----- Original Message -----
From: "William Pietri" <william(a)scissor.com>
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] downloading wikipedia database dumps
On 01/07/2010 01:40 AM, Jamie Morken wrote:
I have a
suggestion for wikipedia!! I think that the database dumps including
the image files should be made available by a wikipedia bittorrent
tracker so that people would be able to download the wikipedia backups
including the images (which currently they can't do) and also so that
wikipedia's bandwidth costs would be reduced. [...]
Is the bandwidth used really a big problem? Bandwidth is pretty cheap
these days, and given Wikipedia's total draw, I suspect the occasional
dump download isn't much of a problem.
Bittorrent's real strength is when a lot of people want to download the
same thing at once. E.g., when a new Ubuntu release comes out. Since
Bittorrent requires all downloaders to be uploaders, it turns the flood
of users into a benefit. But unless somebody has stats otherwise, I'd
guess that isn't the problem here.
William
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