[Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

[emijrp]

2010/9/17 Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>

> MZMcBride wrote:
> > John Vandenberg wrote:
> >> The key would be to allow the mirrors to delete their mirror when they
> >> need to use their excess storage capability.  If they let us know in
> >> advance that they are reclaiming the space, another organisation with
> >> excess storage capability can take over.
> >
> > Surely I don't need to be the one to point out that another huge issue
> with
> > mirrors is that they often replicate bad information ("John Doe is a
> > rapist", etc.). The mirrors you all are talking about sound like they'd
> > update fairly regularly. Some of the current (unofficial) mirrors,
> however,
> > have a horrible tendency to import once and then linger forever.
> >
> > MZMcBride
>
> If they are not live mirrors which will go down when they can't connect
> to wikipedia on-the-fly to scrape their data (so they aren't really
> mirroring anything).
>
> John wrote:
> > IIRC, it Greg Maxwell who had (some of?) the images that the
> > Foundation lost when a bug was rolled into production.
>
> Yes. He has a partial copy of the images.
>
>
> George wrote:
> > If there's interest in an offline discussion on IT disasters and
> > disaster recovery and reliability engineering, I can do that, but it
> > should be offline from Foundation-L...
>
> This thread should move to wikitech-l or xmldatadumps-l
>
>
In that mailing lists there are enough threads about text/images/mirrors
dumps without great advances.

I think that this mailing list is perfect for this topic. It is not only a
tech topic, it is a matter of public awareness.


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