The German wikipedia was approached by freenet.de, who have been very kind hosting the German wikipedia CD image for us, about setting up a wikipedia.de mirror within their pages. Nothing unusual there, but I had a thought: Wouldn't it be easier in the long run for us and other parties to * set up an additional MySQL replication slave at our site * probably without the passwords, or scramble them * have others (like freenet.de) replicate from that slave All they'd have to do would be to set up a read-only MediaWiki, probably edit the skin to match their preferences, set the database to their replication server, and be done. They'd practically get a real-time mirror (maybe lacking a few minutes, but so what) without any maintenance. Also, that would create an effective off-site backup of our db, very up-to-date, excluding the user passwords, which should be reconstructable from a "normal" dump for most users. Alternatively, we could improve encryption of the passwords, and just have them replicate everything. Or, we just replicate the cur table (if that's possible) and write a "kiosk" mode into MediaWiki which ignores everything involving users, old versions, etc. What do you think? Magnus