Brion Vibber wrote:
Magnus, we've had this for a few months actually. See extensions/OAI for the client/server database updater system, which we're currently using somewhat experimentally for a couple clients. Wikimedia plans to offer this as a value-add service to commercial mirrors generally (and I hope for non-profit mirrors, though you'd have to talk to Jimbo to know what's up).
Yes, we would love to do that. If someone is profiting, we should charge them. If it is non-profit, then we should only charge them if the load is so substantial that we feel they ought to raise their own funds to do it. Better to be helpful when we can, and only charge people money for stuff when it's painful to us to support them.
--Jimbo