Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> Not to years but yes the English Wikipedia dumps very rarely work. >>> De.wikipedia is starting to suffer the same issues and image database >>> dumps don't happen. >>> >> No, I think it really has been two years (September 2006 to be >> precise). I'm pretty sure there have been no complete dumps this >> calendar year. I believe there was one (or two?) full dump process >> that claimed to run to completion in 2007 but it was later found to >> have been truncated (i.e. it didn't really dump all of enwiki, only a >> portion of it). >> >> If I am wrong and there really is a more recent complete history dump >> of enwiki floating around somewhere, then I'd love to hear about it, >> but I don't believe that is the case. >> > > That sounds about right to me. I think the confusion may come from > there being lots of different dumps - the smaller dumps of enwiki do > succeed (occasionally, at least!), it's the full dump of every > revision of every page that fails routinely. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > Is the data replicated anywhere outside the Tampa data centre (such as in Amsterdam or Seoul)? If not, just one fire, flood or hurricane could destroy the entire en: Wikipedia.
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