Hoi, No they are not backed up outside the USA. I am not so sure there are off line backups/ Thanks, GerardM
On 27 January 2017 at 10:10, Peter Southwood <peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > I hope the servers are backed up outside the USA in at least two places > and that the data is also backed up off-line somewhere to make it > unhackable. > Cheers, > Peyer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of Romaine Wiki > Sent: Friday, 27 January 2017 5:34 AM > To: Wikimedia > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Concerns in general > > Today I was reading in the (international) news about websites with > knowledge on the topic of climate change disappear from the internet as > result of the Trump administration. The second thing I read is that before > something can be published about this topic, the government needs to > approve this. > > Do you realise what the right word for this is? censorship. > Even if it is only partially. > > Luckily there are many scientists working on getting all the data abroad, > out of the US to ensure the research data is saved, including on servers in > the Netherlands where Trump (hopefully) has no reach. > > In the past week I was reading about the Internet Archive organisation, > who is making a back up in Canada because of the Trump administration. I > did not understood this, you may call me naive, but now I do understand, > apparently they have some visionary people at the Internet Archive. > > I miss a good answer to this situation from the Wikimedia Foundation. > > Trump is now promoting harassment and disrespect, already for some time, > > What signal is given to the rest of the world if an America based > organisation is spreading the thought of a harassment free Wikipedia and > the free word, while the president of the US is promoting harassment, > disrespect and censorship on a massive scale. > > This is just the first week of this president! > > I am 100% sure everyone in the Wikimedia movement is willing to make sure > Wikimedia faces no damage whatsoever, including in WMF, but to me this > still starts to get concerning. > > If we as Wikimedia movement think that free knowledge, free speech, > freedom of information, etc are important, I would think that the location > where the organisation is based is that country where liberty is the > largest, I do not know where this is but it is definitely not the US. > > To my impression WMF is stuck in the US, so I do not believe they would > actually move when the danger grows. > > But I think it is possible to make sure risks are spread over the world. > Certainly as we are an international movement that intends to cover the > knowledge of the whole humanoid civilisation. > > To come to a conclusion, I think WMF and the Wikimedia movement should > think about a back-up plan if it actually goes wrong. > > > If you do not agree with me: that is perfectly fine, that's your right and > should be protected. > > Thank you. > > Romaine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2016.0.7998 / Virus Database: 4749/13841 - Release Date: 01/26/17 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>