Mailing List Archive: Wikipedia: Wikitech

WMF decommissions servers

Index | Next | Previous | View Threaded

mike.lifeguard at gmail

Sep 15, 2009, 11:00 AM

Post #1 of 6 (926 views)
Permalink

WMF decommissions servers

-----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 put it to good use, please see
http://tinyurl.com/r3xhp7 and send your request in.

Many thanks to the tech team (in particular RobH - looks like he's
handling most or all of this) for reaching out to community members
first. I'm sure we can find happy homes for lots of this hardware, which
will help community members be productive in helping achieve Wikimedia's
mission.

- -Mike
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAkqv1iAACgkQst0AR/DaKHtN8gCdEMaFLzmPRQQcz0f3d2vCajJI
woIAn1PV0fN9uvoKoobFMmB/kt0LmxYJ
=VrGB
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l [at] lists
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

karun at fastmail

Mar 30, 2010, 6:02 AM

Post #2 of 6 (629 views)
Permalink

Re: WMF decommissions servers [In reply to]

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 being deleted is increasing.

Even recently I noticed that there is proposals for deletions on
Wikipedia of article about the Australian National University and its
colleges, as apparently they are not notable enough and all should be
merged into one article.

Regards
Karun

>
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:00 -0300, "Mike.lifeguard"
> <mike.lifeguard [at] gmail> wrote:
> > -----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 put it to good use, please see
> > http://tinyurl.com/r3xhp7 and send your request in.
> >
> > Many thanks to the tech team (in particular RobH - looks like he's
> > handling most or all of this) for reaching out to community members
> > first. I'm sure we can find happy homes for lots of this hardware, which
> > will help community members be productive in helping achieve Wikimedia's
> > mission.
> >
> > - -Mike
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
> >
> > iEYEARECAAYFAkqv1iAACgkQst0AR/DaKHtN8gCdEMaFLzmPRQQcz0f3d2vCajJI
> > woIAn1PV0fN9uvoKoobFMmB/kt0LmxYJ
> > =VrGB
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikitech-l mailing list
> > Wikitech-l [at] lists
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
> >
>

_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l [at] lists
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

thomas.dalton at gmail

Mar 30, 2010, 6:20 AM

Post #3 of 6 (635 views)
Permalink

Re: WMF decommissions servers [In reply to]

On 30 March 2010 14:02, Karun Dambiec <karun [at] fastmail> 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. 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.

_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l [at] lists
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

midom.lists at gmail

Mar 30, 2010, 6:24 AM

Post #4 of 6 (634 views)
Permalink

Re: WMF decommissions servers [In reply to]

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 has stopped for few years already - now it is way more manageable and fits into Moore's laws ;-)

Domas
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l [at] lists
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

innocentkiller at gmail

Mar 30, 2010, 6:30 AM

Post #5 of 6 (636 views)
Permalink

Re: WMF decommissions servers [In reply to]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Karun Dambiec <karun [at] fastmail> 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 amount new content is decreasing,
> and the amount of articles being deleted is increasing.
>
> Even recently I noticed that there is proposals for deletions on
> Wikipedia of article about the Australian National University and its
> colleges, as apparently they are not notable enough and all should be
> merged into one article.
>
> Regards
> Karun
>
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:00 -0300, "Mike.lifeguard"
>> <mike.lifeguard [at] gmail> wrote:
>> > -----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 put it to good use, please see
>> > http://tinyurl.com/r3xhp7 and send your request in.
>> >
>> > Many thanks to the tech team (in particular RobH - looks like he's
>> > handling most or all of this) for reaching out to community members
>> > first. I'm sure we can find happy homes for lots of this hardware, which
>> > will help community members be productive in helping achieve Wikimedia's
>> > mission.
>> >
>> > - -Mike
>> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
>> >
>> > iEYEARECAAYFAkqv1iAACgkQst0AR/DaKHtN8gCdEMaFLzmPRQQcz0f3d2vCajJI
>> > woIAn1PV0fN9uvoKoobFMmB/kt0LmxYJ
>> > =VrGB
>> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Wikitech-l mailing list
>> > Wikitech-l [at] lists
>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
>> >
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-l mailing list
> Wikitech-l [at] lists
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
>

On another point, deleting articles does not free up space.
All the old revisions are still in the database.

-Chad

_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l [at] lists
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

dgerard at gmail

Mar 30, 2010, 9:36 AM

Post #6 of 6 (633 views)
Permalink

Re: WMF decommissions servers [In reply to]

On 30 March 2010 14:02, Karun Dambiec <karun [at] fastmail> 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 amount new content is decreasing,
> and the amount of articles being deleted is increasing.

Your understanding of servers, MediaWiki, Wikipedia and English
Wikipedia is such that I can only wish you an excellent and productive
life elsewhere.

- d.

_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l [at] lists
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Index | Next | Previous | View Threaded

Interested in having your list archived? Contact Gossamer Threads