[Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 21:19:36 UTC 2010


On 16 September 2010 22:16, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2010/9/16 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

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

> As Tomasz noted in [1], we're already talking to the LOC about keeping
> mirrors. But lots of copies keep stuff safe, and it's something that
> the community can easily help with, by creating clear instructions for
> mirroring and reaching out to the kinds of organizations that would
> happily pull regular copies.
> [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-September/049433.html


Absolutely, I meant as well!


- d.



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