geni wrote:
On 07/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Here is where I may ...kinda... agree with Kurt. Space is really immaterial. Disks get bigger faster than they can be filled up. I doubt that we are anywhere near any sort of critical limit there.
Download the entire en database uncompress it and fit it on one internal drive. It used to be fairly easy. Now try that with images.
It's not possible to even try because there is no image tarball one can download. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Currently_Wikipedia_does_not_allow_or_provide_facilities_to_download_all_Images
Now that we've apparently managed to get the text database to dump reliably, does anyone know if this is likely to be addressed any time soon? Or do people who want to mirror Wikipedia still have to rely on scripts to download the images from the live website?