Maarten Dammers, 13/10/2013 13:50:
Nice, this was really needed for https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Right_to_fork (although I hope that never happens). I wonder who is going to use it and for what. Are you keeping statistics so we can get an idea what gets downloaded and how many times?
There are already counts, see e.g. the descriptions I linked. This archive is mostly a "just in case", but you can never say.
Would it make sense if the WMF seeds some (or all) of these torrents?
Probably not: WMF has very limited bandwidth even for XML dumps, it wouldn't be particularly useful. However, there are many mirrors out there, so convincing some to seed a few torrents would be nice. Archive.org has decent bandwidth and no throttling; unless you happen to reach them via the horrible he.net links (especially transatlantic), it's mostly fine. https://monitor.archive.org/weathermap/weathermap.html
Nemo