River Tarnell wrote:
i think the only non-money issue is that the Wikimedia Foundation won't allow us to add any more admins until they do some internal reorganisation of their databases, which we've been waiting for for several months now.
Is mediawiki table structure going to change? RevisionDelete system is not friendly for partial replication, but precisely doing things that way is what [will] allows avoiding the row-copying from revision to archive of the 'old' deletion system.
Moreover, any more private method for sharing the tables (eg. a trigger deleting the row when rev_deleted is set) would precisely lose the backup ability the toolserver is performing.