[Wikimedia-l] Fire Drill Re: Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

[Anthony]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:13 AM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
> that two week estimate was given worst case scenario. Given the best case
> we are talking as little as a few hours for the smaller wikis to 5 days or
> so for a project the size of enwiki. (see
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2012-May/000491.htmlfor
> progress on image dumps`)

Where are you getting these figures from?

Are you talking about a full history copy?

Also, what about the copyright issues (especially, attribution)?