On 2/22/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Anyone can host a bittorrent file - it doesn't have to be the WMF.
Well, here's a test. Let me know if this works. It's going to be incredibly slow, of course: http://torrents.brightercomputing.com/torrents-details.php?id=62
If someone with a fast connection wants to act as a seed, the original file is at http://download.wikimedia.org/eowiki/20070209/eowiki-20070209-pages-meta-cur...
And while you're at it, if you've got a fast connection, even if you don't want to be a seed, try making a .torrent file to get us started. I'm not downloading the English Wikipedia right now...
Anthony