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List:       wikipedia-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikipedia-l] A proposal for the new software
From:       Jimmy Wales <jwales () bomis ! com>
Date:       2001-10-19 22:44:44
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Tim Chambers wrote:
> How 'bout it, O beneficent and philanthropic owner of the database
> (Jimbo)? Would you be willing to disable the purge of old revisions?
> Seems to me mostly to be a matter of disk space.

Yes, and disk space is increasingly very very cheap.  However, the
machine this is on at the moment isn't exactly overflowing with extra
space.

For now, I've upped the number of days to keep the revision history
from 14 to 28.  That will have the effect of nothing expiring for the
next 14 days.  If disk space isn't an issue at that time, I'll bump it
up further.  If disk space *is* an issue at that time, I'll set the
wheels in motion to move wikipedia to a machine with essentially
infinite disk space.  :-)

Either way, I'm not opposed in principle to keeping _all_ of revision
history, but I'm also not promising beyond what I can really deliver.

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