(subject was: Cyn Skyberg joins Wikimedia as CTCO!) On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com> wrote: This was my first thought as well. But as Liam said after that... If this scenario ever did happen, I expect that the first step would be to ensure it never happened again. We, the people, should start planning for this worse case scenario now. A mirror system would be great; that is how project gutenberg, linux and sf.net do disaster recovery. It is simple, cheap and effective. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors http://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portugeuse, Swedish and Chinese Wikipedia all appear to have some mirrors, but are any of them reliable enough to be used for disaster recovery? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MIRROR http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Weiternutzung http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Sites_miroirs http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cloni It would be nice to have an agreement with these mirrors that they will make the most recent dump available if WMF is unable to provide it. I don't see any mirrors listed on the Spanish page about mirrors. Are there mirrors of other Wikimedia projects? The smaller projects are easier to backup, as they are smaller. I am sure that with a little effort and coordination, chapters, universities and similar organisations would be willing to routinely backup a subset of projects, and combined we would have multiple current backups of all projects. -- John Vandenberg Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;) - Torvalds, Linus (1996-07-20).