Hi there,
I did try to add some information about where the location of the mirrors
are based on the location stated when the announcement for the new mirror
was made. Hopefully it can be a starting point to having an idea of a
mirror with a better bandwidth for end users.
However, all the mirrors are currently either in North/South America or
Europe. This does not really bring benefits of faster bandwidth to Asian
and Australian people, hopefully more mirrors will be set up in these
locations, then will the "download dumps based on fastest bandwidth" have
the fullest effect.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Maria Miteva <mariya.miteva(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi everyone,
WMF constantly releases dumps <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
of
Wikipedia and other WMF projects. As
these are huge files and download is
difficult, there is a constant need of mirrors. The current mirrors are
listed at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Curren…
but
need some organization. Ariel Glenn (CC'ed), who is responsible of XML
dumps, is looking for somebody who can help organize the mirrors so that
people trying to donwload the dumps are offered the closest geographically
up-to-date mirror as it is usually done at other donwload sites. Does
anyone have experience with this?
Also, if anypne has idea of organizations, which might be willing to host a
mirror ( requirements
here<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Requir…
),
please let me or Ariel know.
Mariya
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