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

[Anthony]

Please have someone at WMF coordinate this so that there aren't
multiple requests made.  In my opinion, it should preferably be made
by a WMF employee.

Fill out the form at
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/aws-dataset-inquiry

Tell them you want to create a public data set which is a snapshot of
the English Wikipedia.  We can coordinate any questions, and any
implementation details, on a separate list.

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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.