Wikimedia donates its servers to worthy non-profit organizations.

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Every year the use of Wikipedia is growing, and every year a technical group that works and volunteers for Wikimedia should plan, buy and put into operation new servers to maintain the growing popularity of Wikipedia and its fraternal projects. With achievements in the field of computing, 9 new application servers launched this year took on a load of 36 application servers 3 years ago.

So when we upgrade, what happens to old equipment that is too slow for Wikipedia, but not too slow for MANY other non-profit organizations? We give it! These systems were 1U rack servers, dual 2.5-3 CPUs, single core, 2-4 GB RAM and 2-4 HDD Bays with 1-2 80-250 GB hard drives. This year, three non-profit organizations received our old systems (in alphabetical order): Drupal.org , OpenStreetMap Foundation, and Sugar Labs .
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Drupal.org

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations use Drupal for productive results on different websites.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an international non-profit organization that supports, but does not control, the project. It aims to encourage the growth, development and dissemination of free geospatial data and the provision of geospatial data to anyone for use and distribution.

OpenStreetMap is an open source project for creating and providing free geographic data, such as street maps for everyone who needs it.

Sugar labs

The mission of Sugar Labs is to produce, distribute and support the use of the Sugar learning platform ; it is a providing base and collection point for the community of educators and developers to create, extend, learn and learn through the Sugar learning platform.

We hope that the recipients of our servers will be able to find good use for them!

The following are some of the most frequently asked issues related to Wikimedia and the server donation process:

• How can I get some of the decommissioned donation servers?
• Who has the right to request servers?
• How often does this happen?
• I am a student / person / and so and I want to learn to develop and do so and so. Can you send me a server?

^{And the answers can be found in the Wikimedia Technical Blog . There are also explanations that only non-profit organizations with the same goals as the Wikimedia Foundation can ask for servers.}

Rob Halsel
System Administrator