On 28 October 2011 13:48, Peter Gervai grinapo@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:05, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
as I did. We both spend a lot of time making sure Wikipedia is always up and available for people to read, so it's painful to see a small proportion of a wiki's users decide to take a whole wiki offline for everyone.
But let's not forget that no matter how stable a cluster is the site could be brought down by a single paper from the law enforcement, politicians and alike. Life is not always as simple as "make backups and you'll be safe for ever".
Which is why, even though forks aren't good, forkability is essential backup hygiene.
Has anyone tried to duplicate a running Wikipedia lately?
(I'd try myself if I had a PC to had with sufficient disk space ...)
- d.