Hi All,
Commons.wikimedia.org is growing and provides a quite complete set
of media files including a lot of interesting historical documents.
Contributors are relying on the availability and persistence of
commons.wikimedia.org but currently the full export is only
available on
2009/7/18 Alexandre Dulaunoy a...@foo.be:
I was wondering if it would be possible to allow web robots to access
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ to gather and mirror
the media files. As this is pure HTTP, the mirroring could benefit from
the caching mechanisms of HTTP object
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:20 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/18 Alexandre Dulaunoy a...@foo.be:
I was wondering if it would be possible to allow web robots to access
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ to gather and mirror
the media files. As this is pure HTTP, the
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/18 Alexandre Dulaunoy a...@foo.be:
I was wondering if it would be possible to allow web robots to access
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ to gather and mirror
the media files. As this is pure HTTP, the
2009/7/18 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
It'd actually be better if Google properly indexed text pages whose
name ends in .jpg or whatever ... but they're aware we'd like that, so
it's up to them.
Which is why my
Since the static HTML Wikipedia is not updating (please update), and XML
updates like everyday, the logical choice is to go with XML. Is there any
way to convert XML to HTML, like the static HTML version? I need it in HTML,
and I don't want a one year old version of Wikipedia, with all the useless
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
For what it's worth, I also don't think SSL is worthless. I don't
personally see any reason to go out of my way to use it, and think
it's a little odd for someone else to do that given the marginal
benefit it would provide by any metric. But I'd definitely agree that
if it
