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

[Brian]

Making people feel good is ultimately the best reason for archiving the data
- I would agree. And that is synergistic with what I think is the best
strategy for long term archiving, which is giving a complete copy to every
single person in the world. If we were to invest in a class of technologies
it would have to be those that allow for widespread dissemination. A working
dump process is the logical next step..:)

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> > Yeah, I'm still going to say the entire idea is ridiculous.
>
> I wouldn't go quite that far. The idea of doing it (or having done it)
> makes people feel good, due to the collective sci-fi-like fantasy
> implicitly promulgated by the project itself -- a future world of
> poverty and decay, saved by the serendipitous discovery of a
> time-capsule sent from the past. It's a spectacle, a stunt, and it has
> PR value.
>
> I certainly don't begrudge the Long Now Foundation for having done
> this with the Rosetta Project, since their primary goal is to
> encourage long-term thinking, and expensive stunts are obviously a key
> part of that.
>
> But Wikimedia's goals are somewhat different, and we could probably
> find some stunts which are more relevant to our mission.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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