On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anthony wrote: > > (although I still haven't seen the WMF step up > > to the plate and make it easy for people to make a full history fork, or > > even to download all the images) > > You'll find full history dumps of almost all wikis at > http://download.wikimedia.org/ Key word being "almost". Although not trivial, downloading all images is in fact quite easy. Yep. All I need is permission. > But do you have enough space to dedicate? Not at the moment. No sense in buying the drives when I don't have permission to fill them up. > How many wikis do you want to mirror? Just commons is more than 3 TB... Commons and En.wikipedia would probably be good for starters. The main thing I want is permission to scrape en.wikipedia, though. (Not really scraping, as I'd probably use the API and Special:Export. Basically I just would like someone official to tell me how *fast* I'm allowed to use the API and Special:Export. Special:Export especially, because I could easily overwhelm the servers using that, due to a bug in the script.) That's the reason so few people were interested in the images when the > image dump was available. I downloaded it. It was well under 1 TB at the time. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
