半亩塘闲话

昨天google增加了他对于定义搜索的多语言支持，现在使用define:中国这样的语法，可以显示维基百科的内容。

而刚刚得到的消息：yahoo!捐赠了一定数量的主机给维基媒体基金会，并且会在今天开始进行测试。这个捐赠不会影响到维基百科的立场。

相关文章：

• Yahoo press release
• Wikimedia announcement.
• Jimmy Wales on the Yahoo! Search blog
• Slashdot article

出人意料，短短的两天时间，wikipedia的捐款已经达到了23000美元，甚至有人从欧洲电汇了1000美元。jimbo说，基金会的账户以每小时1000美元的速度增长，完全超出了原先估计需要一周时间才能达到的20000美元。

Letter to our readers and contributors
By Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation, Director
December 28, 2003

As you have all seen the past few days, we have been having technical difficulties. The essential problem is that we do not currently have enough hardware to cope with routine failures of any kind. When any one of our machines goes down, we experience cascading problems due in part to the excess load on the entire system.

The solution to this problem is to purchase now sufficient hardware to give us enough excess capacity so that we can be reliable. I estimate that $20,000 in hardware would get us to a point where we have reserves to handle the failure of any one machine. Additionally, we would be well-poised to continue our track record of astounding growth.

We currently have total funds of about $4,200. Additionally, I am donating (via Bomis) 1 new webserver. I am putting together, in consultation with our technical team, an order for new hardware totalling $20,000. For details of what we are purchasing, or if you have expertise and would like to help guide us, join the wikitech-l mailing list. [Note that when Wikipedia is down, the mailing list subscription is affected, too.]

I will post daily or twice-daily updates on this web page as well as keeping the mailing lists informed at the same time.

Your help is much appreciated.

Sincerely,

Jimbo Wales

wikipedia持续当机，需要将近20000美元的设备才能更好的运转。

希望尽早能够恢复起来，可惜我没有美元，否则我肯定捐助。现在真是想帮忙都帮不上，只能干着急。

wikipedia昨天全面当机，据说是数据库服务器硬件故障，需要几天才能修好。

郁闷！

也有好消息：wikimeidia基金会现在总计已经收到了$4000，大家正在商量如何使用这笔钱。呵呵…

你听到的是一个三岁小女孩天真浪漫的歌唱，可能你想象不到，她正在死忙边缘徘徊。—->点击查看详细报导

爸爸，广州地下乐团的沼泽乐队的BASS手ROY，为了女儿的病，花掉所有的积蓄，把女儿带来广州治疗，住进乐队的band房里。前不久乐队更在广州举行了筹款义演

妈妈，广东化州的一个高中数学教师，每天为女儿写着日记，让女儿康复后看看自己的辛路历程，看看父母对她的疼爱，看看社会对她的关爱，看看不幸的自己其实也是如此的幸运。如果妈妈也会blog，我们就能见证着这位小公主一天天康复过来，唱着：“我要上学了，天天不迟到…”
捐款方式：
（1）捐款帐户： 4776417-01880438929（中国银行广州市海联路分理处）户名：李春来
　　　　　　　　9555502001842702（招商银行广州市东山支行）户名：李春来
　　　　　　　　3602097101030617721（中国工商银行广州建基路办事处）户名：李春来
（2）汇款地址：广州市海珠区东晓横街162号302室（李春来收）（邮编：510230）

希望看到他的人能广为传播。。。

在我之前发送这条消息的人有：

1. hanghang
2. topku