{"id":42,"date":"2005-02-12T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/02\/12\/googlicious-wikipedal-fun\/"},"modified":"2005-02-12T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2005-02-12T11:37:41","slug":"googlicious-wikipedal-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/02\/12\/googlicious-wikipedal-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Googlicious Wikipedal Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot<\/a> <\/span>has a story about it.  The New York Times (NYT<\/a> article, 2\/11) wrote about it.  Blogs and IRC chans<\/span> are buzzing about it.  Meta even has a page about it<\/a>, one<\/a> out of only 3,000.   What’s this all about?  Google <\/span>has offered Wikimedia<\/span>
\nsome hosting.  People seem to think this is the first hosting
\ndonation (it’s not), or the only such offer in the pipeline (there are
\nat least 3 others), or that only the few and the proud can offer
\nhosting at all (anyone with a small colo facility and goodwill can do
\nthe same).<\/p>\n

Just to clear things up a little, here is an overview of Wikimedia partners and hosts<\/a>.  And a separate page where anyone can offer to host Wikimedia content<\/a>.   There are already a handful of good static mirrors<\/span>, a center <\/span>in
\nParis donating  machines and hosting (handling requests from the
\nUK and northern Europe), and a hosting deal being worked out with an educational group<\/span>
\nin the Netherlands.  Google is just more exciting because they’re
\nso damn cool, and because they can move quickly if something is worked
\nout (in contrast, the Paris arrangement spent almost half a year in
\nlimbo between the acceptance of their offer and the first transfer of
\ntraffic to the new location).<\/p>\n

See also presroi’s thoughts<\/a> on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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