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

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun May 10 21:06:04 UTC 2009


2009/5/10 Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net>:

> I don't want to restart this rather long (but very interesting)
> topic, but I'd like to point out / remind people that a couple of
> well-placed fires could wipe out most of wikipedia et al. as we
> currently know it - surely the first priority, before thinking about
> the real long term, is to sort that out? Remember the Library of
> Alexandria...


The new dumps are progressing very well. Presumably when they're done
we can give the Internet Archive and any similar archivists a yell.


- d.



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