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Not sure if you meant Network File System (protocol), as opposed to the generic term. The link Network File System is a disambiguation page. The protocol is more likely if the apache servers were running Linux for example. W Nowicki (talk) 19:27, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Forks

I must note that I didn't intend it as an urgent call to action - rather, as something we need to keep in mind, and which will only benefit us. I am quite cognisant that the likely number of forks of English Wikipedia is zero ... but every one of the steps needed to make our projects forkable is actually (a) a good idea technically (b) important to preserving our work.

(I'd also like to make us forkable so that we can tell our more special critics "here, fork it, if you're right you'll do so much better than us." At the least, watching them come up with new excuses not to will be amusing.) - David Gerard (talk) 20:41, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Upload speed

I upload lots of own-photograph images to Commons, and I've noticed the upload speed dropping — most of my uploading is done on a major university campus with huge bandwidth, but I've still noticed over the summer that the upload speed is markedly slower than it was over Christmas break. I'd vaguely wondered if snow on the ground made image sizes smaller and if blue sky made them larger, but I'd not really considered server problems. Nyttend (talk) 23:29, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese Wikipedia Numbers

With reference to the fact that the "page view" numbers on the chinese wikipedia have trebled over the last few months I didn't quite understand what has happened? Did the bug mean that the site was getting much fewer hits from search engines and bots (i.e the huge increase is not real people but the number of automated programs visiting the wiki) or did the bug mean that the site is now getting far more human viewers through search engines which were previously not displaying these pages as results in response to queries. If it is the latter as it seems (that whoever found this bug has essentially made the chinese wikipedia 3 times more popular!) then that seems like a huge deal, and whoever found that bug should probably get an award or something (or at least a big round of applause!) 86.66.128.117 (talk) 20:01, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It does seem (from the linked explanation) that it's the latter. I agree that would be a big deal, worthy of more than a bullet point in the "In brief" section. --Avenue (talk) 22:49, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]