On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > Yes. WMF is corporatizing, and that inherently means stuff will > survive longer than personal fly-by-night blogs. If nothing else, > those mailing list and blogs are relatively small - Google Groups and > Usenet is *huge*. If the Archive Team had to rescue those, I doubt > they would be able to retrieve any but a small fraction even with a > long lead time. Size is a problem. When considering this last night, I had visions of someone in a thousand years time accidentally "deleting the 21st century" and having to ask around the obscure back-up locations to see if the data was still around. When reading about the past, you get a real impression of how much was saved, but also how little, and how much was lost. Though change is good as well, I'm still not convinced that future systems won't just collapse (metaphorically) under the sheer weight of material. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
