On 13/01/2008, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/01/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The en:wp and Commons image dumps are still iffy, but this has the devs' attention as important :-) One of the best protections we have against the Foundation being taken over by insane space aliens is good database dumps.
Nonetheless a serious effort at a fork of a major project would be the biggest failure I can imagine in Wikimedia - and that includes if Knol is a raging success.
[[Enciclopedia Libre]] is why advertising on Wikipedia would be an absolute last resort ...
See also http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/10/disaster-recovery-planning/ - and even if people disagree with my first sentence there, the rest still applies.
It would be comforting to have mechanisms to trigger before the all-out blaze.
The trouble with installing a big red button is that its presence says "PRESS ME."
- d.