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Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-whoop dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Also! by Jon+Chatow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unicode is assumed for 1.5, so all wikis will be converted as part of the transition process, including the English Wikipedia.

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  2. Re:required? by Canadian_Daemon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to Netcraft, /. is ranked 33, while Wikipedia is ranked 117.

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    This sig is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
  3. Re:required? by Pendersempai · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I saw a presentation by Jimbo Wales in which he compared the readership of Wikipedia, Slashdot, and NYTimes.com. Wikipedia recently passed NYTimes, and slashdot doesn't even compare. In fact, he noted with something of a smile that Wikipedia would probably bring Slashdot to its knees with a front-page link.

    Slashdot ain't got squat on Wikipedia.