Are you going to keep backups of the original LW1.0 database (preferably multiple copies/locations)?
We plan to. It’s not obvious that those backups will be public by default—we receive database dumps from Trike, which contain both public content like comments and private content like private messages and email addresses—but if there’s interest it doesn’t seem too difficult to create a sanitized version of the database.
It would be amazing if you published a sanitized version of the LW 1.0 DB. In addition to ensuring the content is preserved, that would also make it easier for people to do interesting statistical analyses.
We plan to. It’s not obvious that those backups will be public by default—we receive database dumps from Trike, which contain both public content like comments and private content like private messages and email addresses—but if there’s interest it doesn’t seem too difficult to create a sanitized version of the database.
Yep, I think we should definitely keep a few copies of the db dumps we have, and have them saved on a few different machines.
It would be amazing if you published a sanitized version of the LW 1.0 DB. In addition to ensuring the content is preserved, that would also make it easier for people to do interesting statistical analyses.