[Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

Peter Gervai grinapo at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 12:48:49 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:05, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> as I did. We both spend a lot of time making sure Wikipedia is always
> up and available for people to read, so it's painful to see a small
> proportion of a wiki's users decide to take a whole wiki offline for
> everyone.

But let's not forget that no matter how stable a cluster is the site
could be brought down by a single paper from the law enforcement,
politicians and alike. Life is not always as simple as "make backups
and you'll be safe for ever".

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