Andy Rabagliati wrote:
Folks,
Just to keep you up to date, we have had great success with wikipedia installations in schools in South Africa.
I use these images for the install. I have downloaded more recent database snapshots to match with it, but for the most part if they cannot make a difference by reposting changes (which they cannot, as it is quite isolated in bandwidth-space) I just put a June snapshot (same date as the pictures) on.
I've added the image tarball generation to the backup script, so new tarballs will be generated every week from now on. I'll see what I can do regarding rsync or diffs.
I haven't yet added the tarballs to the download.wikimedia.org web page. They can be found by browsing the following directories:
http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/ http://download.wikimedia.org/archives_wiktionary/ http://download.wikimedia.org/archives_wikiquote/ http://download.wikimedia.org/archives_wikibooks/ http://download.wikimedia.org/archives_special/
The upload.tar files are symlinks to the most recent date-specific upload tarball, e.g. 20041013_upload.tar
The legal information regarding tarballs on download.wikimedia.org still applies, quoted below:
"Unlike the article text, many images are not released under GFDL or the public domain. These images are owned by external parties who may not have consented to their use in Wikipedia. Wikipedia uses such images under the doctrine of fair use under United States law. Use of such images outside the context of Wikipedia or similar works may be illegal. Also, many images legally require a credit or other attached copyright information, and this copyright information is contained within the text dumps above. Some images may be restricted to non-commercial use, or may even be licensed exclusively to Wikipedia. Hence, download these images at your own risk."
-- Tim Starling