Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Yes, all the mirrors in the world included Amazon. No reply from them either and I'm not going to write companies who don't have a mirroring program/an explicit interest in the offer. It's appreciated if others do, though. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Yes, all the mirrors in the world included Amazon. No reply from them either and I'm not going to write companies who don't have a mirroring program/an explicit interest in the offer. It's appreciated if others do, though. Yeah, 34 TB is still a lot of data,

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks MZ for your suggestion to ask money. I'm not interested. For those who are: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Commons_tarballs_seedbox Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Deploying a centralized questionnaire to all pages of a specific Category.

2014-08-02 Thread Val Ingten
Hello, I'm trying to find if there's a way (extension or built in functionality) to create a list of questions on a specific page then deploy this set of questions on say every page of a certain Category. Also, when the questions are deployed to a specific category, i'd need to give users a way

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying a centralized questionnaire to all pages of a specific Category.

2014-08-02 Thread Arcane 21
You might wish to try this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Quiz Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:12:51 -0400 From: valing...@gmail.com To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Deploying a centralized questionnaire to all pages of a specific Category. Hello, I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread Pine W
When we get Wikimedia Cascadia (name decision still pending) approved and have our legal paperwork in order we could potentially host a Commons or other Wikimedia backup. I think this would be doable if we can work out the legal issues and WMF approves a GAC request for some cheap storage. Pine

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Aug 2, 2014 8:17 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I think this would be doable if we can work out the legal issues and WMF approves a GAC request for some cheap storage. What legal issues do you envision? -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread Pine W
No offense, I would prefer that Cascadia discuss potential legal issues privately with WMF before we start speculating in public. There is probably a way to make this successful in the end. Pine On Aug 2, 2014 5:19 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Aug 2, 2014 8:17 PM, Pine W

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread OQ
S3 prices have dropped since that page was last modified so the 2200 quoted is about 1200 now a month. If the data doesn't need retrieved except for rare cases, putting in on Glacier would drop it closer to 350-400 On Aug 2, 2014 12:51 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks MZ

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Aug 2, 2014 8:25 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: No offense, I would prefer that Cascadia discuss potential legal issues privately with WMF before we start speculating in public. There is probably a way to make this successful in the end. I find that rather confusing. As the legal

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread Pine W
Yes, those plus a few others. Yes WMF counsel can't act as Cascadia's counsel but I would want to see what terms WMF might offer like indemnifying Cascadia for any issues relating to archiving the Commons content. Pine On Aug 2, 2014 5:32 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Aug 2,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Commons-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

2014-08-02 Thread Daniel Mietchen
The issue of mirroring Wikimedia content has been discussed with a number of scholarly institutions engaged in data-rich research, and the response was generally of the send us the specs, and we will see what we can do kind. I would be interested in giving this another go if someone could provide