Erik Moeller wrote:
When there's scheduled downtime, it is usually announced on the mailing list. Let us know if you find someone willing to run a complete read-only mirror, that would help.
I volunteer. What do we need to do?
Heh :-) If it's in your network, you probably just need to copy the source files and the tables from /var/lib/mysql (or wherever your MySQL databases reside) in a nightly cronjob to some other machine that's set up the same way as our current one. Since I don't have access to the Wikipedia server, you need to ask Brion for details regarding the cvs update scripts and so on, but it should all be fairly straightforward. The only difference would be that the database is locked on the read-only serevr.
Everyone else can run a mirror by simply importing the database dumps on a regular basis, though.
Regards,
Erik