User:Jarcanist/MediaWiki leadership

22:43, 28 March 2006 (UTC):

Message: 4 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:39:22 -0500 From: "Gregory Maxwell"  Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Troubles with reading Articles To: toolserver-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On 3/25/06, Rob Church  wrote: > Clearly, given I was under the impression Kate was in charge, someone > needs to step forward and state who *is*. > > As has been pointed out several times before, part of the text access > problem is that Wikimedia now stores text in external storage > clusters, a feature of MediaWiki written for that purpose. And Zedler > can't get at them. > > A sensible, practical suggestion is needed, and soon. And > administrators to answer the queries would be helpful; after all, we > could all have it pegged down wrong.

At first we lost it because of a disk failure. I'd gone dark for a few weeks and when I came back the cause had been changed to moving the text to external DBs.

I've asked, but never received answers, as to why we can't either replicate these externals stores.

I'm pretty much to the point where I've abandoned my toolserver account, and when it expires April first I won't be asking for it to be extended ... I don't even know who I'd ask now.

Because of the unresponsiveness of these matters I have, in the past inquired about receiving an OAI feed... an advantage of using a live updated feed rather than replication is that I could run an analysis database on PostgreSQL or Oracle, both of which are far more suited to the use than MySQL. I wouldn't have any problem making a system with more resources than toolserveral available for public use... But my request there has also been ignored.

I'm more than a little tired of wasting my time trying to contribute to a project where getting even the most basic assistance from the powers that be is effectively impossible. I've never asked anyone to do anything, except the most minimal set of tasks that I lack the authority to perform myself. ...Sigh...