The German wikipedia was approached by freenet.de, who have been very
kind hosting the German wikipedia CD image for us, about setting up a
wikipedia.de mirror within their pages.
Nothing unusual there, but I had a thought: Wouldn't it be easier in the
long run for us and other parties to
* set up an additional MySQL replication slave at our site
* probably without the passwords, or scramble them
* have others (like freenet.de) replicate from that slave
All they'd have to do would be to set up a read-only MediaWiki, probably
edit the skin to match their preferences, set the database to their
replication server, and be done. They'd practically get a real-time
mirror (maybe lacking a few minutes, but so what) without any maintenance.
Also, that would create an effective off-site backup of our db, very
up-to-date, excluding the user passwords, which should be
reconstructable from a "normal" dump for most users.
Alternatively, we could improve encryption of the passwords, and just
have them replicate everything. Or, we just replicate the cur table (if
that's possible) and write a "kiosk" mode into MediaWiki which ignores
everything involving users, old versions, etc.
What do you think?
Magnus