James, your message is absolutely an offtopic in this thread aboud shared hosting of MediaWiki installations by third parties. Could you raise your concerns in a separate thread, not aiming them at Gilles who is completely unable to help you as he's simply doing different stuff at the foundation?
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:51 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Giles, > > I regret I will probably not be available for the IRC office hours as > scheduled. > > In the discussion of shared hosting, I worry that en:User:Dispenser's > reflinks project, which requires a 20 TB cache, is being forgotten > again. He tried to host it himself, but it's offline again. This data > is essential in maintaining an audit trail of references as long as > the Internet Archive respects robots.txt retroactively, allowing those > who inherit domains to censor them, even if they have already been > used as a reference in Wikipedia. Keeping the cache is absolutely a > fair use right in the US, in both statutory and case law, and it is > essential to be able to track down patterns of attempts at deceptive > editing to address quality concerns around deliberately biased editing > such as paid editing. Because of the sensitivity of this goal, the > Foundation should certainly bear the risk of hosting the reflinks > cache. However, in the past, 20 TB was considered excessive, even > though the cost was shown to be less than $5000 without whatever Dell > NSA-enabled hardware you usually buy. > > Would you please reach out to en:User:Dispenser and offer them the > 20TB hosting solution they need for the Foundation to bear the risk of > the reflinks cache? Thank you for your kind consideration. > > Best regards, > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
