Wikimedia Foundation Selects WatchMouse Monitoring Services
'Live Health' of Wikipedia and Additional Websites Now Posted and Updated in Real Time
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WatchMouse, a globally recognized self-service website and application performance monitoring company, today announced the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation will utilize the WatchMouse Public Status Pages to display the uptime and availability of their array of user-built projects. The Foundation operates Wikipedia and its sister projects, which are accessed by more than 395 million unique visitors (comScore December, 2010) from around the world in over 250 languages. The Wikipedia Public Status Page can be found at http://status.wikimedia.org.
"The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to be one of the most transparent non-profit organizations in the world," said Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The Foundation is deeply concerned with growing our global user and editor base, which makes it critical for us to monitor and maintain the live status of all of our websites – and providing a public portal for our tens of thousands of volunteers to track uptime as well. WatchMouse understands and supports our global mission to spread free knowledge around the world, and with their help we are able to push our mission even further."
The WatchMouse Public Status Page technology monitors performance and gathers availability data across a network of over 50 stations in more than 30 countries. The Public Status Pages are free to subscribers and trialists, and inform website visitors of the status of a specified selection of a company's online services. This results in reduced customer service contacts and fosters goodwill with users by publishing the live health of a website. The actual Public Status Pages are hosted in the cloud using Amazon's S3 and EC2 products ensuring they are up even when a company's website may not be. Additional WatchMouse customers utilizing Public Status Pages include Twitter, WordPress and Zappos.
"Non-profit organizations are transparent by nature and have a willingness to provide information about their business activities," stated Mark Pors, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of WatchMouse. "We're pleased to partner with the Wikimedia Foundation, and to support all non-profit organizations by offering them a deep discount on our monitoring services."
For more information about Public Status Pages and discounted monitoring services for non-profit organizations, please visit www.watchmouse.com/non_profit_offering.php.
About Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 395 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide (Dec 2010). Available in more than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 17 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
About WatchMouse
WatchMouse is a globally recognized leader in self-service website and application performance monitoring. WatchMouse products test the behavior and availability of websites, services and applications utilizing an infrastructure that includes over 50 worldwide monitoring stations in over 30 countries. WatchMouse provides many of the world's leading companies including Twitter, WordPress, Wikimedia Foundation, Philips, ING and VeriSign with independent confirmation of both in-house and supplier performance. Subscribers and trialists also have the ability to publish the live health of their websites utilizing WatchMouse Public Status Page technology. Founded in 2002, WatchMouse is a privately held company headquartered in The Netherlands with additional offices in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Follow @watchmouse on Twitter or learn more at http://www.watchmouse.com.
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