On 13 September 2010 21:14, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that Jamie has started an important topic. I don't think that WMF is > going to usurp Wikipedia and the sister projects now or in the future, but > it is statistically possible. If we want to protect us, the human knowledge > and our work of this hypothetical scenario, we need complete full dumps > frequently. But this scenario is a malicious one, and I think that there are > many more dangerous posibilities, and unfortunately, they are common. > For example, small or massive lost of data due to natural disasters, > crackers attacks, stolen passwords, hardware and software bugs, sudden crazy > sysops, and _human errors_. Is WMF ready for that?
Shit happening is by far more likely than malice. Denise considers job #1 the elimination of existing single points of failure, so that's something. And she knows her stuff. And has the proper sysadminly horror at the notion of systems susceptible to such. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
