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thomas.dalton at gmail

May 15, 2009, 4:59 AM

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We're not quite at Google's level

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8051262.stm

Google has an hour of slow service and it's headline news. Imagine the
donations we could get if our downtime (which, as David is fond of
saying, is our most profitable product) got into the headlines!
Perhaps we should take to issuing press releases following server
problems.

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dgerard at gmail

May 15, 2009, 5:19 AM

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Re: We're not quite at Google's level [In reply to]

2009/5/15 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton[at]gmail.com>:

> Google has an hour of slow service and it's headline news. Imagine the
> donations we could get if our downtime (which, as David is fond of
> saying, is our most profitable product) got into the headlines!

Originally a Jimbo quote :-)

- d.

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delirium at hackish

May 16, 2009, 1:58 AM

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Re: We're not quite at Google's level [In reply to]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Google has an hour of slow service and it's headline news. Imagine the
> donations we could get if our downtime (which, as David is fond of
> saying, is our most profitable product) got into the headlines!

Do Wikinews headlines count? =]

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers_unreachable_for_3_hours_due_to_network_outage

-Mark

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cnchenminqi at gmail

May 16, 2009, 3:19 AM

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Re: We're not quite at Google's level [In reply to]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Delirium <delirium[at]hackish.org> wrote:

> Do Wikinews headlines count? =]
>

If there are enough people reading it, it will bring a lot of donations....
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thomas.dalton at gmail

May 16, 2009, 6:26 AM

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Re: We're not quite at Google's level [In reply to]

2009/5/16 Delirium <delirium[at]hackish.org>:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Google has an hour of slow service and it's headline news. Imagine the
>> donations we could get if our downtime (which, as David is fond of
>> saying, is our most profitable product) got into the headlines!
>
> Do Wikinews headlines count? =]
>
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers_unreachable_for_3_hours_due_to_network_outage

Certainly better than nothing, but I think a real press release is the
best way to get it in multiple sources where it is likely to be seen
by a large number of potential donors. Also, that article doesn't
include the words "give us all your money" anywhere, so it isn't much
good!

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jayvdb at gmail

May 16, 2009, 7:34 AM

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Re: We're not quite at Google's level [In reply to]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Chen Minqi <cnchenminqi[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Delirium <delirium[at]hackish.org> wrote:
>
>> Do Wikinews headlines count? =]
>>
>
> If there are enough people reading it, it will bring a lot of donations....

Do we have per-page pageview stats on Wikinews ?

The overall stats for en.wikinews appear <s>stagnant</s> stable.

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm

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John Vandenberg

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beesley at gmail

May 16, 2009, 8:59 AM

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Re: We're not quite at Google's level [In reply to]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:34 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we have per-page pageview stats on Wikinews ?

Here: http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikinews/en/

They're used in http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Popular_articles

Angela

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