On 22 January 2012 23:50, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]> wrote:
> So we will put a few fallback datacenters elsewhere, just so our > various communities and chapters realize we aren't going to be > bullied by US jurisdiction. AIUI setting up the new Virginia datacentre took considerable effort and planning, so it's not a trivial task. And the key, of course, is not "do we have a few hundred squids?" but "where does the really pretty centralised MySQL database for that particular wiki live?" But this suggests a significant part of the hard thinking on this issue has been done. This ties into the question (which should be easier to raise now) of "how forkable is Wikipedia in practice?" Not for purposes of forking with rancor, but for basic backup hygiene: given the available data, software and configuration information, is it actually feasible to create a working backup of Wikipedia, if the WMF is hit by a legal meteor? This is getting towards a wikitech-l discussion ... but your basic concept is sound: as digital natives, we understand instinctively that the way to preserve something is to spread *lots* of copies of it around. Even if doing so is quite difficult and unwieldy. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
