On 28 October 2011 13:48, Peter Gervai <grin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:05, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> as I did. We both spend a lot of time making sure Wikipedia is always >> up and available for people to read, so it's painful to see a small >> proportion of a wiki's users decide to take a whole wiki offline for >> everyone. > But let's not forget that no matter how stable a cluster is the site > could be brought down by a single paper from the law enforcement, > politicians and alike. Life is not always as simple as "make backups > and you'll be safe for ever". Which is why, even though forks aren't good, forkability is essential backup hygiene. Has anyone tried to duplicate a running Wikipedia lately? (I'd try myself if I had a PC to had with sufficient disk space ...) - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
