Stefan Kühn wrote:
Hello!
At the moment I and some other users of the dumps show every day/week/month at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ for a new dump. I use the dump of 10 different languages for my projects (Wikipedia-World, Template-Tiger, Persondata), so it is really work.
I hope someone at this list can program a simple to use "Dump-Mail-Service". Maybe you have time, please do it! :-)
Wouldn't be preferably to have a daemon on the toolserver downloading each new dump (or dumps marked as "someone is interested") ? It would then place them on a common folder for any toolserver user.
When a new dump is out, it could send email alerts (your proposal), start "cron" jobs... Apart of that, your tools could at any time check if there's a dump file newer than your last definition.
PS: You know you can subscribe to RSS feeds for the xml dumps, do you?