my decade of dealing with incompetent sysadmins and broken backups (if they even exist) has given me the opposite of confidence.
but im glad you have had a different experience
Oh, I agree that the average bar is low. That's part of the reason I do it all myself.
The heuristic with wikimedia is that they've been running a PHP service that accepts and stores (anonymous) input for 25 years. The longetivity with the risk exposure that they have are indicators that they know what they are doing, and I'm sure they've learned from recovering all sorts of failures over the years.
Look at how quickly it was brought back up in this instance!
So, yeah. I don't think initial hypothetical counterpoint holds water, and that's what I have been pointing out.
i found kibone's reply to a hypothetical musing as if it was some counterpoint in a debate instead of a simple expansion on their comment to be off putting. we had some comments back and forth and we both came out of it just fine. weird of you to add on this little insult to an otherwise pretty normal exchange.
I still don't need to assume what the intent is. Troll or no troll, it works. My comments might inspire someone else to try a CoW fs. I'm also really impressed with wikimedia's technical team.