Revised the section on stabilizing infrastructure

Revised the section on stabilizing infrastructure

I've been carefully sifting through the discussions over the past month, and I'm starting to revise the priorities page based on this feedback and my own thoughts. I just did a pass on stabilizing infrastructure and would love feedback.

I made one structural change and two significant content changes. Structurally, I split measures to "Key Indicators" and "Possible Targets." I think this is a better way to organize our goals, and unless there's strong objection or a better alternative, I plan on doing this with all of the priorities.

My content changes were:

  • I reworked the paragraph on financial stability to make it clear that revenues need to grow. This was very clear from the research of the Financial Sustainability Task Force and their subsequent recommendations.
  • I modified the measures significantly to account for these changes.

Let me know your thoughts.

Eekim23:18, 14 June 2010

«Wikimedia's revenue should increase significantly»: I don't understand why this is under "Stabilize Infrastructure" goal; it doesn't make any sense, because this is an underlying goal for the WMF to be able to do what it is supposed to do. Or rather, it suggests that this is the only area when the WMF is going to actually allocate resources, while e.g. I think that WMF should invest on innovation (usability, new features etc.).

Nemo19:03, 15 August 2010
Nemo03:09, 16 August 2010
I have seen relatively noticeable changes on both Wikipeida and Wikia. Mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool 00:11, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Mcjakeqcool00:11, 20 January 2011

it makes long time i was looking for and first time i find something talking about the infrastructure of wikimedia / wikipedia. maybe it is not the exact place to tell my words, and if not please give the best place because i did not find it out.


Wikimedia projects are built to be open and shared by users.

But the infrastructure still is very centralised as it is runned as the standard model of online applications : organization owned and runned serveurs and CDN.

for sure the application as to be runned on a secured serveur, for edition and logged contributors.

Concerning static caching and CDN

maybe in a future, some peer to peer option could be integrated so that wikimedia contributors can allows a part of their own machine to hold for this static data.

Even if it is only for archive save.


This would allow us to feel more implicated in the support of the project and this might be also a support of the project for little cost.

Is there any plan for such peer to peer CDN development for the future ?

Lebrunxavier22:09, 19 August 2011

Well this is my User page you could have asked at say Talk:Main Page/en or even strategic Planning:Site issues but though I notice that the editing system has changed in certain parts of our Wikipedia world giving options of newer generation formatted or orignal source text but I do notice that in this area of Wikipeida these parts are called Strategy.wikimedia I cannot find any contributions from you Lebrunxavier neither is your User credited to creating your own User talk so perhaps that is something that could be edited by another peer to another peer, for peer to peer to develop though you have to use word of mouth to other wikipeidans like editing other User's talk pages like you did myne to leave a message and just carry on editing to expand the Wikipeidan planet from each peer to the next peer, the more peers share contributions with other Users the more wiki:love is shown between the Wikipedian community and the more southern fried chicken is sold. Mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool 01:39, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Mcjakeqcool01:39, 20 September 2011