[Foundation-l] Image dumps, html dumps, and static copies missing

Wed Apr 30 03:51:31 UTC 2008

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>  Phoebe Ayers writes:
>
>  > Arguably, however, providing solid dumps is the backbone for getting
>  > most of this research getting done, since having project data to
>  > manipulate is necessary for many possible studies. So not only are
>  > regular dumps critical for fulfilling our free content
>  > responsibilities and mission, but they are critical for future
>  > research. Which is to say: we all really want to see them happen! And
>  > agreed, the Foundation is the only one that can make it so (even
>  > though it's not an easy task); and this is the sort of infrastructure
>  > task that should be absolutely core.
>
>  We at the Foundation want to see this happen too. We regard increasing
>  the frequency and reliability of the dumps as mission-critical, and
>  we're working toward that goal.

Lovely! Glad to hear it. :)

The small but enthusiastic wiki research community will certainly be
glad too. In anticipation, we are already planning many parties this
year to celebrate! *

-- phoebe

* The first in Alexandria, the second in Porto (www.wikisym.org), not
to mention Wikimedia Conference Netherlands, Konferencja Wikimedia
Polska, etc. etc. ...