On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:23 PM, 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'd be interested in a third party server which keeps an up-to-date copy of the server and allows on-demand dumps (so you could request, say everything modified since December 21, 2007) and other specialized queries. Kind of like toolserver, except account allocation would be based on willingness to pay rather than whatever the process is for getting access to toolserver.