On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:42 AM, ANDREW F OFALT <[email protected]> wrote: > yea, too bad that wikipedia is the only place online to get information. > What happens if they have a network problem or a computer outage. > All of the worlds information would be lost.
I know you're being ironic, but just FYI to anyone reading: All information contributed to Wikipedia is Free Content, and per the license can be reproduced, modified, reused, etc., by anyone, so long as attribution is provided. They also publish the article database for download by anyone. That's why there are so many third-party sites which are basically just a Wikipedia mirror with advertisements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download At last count, just the current revisions of just the articles were ~31 GB uncompressed. The "everything" dump reportedly decompresses to more than 5 terabytes. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
