Ricky Beam schrieb:
And
there generally are far too few people to make a usable swarm.
I doubt that (for the bigger Wikipedia languages), given the number of
Wikipedia clones, local installations and the number of bot operators
using dumps.
(Plus,
wiki has better network connectivity than most that download the files.)
This might be true in your location, but for me (in Germany) the
database download normally comes with 50 to 60 kbytes/s (which is fast
enough to use it the next day), but could easily be raised by a swarm of
5 ADSL users already.
BT is good for distributing large files to numerous
users.
So the question is: Can someone provide some download statistics?
Ciao, Michael.