On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 2/8/07, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
The worse news is that the dumps would be so huge that no one will actually be able to get or use them anyway. ;)
Not true.. Plus it'll be much easier than downloading each of the images one by one.. especially as long as we still are returning zero byte content-length replies sometimes.
Agreed. Many people would be interested in a full media dump. Once I have a dump at hand, I would be happy to provide dumps on disk via snail mail, for the cost of the disk -- there is certainly a demand for the material. And I hope that we can develop a network of people willing to do this.
A while ago I started a page to request dumps; it hasn't gotten any use yet, but perhaps this will change as dumps grow: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_dumps
SJ