At this time we have closed submissions. We have received well over 100 requests, and will not have enough servers to cover those, let alone more. Thanks for the submissions! ~ RobH @ 2011-06-18 @ 10:00 EST
Due to the overwhelming response, we will unfortunately not be able to reply to everyone on an individual basis. If your organization is selected, you will receive an email from us indicating the approval, as well as shipping information. ~ RobH @ 2011-06-30 @ 13.30 EST
The Wikimedia Foundation has been upgrading and adding new servers to keep up with traffic demand and capacity growth as we always do. Recently, we replaced some of our older servers with faster, higher capacity and more energy efficient servers. These older servers are now decommissioned and will be donated away. Do note that they are over 3+ years old and are out of warranty. While we may have placed a lot of demand on them over the years, they are in fine working condition.
Most systems (but possibly not all) have the following specifications:
- Dual CPU 2.5 GHz
- From 3GB to 24GB of RAM, depending on role.
- Most have 80 GB or larger HDD (some have two hard drives, some drives are 160GB or possibly even 250GB)
If you are interested, please provide the following information in your email to us:
- Registered non-profit name and information.
- Your contact information, including email address, phone number, and relationship with requesting non-profit.
- Information on the non-profit, their charter, mission and goals.
- Shipping address information for a FedEx Ground delivery (i.e., the shipment destination)*
- How the servers will be used. (We like to know and share with folks!)
* At this time we regret that we are only able to ship servers to USA based non-profits. This is due to the cost of shipping and the various exportation laws and taxes that result from shipping internationally.
Please provide as much detail as possible on how you plan to use the servers. For example, ‘Wikimedia will use these for our sites.’ is pretty vague where as ‘Wikimedia is the non-profit foundation that runs Wikipedia. Server donations to us would be used to run our websites that allow access to Wikipedia and its sister projects.’ is much clearer.
If you are not a registered non-profit, your use of the server(s) must be utilized in a fashion that works with or on the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. We are not donating these servers to private individuals for personal use. All requests that are not for use on Wikimedia projects or are not going to a non-profit will be ignored.
By submitting and possibly accepting servers from us, you are granting the Wikimedia Foundation permission to publish details of the donation. This is normally (but not limited to) a quick blurb about it on our Tech Blog (http://diff.wikimedia.org).
The Wikimedia Foundation provides no guarantee of the hardware donated in any manner. Any use of the hardware is not the responsibility of the Wikimedia Foundation.
All requests will be reviewed by our technical team, and they will reply back regarding server availability. Please keep in mind that these are handled on a low priority schedule, with our normal operations taking precedence. There may be delays in shipping out your request, or we simply run out of servers.
At this time we have closed submissions. We have received well over 100 requests, and will not have enough servers to cover those, let alone more. Thanks for the submissions! ~ RobH @ 2011-06-18 @ 10:00 EST
Rob Halsell
Wikimedia Operations Engineer
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