Robert Rohde wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
On Monday 01 December 2008 04:09:11 Robert Rohde wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk
wrote:
Is the data replicated anywhere outside the Tampa data centre (such as in Amsterdam or Seoul)? If not, just one fire, flood or hurricane could destroy the entire en: Wikipedia.
There are database mirrors of every wiki, including en, as part of the toolserver cluster in Amsterdam.
Unfortunately, enwiki mirror doesn't include article text :(
Ouch, I hadn't realized they gave up on text replication. Apparently quite a while ago too. (That will teach me for never bothering to learn to use the toolserver.)
So I guess we are back to the meteor impact destroys Wikipedia scenario.
-Robert Rohde
That's scary: are there any off-site backups of the full database, including the article text, made anywhere, other than the constantly failing dumps? Given that Wikipedia is the Wikimedia Foundation's principal asset, I would hope that fixing this single point of failure would be a priority for the Foundation.
-- Neil