On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:18 -0700, Simetrical wrote:
Even the pages-articles one (articles/templates/image descriptions/primary meta-pages) is quite a lot too large, it looks like, at 2.7 GB bz2'd. And that's leaving out images.
Speaking of images... I have the circa 2005 image.tar here for the English Wikipedia (about 70gb of images).
I've heard that if it were possible to tar up the latest images, it would be > 300gb. Is this accurate?
Is there a better way to retrieve them without slamming the servers or putting more pressure on brion and friends to tar them up? A torrent file perhaps?
I've got several terabytes of storage and plenty of bandwidth to host them on our public trackers, if such a thing were to even exist.