On 13 September 2010 21:14, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
I think that Jamie has started an important topic. I don't think that WMF is going to usurp Wikipedia and the sister projects now or in the future, but it is statistically possible. If we want to protect us, the human knowledge and our work of this hypothetical scenario, we need complete full dumps frequently. But this scenario is a malicious one, and I think that there are many more dangerous posibilities, and unfortunately, they are common. For example, small or massive lost of data due to natural disasters, crackers attacks, stolen passwords, hardware and software bugs, sudden crazy sysops, and _human errors_. Is WMF ready for that?
Shit happening is by far more likely than malice. Denise considers job #1 the elimination of existing single points of failure, so that's something. And she knows her stuff. And has the proper sysadminly horror at the notion of systems susceptible to such.
- d.