New subject: [Xmldatadumps-l] Proposed Project Grant for browsing and downloading Wikimedia datasets - Balchivist 2.0

15 Mar 2021

Dear All,

I am User:Hydriz on Wikimedia wikis and I am working on a grant
proposal to facilitate browsing and downloading of Wikimedia datasets
(including the database dumps as well as other datasets). It is a
proposed rewrite of the existing system which focused primarily on
archiving the datasets to the Internet Archive. [1]

My proposal aims to modernize the software used for automatically
archiving datasets to the Internet Archive. More importantly, it aims
to put researchers and downloaders first, by providing both a
human-readable and a machine-readable interface for browsing and
downloading datasets, whether present or historical. I also intend to
integrate a "watchlist" feature that can automatically notify users
when new datasets are available.

Please do express your support for this proposal and help make this
project a reality. Thank you!

Warmest regards.
Hydriz Scholz

[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Hydriz/Balchivist_2.0