I believe it might be capacity issues that they might be facing, although I sent the original email is to get the dumps closer to the Asia Pacific region and reduce latency for likely users of the dumps in the region.<br><br>

<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com" target="_blank">nemowiki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

If you&#39;re a researcher and you&#39;d like the Wikimedia projects dumps to be on AARNet, looks like you need to speak up.<br>
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