On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Accepted by whom? Co-lo a box on the Internet, and
ask the Foundation for
permission to create the dump. A single thread downloading articles to a
single server isn't going to impact the project. It probably wouldn't even
be *noticed*.
It would also take even longer than the Wikimedia dumps. Say 500ms
average to request a single revision. Multiply by 250,000,000
revisions. I get a figure of four years. You're going to need a lot
more than a single thread to get a remotely recent dump. You probably
couldn't even keep up with the rate of new revision creation with a
single thread blocking on each HTTP request.