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Wikia’s Got A Truck Full of Servers — 1,000 To Be Exact!
Allen Stern - December 16th, 2007
Over the past week, one of the messages on the Wikia search mailing list I am on asked for an update on the Wikia search project. To which Jimmy Wales replied with, "On track, we are hard at work right now…" and displayed the image below. The Unofficial Search Wikia blog was able to pin down Wales’ on IRC and got the following comment:
Many people have speculated that this is for a crawl and/or Hadoop cluster and this was confirmed by Jimmy Wales on IRC when I asked if the servers were for a web crawl he replied “they are for the wikia search web crawl, yes”.
Here is the image that Jimmy pointed the list to:
I wish santa brought me 1000 servers!
i wish santa brought me a Wii an an iPhone
OMG!! Nerdgasm
Hurrah for Wikia! That’s a lot of servers! *whistles* I guess this is just proof that they’re amping things up. Honestly, I’m more familiar with the original Wikipedia site but hopefully, this truck full of servers can help them move forward. I understand that they suffered from an unhealthy dose of inactivity or something like that a few years back.
Looks like those servers are just stacked in the back of the truck without any protective packaging! Hope the ride over wasn’t too rough!