[Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

[David Gerard]

On 16 September 2010 17:58, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> For privacy reasons, we can't back up all data everywhere (e.g. user
> account information) -- it might be worth thinking about longer term
> strategies for portability of that data (e.g. a group of unaffiliated
> entrusted individuals who hold encryption keys). But, for the publicly
> available dumps, I don't see a list of mirrors prominently linked from
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html -- I think starting a
> page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/Mirrors with
> mirroring instructions (if such a page doesn't already exist
> somewhere), prominently highlighting it at dumps.wikimedia.org, and
> spreading the word would be a good start. We are already generating
> MD5s, so it shouldn't be hard for engaged community members to help
> with standard/policy setting, verification of mirror status, etc.


Surely dumps would be a natural for the Internet Archive and the
Library of Congress.


- d.