On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Andrew Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Currently all data, including private data, is replicated to the
> >> toolserver. We could not do this with a third-party server.
> > My understanding is that the the toolserver(/s) are owned by the
> > german chapter and not by wikimedia directly so why is private data
> > being replicated onto them?
>
> Because it was chosen as the best technical solution. Is there a
> specific problem with private data being on the toolserver? If so,
> what?
>
> You should be aware that toolserver roots are approved by the
> foundation before becoming roots.


You answer the questions in your first paragraph with your sentence in the
second.   Think Cathedral vs. Bazaar.

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>wrote:
> Robert Rohde schrieb:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Logistically it would be nice to have a means of providing an
> exclusively public data replica for purposes such as research, though
> I can certainly see how that could get technically messy.
>
> As far as I know, there is simply no efficient way to do this currently.

How much information does the live feed provide?  Every revision, or just a
subset of revisions?  How much would it cost the WMF to provide a single
near-live stream of every revision?
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