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

[Anthony]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:27 AM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
<alexandrdmitriromanov at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to point out that the increasingly technical nature of this
> conversation probably belongs either on wikitech-l, or off-list, and that
> the strident nature of the comments is fast approaching inappropriate.

Really?  I think we're really getting somewhere.

In fact, I think someone at WMF should contact Amazon and see if
they'll let us conduct the experiment for free, in exchange for us
creating the dump for them to host as a public data set
(http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/).

In case you got lost in the technical details, the original post was
asking "Has anyone recently set up a full-external-duplicate of (for
instance) en.wp?" and suggesting that we should do this on a yearly
basis as a fire drill.

My latest post was a concrete proposal for doing exactly that.