Brion Vibber wrote:
Magnus, we've had this for a few months actually.
See extensions/OAI for
the client/server database updater system, which we're currently using
somewhat experimentally for a couple clients. Wikimedia plans to offer
this as a value-add service to commercial mirrors generally (and I hope
for non-profit mirrors, though you'd have to talk to Jimbo to know
what's up).
Yes, we would love to do that. If someone is profiting, we should
charge them. If it is non-profit, then we should only charge them if
the load is so substantial that we feel they ought to raise their own
funds to do it. Better to be helpful when we can, and only charge
people money for stuff when it's painful to us to support them.
--Jimbo