Hoi,
The basic problem with all these images at archive.org is the same Commons has. How do you find that useful image. Commons is where you can contribute but how about actually using and finding all the great material that is hidden so well ?
Thanks,
     GerardM


On 14 October 2013 13:15, Hay (Husky) <huskyr@gmail.com> wrote:
Brilliant! Now we just need someone with a good idea, a fast
connection and huge hard drives to do cool stuff with all those images
:)

-- Hay

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Nicely done, you guys!
>
> Fabrice
>
>
> On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
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> +1 kudos to the whole wikiteam!
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> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
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> Nice work Nemo!
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> 2013/10/13 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>
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> WikiTeam has just finished archiving all Wikimedia Commons files up to
>
> 2012 (and some more) on the Internet Archive:
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> https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons
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> So far it's about 24 TB of archives and there are also a hundred torrents
>
> you can help seed, ranging from few hundred MB to over a TB, most around 400
>
> GB.
>
> Everything is documented at
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Media_tarballs>
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Nicely done, you guys!
>
> Fabrice
>
>
> On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>
> +1 kudos to the whole wikiteam!
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
> <emijrp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nice work Nemo!
>
>
>
> 2013/10/13 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>
>
>
> WikiTeam has just finished archiving all Wikimedia Commons files up to
>
> 2012 (and some more) on the Internet Archive:
>
> https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons
>
> So far it's about 24 TB of archives and there are also a hundred torrents
>
> you can help seed, ranging from few hundred MB to over a TB, most around 400
>
> GB.
>
> Everything is documented at
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Media_tarballs>
>
> and if you want here are some ideas to help WikiTeam with coding:
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