Bryan Derksen wrote:
But then there'd have to be a new separate
database dump that _did_
include the user/talk pages. The purpose of the database dumps is not
just to allow someone to toss up a mirror of the current article
versions and make a few bucks from banner ads, it's to allow Wikipedia
as a whole to be researched or recreated or otherwise manipulated in
ways that can't be done just from the existing website. The user and
talk pages are important parts of how Wikipedia functions, they should
be available for historical reasons if nothing else.
I think this is a reasonable solution. What would be glorious would be
to have a standard package to allow people to throw up mirrors easily
and *properly*, including what we want them to include, and not
including what we don't want them to include.
--Jimbo