[Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

Mon Dec 1 06:50:23 UTC 2008

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2008 04:09:11 Robert Rohde wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Neil Harris <usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> > Is the data replicated anywhere outside the Tampa data centre (such as
>> > in Amsterdam or Seoul)? If not, just one fire, flood or hurricane could
>> > destroy the entire en: Wikipedia.
>>
>> There are database mirrors of every wiki, including en, as part of the
>> toolserver cluster in Amsterdam.
>
> Unfortunately, enwiki mirror doesn't include article text :(

Ouch, I hadn't realized they gave up on text replication.  Apparently
quite a while ago too.  (That will teach me for never bothering to
learn to use the toolserver.)

So I guess we are back to the meteor impact destroys Wikipedia scenario.

-Robert Rohde