I believe it might be capacity issues that they might be facing, although I sent the original email is to get the dumps closer to the Asia Pacific region and reduce latency for likely users of the dumps in the region.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:

If you're a researcher and you'd like the Wikimedia projects dumps to be on AARNet, looks like you need to speak up. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Talk:** Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_**XML_dumps&curid=316421&diff=** 5001005&oldid=5000757&rcid=**3821246https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps&curid=316421&diff=5001005&oldid=5000757&rcid=3821246

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