[Foundation-l] Image dumps, html dumps, and static copies missing

Mike Godwin mgodwin at wikimedia.org
Wed Apr 30 03:27:24 UTC 2008


Phoebe Ayers writes:

> Arguably, however, providing solid dumps is the backbone for getting
> most of this research getting done, since having project data to
> manipulate is necessary for many possible studies. So not only are
> regular dumps critical for fulfilling our free content
> responsibilities and mission, but they are critical for future
> research. Which is to say: we all really want to see them happen! And
> agreed, the Foundation is the only one that can make it so (even
> though it's not an easy task); and this is the sort of infrastructure
> task that should be absolutely core.

We at the Foundation want to see this happen too. We regard increasing  
the frequency and reliability of the dumps as mission-critical, and  
we're working toward that goal.


--Mike






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