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Wikipedia gets ready to be flooded
Wikimedia CTO Brion Vibber
What is the significance of Sun Microsystems‘ announcement Wednesday that Wikimedia is buying truckloads of Sun servers? It’s that the Wikimedia team, which runs Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks, and other sites, is gearing up to change the nature of the reference services. Wikipedia, in particular, is going to get a lot more visual. Limits on the size of upload files will be increased to 100MB. Video–hosted by Wikimedia–will soon be part of the mix.
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