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Story idea for Blog: How and why we opened a new datacenter in Marseille, France
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Please provide the following information.

  • Provide a short summary of your proposed post for the Wikimedia Technical Blog. Blog readers will see this as the preview to your post:

Would the first paragraph of the blog-post fits?

Big picture

  • Which audience or audiences do you think your post is appropriate for?:

The target audience I had in mind when writing it is non technical people.

  • Will you need assistance with writing your blog post, or do you already have a draft? If you have a draft, please provide a link here:

The draft is available there:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fXbkcPaP0znnGxfiVPLiHS9AkWP-HOUTeik-o8Iicrw/edit#

I already have a draft reviewed, but there are still a couple outstanding points you could maybe provide feedback on (or anything else you see fit).

  • Does your post need to be published by a certain date?

Ideally before the end of the month, as the further away we are from the datacenter launch data, the less relevant it becomes.

No image in mind so far.

  • Do you have any other questions or comments?

No, thanks

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Event Timeline

Hi @ayounsi! I've taken a look at the draft and left comments and suggestions on it. Let me know how you get on with those - I'd be happy to get this post published next week, if we can make the final edits work.

Screenshot from 2022-07-05 20-53-26.png (899×1 px, 916 KB)

Alt: World map with schematized CDN request flows
The background comes from OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Diagram from myself, any license works for me


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The cable map default to French and I don't think I can change it, could someone from an English speaking country take a similar screenshot?
Direct link: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/landing-point/marseille-france
Alt: World map representing all the oceanic cables, highlighting the ones in relation to Marseille
License: https://github.com/telegeography/www.submarinecablemap.com#license


PXL_20211026_145245669.jpg (2×2 px, 1 MB)

Alt: 2 datacenter racks containing network equipment and servers
My work, dunno what the license should be


https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Network_design#/media/File:Wikimedia_network_overview.png
Alt: diagram of Wikimedia's global network
My work, dunno what the license should be