<quote name="David Gerard" date="2015-01-16" time="16:27:22
+0000">
This is not a great idea because it makes WMF wikis
unforkable in
practical terms. The data is worthless without being able to run an
instance of the software. This will functionally proprietise all WMF
wikis, whatever the licence statement.
"Unforkable" as a binary is not true. "Not easy to fork without
implementing all of the pieces carefully" is more accurate. But it's
still possible, especially since all of the config/puppet code that is
used to do it is open and Freely licensed.
It ain't easy hosting a site this large with this amount of traffic
(thanks Ops!) so it's not surprising that "forking" it wouldn't be easy
either.
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