On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 2/8/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
The worse news is that the dumps would be so huge
that no one will
actually be able to get or use them anyway. ;)
Not true.. Plus it'll be much easier than downloading each of the
images one by one.. especially as long as we still are returning zero
byte content-length replies sometimes.
Agreed. Many people would be interested in a full media dump. Once I
have a dump at hand, I would be happy to provide dumps on disk via snail
mail, for the cost of the disk -- there is certainly a demand for the
material. And I hope that we can develop a network of people willing to
do this.
A while ago I started a page to request dumps; it hasn't gotten any use
yet, but perhaps this will change as dumps grow:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_dumps
SJ