(Nick Reinking <nick(a)twoevils.org>)g>):
Fair enough, was just wondering. :) Still, I think it would still be a
good idea for us to use them as a read-only mirror for when the database
is down (for server maintence, database maintenence, etc.)
I agree that read-only mirrors are probably a good idea in our
future plans. It would require some software: namely, something
that ran maybe once or twice a day and generated a set of static
HTML pages from the "cur" table. This could be done incrementally
based on timestamps, so it wouldn't be such a burden). Things
like edit links would point to the live Wikipedia or to an
intermediate page that explained what was going on and that then
pointed to the live site. We could then have other sites rsync
those static pages. Ideally, the search links would point to
a search function on the other site as well, built by indexing
the static pages rather than going to the live database.
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