On 17 September 2011 15:06, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 17 September 2011 10:16, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
We need people to try the technical basics of a fork, i.e. taking an en:wp dump, an images dump, ..
Is there an images dump?
If there isn't, there should be.
(I'm now trying to work out how to get the images without using up all my bandwidth allowances ever.)
It's easy enough to get a VPS with unlimited bandwidth. It's a few terabytes of data, though, depending on what you're talking about. Thumbnails, current images, older versions of images, deleted images, math renderings, etc. The sanest solution probably involves mailing a hard drive to someone and then having them mail it back.
MZMcBride
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Of course if you're only thinking about forking Wikipedia, rather than Commons, you can just use InstantCommons [1]. For English Wikipedia you'd still have a lot of fair use to copy, but German and many other languages wouldn't have that problem.
That said, there really ought to be an image dump available too.
Pete / the wub