Brad Patrick wrote:
Do you have a handle on how large the deleted content will be? Seems we could end up hosting a *lot* of deletions = lot of space.
Deleted text has always been much, much smaller than the non-deleted text, and the old image directories have always been much smaller than the current image directories. Storage space for commons is growing at a phenomenal rate, and deletable images are only a small part of that. We need to make sure we have an architecture which allows us to expand our capacity to multiple terabytes of files, while keeping costs down and maintaining some redundancy. Commons is going to get that big regardless of deletion policy.
We haven't reached consensus on exactly what software design we're going to use, but I believe we're largely in agreement that more amane-type machines would be useful. I've asked for another one or two depending on budget; I'm not sure what the status of that proposed order is.
-- Tim Starling