[Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

Mon Dec 1 11:18:03 UTC 2008

Robert Rohde wrote:
> 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
>   
That's scary: are there any off-site backups of the full database, 
including the article text, made anywhere, other than the constantly 
failing dumps? Given that Wikipedia is the Wikimedia Foundation's 
principal asset, I would hope that fixing this single point of failure 
would be a priority for the Foundation.

-- Neil