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2009/5/15 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com>:

> Google has an hour of slow service and it's headline news. Imagine the
> donations we could get if our downtime (which, as David is fond of
> saying, is our most profitable product) got into the headlines!


Originally a Jimbo quote :-)


- d.

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Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Google has an hour of slow service and it's headline news. Imagine the
> donations we could get if our downtime (which, as David is fond of
> saying, is our most profitable product) got into the headlines!

Do Wikinews headlines count? =]

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers_unreachable_for_3_hours_due_to_network_outage

-Mark

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On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Delirium <delirium@hackish.org> wrote:

> Do Wikinews headlines count? =]
>

If there are enough people reading it, it will bring a lot of donations....
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2009/5/16 Delirium <delirium@hackish.org>:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Google has an hour of slow service and it's headline news. Imagine the
>> donations we could get if our downtime (which, as David is fond of
>> saying, is our most profitable product) got into the headlines!
>
> Do Wikinews headlines count? =]
>
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers_unreachable_for_3_hours_due_to_network_outage

Certainly better than nothing, but I think a real press release is the
best way to get it in multiple sources where it is likely to be seen
by a large number of potential donors. Also, that article doesn't
include the words "give us all your money" anywhere, so it isn't much
good!

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On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Chen Minqi <cnchenminqi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Delirium <delirium@hackish.org> wrote:
>
>> Do Wikinews headlines count? =]
>>
>
> If there are enough people reading it, it will bring a lot of donations....

Do we have per-page pageview stats on Wikinews ?

The overall stats for en.wikinews appear <s>stagnant</s> stable.

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm

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John Vandenberg

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On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:34 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we have per-page pageview stats on Wikinews ?

Here: http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikinews/en/

They're used in http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Popular_articles

Angela

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