On 14/04/2008, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
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?
I'm not sure it would actually be faster on BitTorrent than just downloading from Wikimedia. The WMF has rather a lot of bandwidth, and full en:wp dumps aren't in a huge amount of demand.
- d.