Should/Does Wikipedia have an actual contingency plan in case everything hits the fan?

I know that there is this joke page about an emergency wikipedia plan: Wikipedia:Terminal Event Management Policy - Wikipedia

But…should it be a joke? Is there any plan in place to hide some rocks in caves or something so that this great wealth of information can be passed on to future generations? I mean, almost everything in this article sounded about right of how we should proceed in making hard copies of this information.

Nope, it should be followed to the letter.

Not really. But with some corrections to some of the ideas it sounds pretty fantastic.
Or, I could just get an EMP proof box, have a 2TB hard drive, and sync it to a computer to update the entire site onto it daily until the world collapses.

They’re launching probes onto all pre-Garden worlds containing schematics for the Crucible and warnings about the mass relays, the Citadel, and the Reapers.

That’ll be awesome for a world without power/the cavemen who rise up in our wake after the asteroid hits.

And almost as useful as a paper printout of the entire thing!

The problem with all the data preservation methods I’m seeing here is that most seem unlikely to retain readable information for anything approaching geologic time frames. I know that various bits of information have been sent with deep-space probes and that they have a good chance of lasting for many millenia; the problem is finding these tiny things again in a vast volume of space.

My apologies if someone has already thought of this. I’m thinking of something more earthbound, able to somehow retain information while subject to corrosion and weathering processes. Now, I’m blissfully ignorant of the precise techniques that would be required, but how about something along the lines of growing tiny crystals of dissimilar but long-lasting minerals (i.e. quartz and something else) on an equally long-lasting substrate? The alternating mineral types could make a binary code, spell out letters or even produce illustrations; add some sort of key and you’re good to go. Such a material should be able to withstand burial for a long, long time, maybe tens of thousands of years. If the minerals are carefully selected, they could even go through the diagenetic or metamorphic processes typical of long-buried sediments and still retain information, even if somewhat degraded.

I dub this the really hard copy.

Missed edit window. For the above, look at how long glazed pottery lasts. Something like that, maybe, but carrying more sophisticated info than pictures of hunters and animals.

ETA: Er, and longer lasting than the laser-etched metal I just noticed was mentioned in the article.

Papyrus - Wikipedia ?

Excuse me, when did you ever say anything about an Asteroid? I figured you meant more of a human caused problem. Like, EMP or Nukes.

Well, somebody apparently needs to point this out, unless my sarcasm meter is on the fritz again - at the bottom of the Wikipedia article:

“Categories: Wikipedia humor | Wikipedia April Fools’ Day 2009”

Anybody else remember the Internet RFC about using carrier pigeons as a substitute in case the Internet goes down?

Which is why we need to carve it in granite ASAP. I have not to this day solved the granite edit war problem.

I’ll have you know that RFC 1149 has been tested and successfully implemented, sir. Because evidently geeks have waaaay too much free time.

(For the record, let it be known that I consider the subsequent stunt involving pigeons carrying SD cards to achieve higher throughput to constitute[SIZE=1] cheating of the basest sort)[/SIZE]