[Foundation-l] thoughts on leakages

[Brianna Laugher]

On 13/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/01/2008, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
> > I'm personally quite happy with the current situation.  So far the
> > board hasn't made any major mistakes.  The servers are running and
> > everybody should be happy. If the board would go mad, we do have
> > copies of the database dumps and the right to fork.  If the board
> > would want to run away with the money, there is very little to run
> > away with, and this is a safeguard in itself.
>
>
> The en:wp and Commons image dumps are still iffy, but this has the
> devs' attention as important :-)
>
> One of the best protections we have against the Foundation being taken
> over by insane space aliens is good database dumps.

Nonetheless a serious effort at a fork of a major project would be the
biggest failure I can imagine in Wikimedia - and that includes if Knol
is a raging success.
It would be comforting to have mechanisms to trigger before the all-out blaze.

regards
Brianna

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