take that for granted.
Disagreement is not a flame if it is done respectfully.
My idea is to combine all the European language
wikipedia's (except english
and maybe spanish and portuguese) on one server and using one database,
located somewhere in Europe.
Here is why:
* We will not be depending on the US anymore.
I'm as critical as any foreigner (relative to the US) about their
policies, but that alone does not make the case for the move. Ideally,
it should not make any difference where the server(s) is located if we
are operating in a global environment As a Canadian I would be just as
concerned about having the French Wikipedia dominated by European interests.
Of course, I still think that it would be worthwhile to have every
Wikipedia automatically backed up in a second country. This sort of
reflects a street smart self-preservation instinct. Given the
centralizing tendencies in the European Community and it's love for
bureaucracy, anything based in the EC would have to be backed up outside
that community since any two countries in the EC are now different in
name only.
- As this can be considered a political issue, it is
mostly a technical
issue. Because when there are problems, we (Europeans) can solve this on
hours, people in the US are still at sleep. This also includes fixing
things on location.
This is a round the clock operation. Hopefully, problems requiring
on-location attention will remain very few, but we can expect long
waitsin those cases no matter when the problem arises.
- Also the performance will not be influenced by the
English-language
wikipedia.
This is not an argument for moving out of the US; only for moving them
to another server.
Eclecticology