Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF decommissions servers

2010-03-30 Thread David Gerard
On 30 March 2010 14:02, Karun Dambiec wrote: >  Are these the servers that wikipedia no longer require due to the >  increasing number of >  deletions being made recently? >  As of today, I will no longer be contributing to MediaWiki through >  bugfixes. >  The reason for this being that: the amo

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF decommissions servers

2010-03-30 Thread Chad
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Karun Dambiec wrote: > >  Are these the servers that wikipedia no longer require due to the >  increasing number of >  deletions being made recently? >  As of today, I will no longer be contributing to MediaWiki through >  bugfixes. >  The reason for this being tha

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF decommissions servers

2010-03-30 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi, > No. There are far more articles created every day than are deleted. > These servers have just been replaced by newer models. The total > number of servers keeps increasing, but there are always going to be > old servers that aren't worth the costs to keep running. at least the crazy growth

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF decommissions servers

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 30 March 2010 14:02, Karun Dambiec wrote: > >  Are these the servers that wikipedia no longer require due to the >  increasing number of >  deletions being made recently? No. There are far more articles created every day than are deleted. These servers have just been replaced by newer models.

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF decommissions servers

2010-03-30 Thread Karun Dambiec
Are these the servers that wikipedia no longer require due to the increasing number of deletions being made recently? As of today, I will no longer be contributing to MediaWiki through bugfixes. The reason for this being that: the amount new content is decreasing, and the amount of articles

[Wikitech-l] WMF decommissions servers

2009-09-15 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I wanted to let folks know that WMF is decommissioning some 35 servers, and is willing to accept requests from users interested in using them for Wikimedia-related purposes. If you can ship a server from Tampa to where you are, and if you can p