[Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Sat Sep 17 14:06:08 UTC 2011


David Gerard wrote:
> On 17 September 2011 10:16, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> We need people to try the technical basics of a fork, i.e. taking an
>>> en:wp dump, an images dump, ..
> 
>> Is there an images dump?
> 
> If there isn't, there should be.
> 
> (I'm now trying to work out how to get the images without using up all
> my bandwidth allowances ever.)

It's easy enough to get a VPS with unlimited bandwidth. It's a few terabytes
of data, though, depending on what you're talking about. Thumbnails, current
images, older versions of images, deleted images, math renderings, etc. The
sanest solution probably involves mailing a hard drive to someone and then
having them mail it back.

MZMcBride






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