Before I go find the foundation mailing list and ask them, has there been
any discussion of a wikipedia owned mirror to lessen the load on the main
servers and keep the content accessible in case of an outage? I'm imagining
that this could be accomplished by the the mirror independantly refreshing
from the recent changes page RSS feed - although I guess it would be more
efficient for it to pull the updates directly from the database. Anyway,
the beauty of an official mirror is that searches could be randomly directed
to it (or one of several official mirrors) and the "edit" links from the
mirror(s) point back to the "live" site. This is such an obvious idea that
I'd guess it's already been proposed and discussed, but I did a little
searching and didn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask.
Aerik