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Aryeh Gregor:
If I understand correctly, the only change being contemplated here is not replicating the databases that are entirely secret (databases of private wikis).
this is correct.
I might be misunderstanding, though. If only entire databases need to be hidden, why can't the toolserver just be set up not to replicate those, given that MySQL supports that?
because it would require a proxy server under WMF control that filtered out the evil tables and provided a "clean" replicated feed to the toolserver, which is a lot more effort (and more fragile) than just moving the bad data.
- river.