On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Scanlon jameson.scanlon@googlemail.com wrote:
Two separate sites indicate potential sources of torrents for *.tar.gz downloads of the en wikipedia database material :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps#What_about_bittorrent.3F (so far).
Is it possible for anyone to indicate more comprehensive lists of torrents/trackers than these? Are there any plans for all the database download files to be available in this way (I imagine that there would also be some PDF manual which would go along with these to indicate offline viewing, and potentially more info than this). J
On 4/15/09, Petr Kadlec petr.kadlec@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/14 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com:
IMHO the benefits of separated files are similar to the disadvantages. A side side benefit if it would be that hashes would be splitted, too. If you were unlucky, knowing that 'something' (perhaps just a bit) on the 150GB you downloaded is wrong, is not that helpful. So having hashes for file sections on the big ones, even if not 'standard' would be an improvement.
For that, something like Parchive would probably be better…
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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I seem to remember there being a discussion about the torrenting issue before. In short: there's never been any official torrents, and the unofficial ones never got really popular.
-Chad