[Wikipedia-l] What if?

Mon Oct 6 20:52:08 UTC 2003

Stevertigo wrote:

>--- Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>The databases are backed up weekly. I keep a copy of
>>it all at home, and
>>so should you.
>>    
>>
>
>Considering that en:wiki is up to {{CHANGESPERHOUR}},
>it may be that a week's loss is too much to bear, and
>would piss a lot of hard working contributors off
>
My advice, in particular to modem users who can't download the database:

if you are particularly proud of some articles you have worked on, save 
a copy of the wikitext as a text document on your hard drive :)