On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Scanlon
<jameson.scanlon(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/4/14 Platonides
<Platonides(a)gmail.com>om>:
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