Hi,
I noticed that there is considerable delay between the weekly Wikidata
JSON dump appearing online and the file appearing on the Labs servers
[1]. For example, the 20160502 dump is online right now, but there is
only an empty directory for this date on Labs.
In retrospect, file modification dates on Labs give the appearance that
the files have been around earlier than they seem to be, but they have
not been available at this time last week either. As it is now, it is
faster to download the dump instead of waiting for the file to show up
in the central location, but it's probably not intended that each tool
gets its own copy. For a weekly dump, half a day of delay is significant.
Any ideas (including whom to ask)?
Cheers,
Markus
[1] Under /public/dumps/public/wikidatawiki/entities/
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Markus Kroetzsch
Faculty of Computer Science
Technische Universität Dresden
+49 351 463 38486
http://korrekt.org/