On 20/04/07, Angela Beesley <angela(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm forwarding this on behalf of Ethan Zuckerman,
a member of the
Wikimedia Advisory Board.
One option would be to pursue a "Lots of Copies
Keep Stuff Safe"
strategy, much as people are suggesting with the copies of the content
itself. (I think that having an agreement with
Archive.org, and with
other digital archives, to periodically store snapshots of the various
wikis would be a very smart thing to do.) If the country foundations
archive.org are quite enthusiastic about collecting stuff and regard
hundreds of gigabytes as a few days' load - I suspect just asking them
to archive database dumps would get a "goodness yes" from them.
- d.