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Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware
Edit This Page writes "Jimmy Wales announced today that Yahoo! has ordered 23 HP servers for the Wikimedia Foundation. The three database servers are model DL 385, and will come with dual Athlons, 8GB of RAM, and 6x 146GB 15K RPM drives each. They will also provide rackspace and bandwidth. The announcement comes four months after Google's announcement of support, and two months after Yahoo's own. Google has not yet made their intentions clear. You can read more about the specifications of what will soon be a 100+ server cluster at the Wikimedia Servers wiki article."
All Google has done is hand-waving so far.
On the other hand, Yahoo has been one of the earliest Wikipedia supporters according to TFA.
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Only on Slashdot would Yahoo's donation be compared unfavorably to Google, when Yahoo has actually provided something, and Google has merely mentioned it.
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That is not an example of a bad article at all. It is not a GNAA troll, but rather a descriptive an informative article on what the GNAA is. Wikipedia has many faults, but that fact that it covers topics that other encyclopedias don't is one of its strengths. If you are doing serious work, Wikipedia is not the place to go, but neither is Britannica.
English is easier said than done.
If Yahoo is a "me too" move, Google was a "look how good we are" move.
Regardless, it's good for not only the administrators, but obviously for their large user base too.
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Have you looked at the MediaWiki features? There's tons of dynamic features. What doesn't hit he cache, goes to the DB. Wikipedia is 67th in the Alexa ratings (Slashdot is 1,441th, of course not too many slashdotters use Alexa, but check some of the other sites, CNN is in the 20s, and Wikipedia gets more traffic in a day than /. gets in a month).
Additionally, Wikipedia's lag is a dampening factor to its popularity. As more servers are added, it becomes more responsive, servers go to capacity again, and yet more hardware is needed.
True, but think about it, what is the truth for non technical things?
Before wiki and the 'net in general made content become alive, and coming from whatever source, all such discussions were lost. The winner of the argument, or more likely, the one with the arguments that were more pleasing for the ones in charge, would win and get published and later become part of what is taught in schools.
With wikipedia the argument is part of the content and being critic of what you read is a good exercise for the mind.
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