You bring up an interesting point about it going stale, what if a dedicated host was set up (not necessarily at WMF, but maybe by an outside party) who says "We will have the dumps of the largest wikis, up to date and with a live tracker." Would that be something people would be interested in pursuing?
-Chad
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Earle Martin earle@downlode.org wrote:
On 14/04/2008, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
Results on ThePirateBay and a few other sites are about the same, and typically worse.
Sounds like it's time to start seeding again. 3.7 gigs? I can help with that, no problem. Anyone with access to the file (I'm not in .au) want to make a torrent?
Why bother? It will almost certainly take a lot longer to download it via BT, even in Austrailia at the far end of the internet. ;)
(not to mention that that offsite copies will usually end up stale...)
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