[Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

[Thomas Dalton]

On 2 June 2011 14:21, Fae <faenwp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Briefly responding to a couple of points raised so far:
>
> Yes, there is a need for a policy as otherwise the WMF would have no
> long term operational archive plan.

Why would we have an archive plan? Archives are for things that aren't
expected to needed on a regular basis any more but may need to be
referred to in the future. We're not going to archive things on
Commons, they'll just stay on Commons indefinitely.