[fodkodrasz]

I just hope they have robust backups and disaster-recovery plans, as Gentoo Wiki once had a terrible data loss, and it was like the burning of the Alexandria Library, I feel that put the distro to a decline. I don't use Arch (I used Gentoo in those times), but these collaborative knowledge bases are too precious to be lost.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44900319

[myself248]

I download the Kiwix copy of the Arch wiki every year or two, as my offline source of linux knowledge in case I find myself offline for some reason.

[redox99]

Wouldn't everything be on the internet archive? And common crawl?

[aeroevan]

Being on the internet archive and being able to pick up from a restored backup are two very different things

[redox99]

It's a wiki. Maybe you lose the edit history and stuff like that, but the actual content which is what matters should be very easy to recreate from those sources.