2011/8/16 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > On 16 August 2011 09:06, Domas Mituzas <midom.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Anyway, we should definitely build something like that, just don't pay > attention to suicide rate. > > > :-) I am quite cognisant that the likely number of people wanting to > build a full fork of Wikipedia may well be *zero*. I apologise if I > have given any of this the sound of urgency. I am saying, however, > that forkability is an important right thing, a guard against > disasters and a good way to keep ourselves honest. And a lot (if not > all) of what it requires is stuff we really should be doing anyway. > > (BTW - we *do* have someone making sure the Internet Archive - or a > similar organisation,
I heard Internet Archive downloads dumps every 3 months (but no images). Also, some time ago I heard about a contact with Library of Congress to host dumps duplicates. No more news about that. > if there are any similar organisations - has a > full collection of all our backups, so if Florida was hit by a meteor > tomorrow people would have something to start from?) > > Instead of a meteor, maybe a hurricane. Instead of a hurricane, maybe a faulty RAID. Did you hear about the RAID problem some months ago? Regards, emijrp > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
