Hi,
Anthony, what do you mean what's wrong with archive.org?
All the current mirrors
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Current_Mirrors>
are
located in the Americas and Europe. It would be great for users around the
world to have geographically closer mirrors likely to offer better
bandwidth. I am really happy to hear about Wikimedia Australia working on
hosting the dumps. Get in touch with Ariel when you need help with that.
Mariya
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
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This is quite a timely topic, as I had just been about to send out a
message about our Australian plans …****
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As part of our 2013 Annual Plan, Wikimedia **Australia** has put aside
some funds towards hosting these dumps in ****Australia****. We are
already in conversation with one of the large research high-performance
computing facility and some other partners about setting this up. Funds
permitting, our long-term vision is to not only host the dumps in raw form
but also to process the dumps in various ways to make it easier for
researchers to work with and for us at Wikimedia Australia to be more able
to extract KPIs and create an evidence base in terms of impacts our
initiatives have on Australian editors and Australian content. And there
should be high-performance support for those researchers wishing to do
complex analysis of the data. ****
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To that end, I would like to create a mailing list of Australian
researchers who either have used or wish to use these data dumps. This is
partly because I need to show that there is a community of researchers to
justify the initial resource allocation and partly because I need input on
the ways we might pre-process the dumps to make them most accessible for
research purposes and finally because we might need to work together on
some funding applications (e.g. ARC LIEF, NECTAR, etc) to realise the full
vision.****
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So, if you are a researcher in ****Australia****, please let me know you
are and what you have done or hope to do with Wikipedia data. Feel free to
circulate to interested colleagues. ****
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Thanks****
** **
Kerry****
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*From:* wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Maria Miteva
*Sent:* Monday, 25 February 2013 11:35 PM
*To:* wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Cc:* Ariel Glenn WMF
*Subject:* [Wiki-research-l] Looking for mirrors for Data dumps****
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Hi everyone, ****
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As you can see on top of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps, WMF
is actively looking for help archiving and distributing data dumps. It
would be great if you could check with the institutions you are associated
with if they have available storage and bandwidth to donate. It would make
it easier to keep better dump archives and improve downlaod speed. You can
see more about the requirements
here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dump…ts>.
Ariel Glenn(in CC) will be happy to help anyone willing to host a mirror.
****
** **
Thank you. ****
** **
Mariya****
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