Hoi,
May I remind you again that at the time the Vrije Universiteit was testing
in a grid how the performance of a MediaWiki based on peer to peer
technology would cope.. The guy who ran the computing department is known
for MINIX.. it was his development.
Why not run p2p and the central server
Hi All,
Location might be a tangent, if we should go for just two locations. The
change of unwanted things happening in one location is a too high risk
for an organisation of our importance. The change of unwanted things
happening in two, quit remote, locations happening at the same time,
>
> I would suggest Iceland. But there are several other possibilities, Ireland
> and New Zealand for starters.
>
An alternative to be solid should be technically and economically feasible.
Ireland may be ok though I suspect is less cheap than Netherlands or
Germany, I suspect Iceland is even
I would suggest Iceland. But there are several other possibilities, Ireland
and New Zealand for starters.
But Iceland is a nice green location for server farms. Cheap cooling, green
electricity a small enough economy that they wouldn't want to upset the WMF
if it located there, and a government
The files made available as 'Wikimedia dumps' are not intended to be a full
backup. And indeed that is not their purpose. People do set up mirrors
using these dumps from time to time, though I have not done so recently.
Actual honest-to-goodness backups (database snapshots) are another thing
Without in any way suggesting that David's and Fae's question is
inappropriateI suspect that the people most likely to have used/tested
the backups are not people who follow this list; they're much more likely
to participate on technical lists.
It's actually a pretty good question, and Ariel
Location: This is a tangent, one that has been raised before as a
/non-answer/ to the issue of actually getting on with contingency
planning. Realistically I would start by looking at the potential
matches of Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands (where servers already
are used for WMF operations),
AFAIR CODFW can serve as a complete (tested) backup for EQIAD. If the same
would be implemented (though it's not a 5 minutes task) to ESAMS that would
be a first step towards a more distributed infrastructure.
Vito
Il giorno mar 8 gen 2019 alle ore 18:17 Fæ ha scritto:
> Dear fellow
Perhaps that's the answer, James. But maybe there are others as well,
especially since, by their own admission, that tech is not ready for prime
time (meaning fully editable encyclopedia) yet.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 5:17 PM James Salsman wrote:
> Why not just officially support Wikipedia on
Why not just officially support Wikipedia on IPFS, which has been
hosting the Turkish Wikipedia in Turkey, unlike the Foundation, for
almost two years now?
https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/
https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:10 PM
Nathan, when you write "the very nature of Wikipedia is
maybe the best protection there could be, even against the absurdly
unlikely circumstance of a United States government takeover of Wikipedia",
it's very easy for me to fully and totally agree -- as I would have, three
years ago. But in
Hi Fae,
I'm curious what nation you have in mind for your stable Plan B. Is it
Brexit Britain? France of the Yellow Vests and Front National? Perhaps
Orban's Hungary, Putin's Russia, or Germany with its recent right-wing
resurgence?
Maybe you'd prefer Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil? I suppose in Italy
So ... when did someone last test putting up a copy of the sites from
the backups?
(just a complete copy with history, not even at publicly-accessible scale)
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 19:31, Steven Walling wrote:
>
> Great question to think about for our long term sustainability. I think we
>
Great question to think about for our long term sustainability. I think we
already have a universal "plan B" however? It's providing all content under
free licenses and regularly distributing complete dumps of our content.
Many larger and more well-funded technology organizations (Google,
Dear fellow Wikimedians, please sit back for a moment and ponder the following,
For those of us not resident in the US, it has been genuinely alarming
to see highly respected US government archives vanish overnight,
reference websites go down, and US legislation appear to drift to
whatever
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