[Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

Fri Sep 17 17:04:03 UTC 2010

MZMcBride wrote:
> John Vandenberg wrote:
>> The key would be to allow the mirrors to delete their mirror when they
>> need to use their excess storage capability.  If they let us know in
>> advance that they are reclaiming the space, another organisation with
>> excess storage capability can take over.
> 
> Surely I don't need to be the one to point out that another huge issue with
> mirrors is that they often replicate bad information ("John Doe is a
> rapist", etc.). The mirrors you all are talking about sound like they'd
> update fairly regularly. Some of the current (unofficial) mirrors, however,
> have a horrible tendency to import once and then linger forever.
> 
> MZMcBride

If they are not live mirrors which will go down when they can't connect
to wikipedia on-the-fly to scrape their data (so they aren't really
mirroring anything).

John wrote:
> IIRC, it Greg Maxwell who had (some of?) the images that the
> Foundation lost when a bug was rolled into production.

Yes. He has a partial copy of the images.

George wrote:
> If there's interest in an offline discussion on IT disasters and
> disaster recovery and reliability engineering, I can do that, but it
> should be offline from Foundation-L...

This thread should move to wikitech-l or xmldatadumps-l