On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Garrett andrew@werdn.us wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Currently all data, including private data, is replicated to the toolserver. We could not do this with a third-party server.
My understanding is that the the toolserver(/s) are owned by the german chapter and not by wikimedia directly so why is private data being replicated onto them?
Because it was chosen as the best technical solution. Is there a specific problem with private data being on the toolserver? If so, what?
I'd say the added worries about security and access approval are a "problem" partially bundled up with that, even if they can be worked around.
Logistically it would be nice to have a means of providing an exclusively public data replica for purposes such as research, though I can certainly see how that could get technically messy.
-Robert Rohde