are amazing. Seriously. I’ve been with them two weeks yesterday and I’m astonished.
Maybe because I’ve got used to 1&1 taking up to a week to respond to a simple query that was in their FAQ (the quickest response I’ve had is two days), but HostGator are incredible. I’ve had answers within minutes, and a few hours at most. Well done guys!
Old news now yes, but I was in France yesterday and have been busy with Xinki the rest of the week so I thought I’d blog about it.
I visited the site as I was curious. What did I get? An error page. Then I accessed the site proper, and saw warnings about re-trying if I got errors, and lots of red links on the main page. Not good…
I checked out the new user log to see who was on this thing. Account creation is disabled; you have to request an account be created for you, with your username being your real name.
I then visited Special:Version. It said “MediaWiki 1.10 (modified)”, whatever modified means on an as-yet unreleased version of MediaWiki, and that they were using PostgreSQL as their database.
Will Citizendium be around in a years’ time? It’s hard to gauge. Back in 2001, nobody knew if Wikipedia was going to be successful. Here we are six years and over 1.7 million articles later. So who knows? Comments please!
The move to HostGator is complete. Kunden was taken offline on Tuesday, and Xinki is running exclusively on Gerard. Waggishmab.org.uk too is online, with WaggishBLOG installed.
If Wikipedia gets $100 million, here’s what they should spend it on by ZDNet’s Russell Shaw — A week ago Sunday, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales put out this enticing sounding open letter asking Wikipedia users for recommendations about how the collaborative, free online encyclopedia might spend an um, maybe-not-so-hypothetical $100 million war chest to acquire the rights to digital works. OK, Jimbo. First you should, in conjunction with experts, draw up a list […]
I’ve now seen Firefox 2.0. I like it. It’s basically all a Web browser needs to be, and is open-source too. I’m not looking to be making toast with a Web browser - I just want to browse the Web. Of course, not just browse it - create it too, but you know what I mean.
Finally, Microsoft has apparently set release dates for Windows Vista (and Office and Exchange 2007). Five years, three months and five days after XP was launched. I suppose this is good news…though it does mean I didn’t win the guess-the-launch-date contest. Actually I’ve forgotten which date I guessed…so who knows?
This has been an interesting week. Firefox 2.0 was released on Wednesday with new features, themes and…stuff. (I haven’t tried it so I don’t know - but it’s bound to be good, isn’t it?) Nearly two years since the original Firefox was released, out of Phoenix and previously Firebird - built on the Mozilla Suite. Notice how they haven’t made a huge fuss about it like Microsoft have with IE7.
Installing MediaWiki on my new 1&1 hosting package was disappointing - they don’t have PHP 5. Angela Beesley recommended HostGator.com, so once I cancel my contract I’ll be going with them. Yes, you can have subdomains if you want! 
Finally, I copyedited Wikizine this week. It’s a short, to-the-point plain text newsletter about Wikimedia.
Various news this first week. First, Google is going to buy YouTube. What this means for Google and YouTube is yet to be seen, but it is known the site will keep its own branding and 67 members of staff at the headquearters they recently moved into. So, like Writely is at the moment - no great “Google Write” re-branding or anything. - Update: Late last night Google merged Writely with Google Spreadsheets and relaunched as Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Maybe people will be able to log in to YouTube with their Google Account, in time, pre-empting some sort of merge with Google Video. On a side note, I first blogged about Google Video back in March 2005!
The other thing is my Request for Adminship on the English Wikipedia, which ends this Friday.