See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q1#Cloud_Services
Program
Smart tools for better data
Goal
Make Wikimedia data easily available for both the Foundation and the different Wiki communities by providing better tools, infrastructure, and access to data for editors, communities, and Foundation staff.
Outcome
Wikimedia Cloud Services users have easy access to public data.
Objectives, Activities, Milestones, and Targets
- Objective 1: Provide reliable and available access to Wikimedia database dumps by upgrading the hardware used and consolidating access by internal teams, Cloud Services users, external mirrors, and HTTPS downloaders to the new canonical location.
- Objective 2: Complete migration of production database replica access for Cloud services customers to the new high-availability cluster, which uses 'row based' replication technology to provide a more consistent view of production data.
- Objective 3: Collaborate with Wikimedia Cloud Services customers to publish new applicable data sets