[Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

Chad innocentkiller at gmail.com
Thu May 7 00:54:54 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Suppose that it does happen *today*.
>> All electronic systems collapse but the ones at your home.
>> Also, you cannot produce new ones.
>> You have a copy of wikipedia on your hard disk. You can access it.
>> But your computer lifetime is finite. And you also don't know for how
>> much time you'll still have electric current.
>> What do you do?
>
>
> Sell my computer for food, water, guns, and ammunition?
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I was going to say +5 insightful, but really, it's common sense.
The world is going to hell, and your priority is saving Wikipedia?
My priority is saving my ass. :)

-Chad



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