2009/5/5 Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com:
Of course, since all of Wikimedia's data is freely available, anyone else who'd like to store it in some durable form for any sum of money is absolutely free to do so. Or they could give Wikimedia a directed grant. But it would be a waste of Wikimedia's money.
The best way is to make archives readily available so there are *lots* of copies.
So first we need good dumps for people to make lots of copies of ...
There are people like the Internet Archive as well. We should be making sure they have a copy of every database dump in their collection.
- d.