On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:35:18 -0800, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
Thanks,I'll do that. Sorry, my mistake.
Cheers,
-Jose
Hello, it would be best to send this request to
wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org, the technical
mailing list, because the people there can really help you.
Jose Quesada wrote:
> Hi Jimmy,
>
> I contact you as "Benevolent Dictator" of wikipedia.
> Here at CU we work with corpora of text to train models that
> 'understand'
> language (see, e.g.,
LSA.colorado.edu). We wanted to use Wikipedia to
> create a copyright-free corpus of text that anyone in the scientific
> community could use. To do that we downloaded the DB dumps a while ago
> ( about 2 billion words), but due to a computer problem, we lost them.
>
> I have noticed that the link to the full english database (2280MB):
>
http://download.wikipedia.org/archives/en/20031125_old_table.sql.bz2
>
> doesn't work anymore; it returns a Forbidden error, says that
> you don't have permission to access
> /archives/en/20031125_old_table.sql.bz2 on this server
>
> Could you please grant us access to the file?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> -Jose
>
> PS: I exchanged e-mails with Larry Sanger a while ago. He seemed a
> really
> nice person to me
>
> --
>
> Jose Quesada, PhD.
>
> quesadaj(a)psych.colorado.edu Research associate
>
http://lsa.colorado.edu/~quesadaj Institute of Cognitive Science
> University of Colorado (Boulder)
>
> Muenzinger psychology building Phone:303 492 1522
> office D447A Fax: 303 492 7177
> Campus Box 344
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> Boulder, CO 80309-0344
>
--
Jose Quesada, PhD.
quesadaj(a)psych.colorado.edu Research associate
http://lsa.colorado.edu/~quesadaj Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado (Boulder)
Muenzinger psychology building Phone:303 492 1522
office D447A Fax: 303 492 7177
Campus Box 344
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0344