Folks who are interested in downloading tarballs of media for their
particular project can now do so from:
http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/
In this directory you will see two subdirectories, "fulls" and
"incrs".
The way this works is that once a month near the beginning of the month
we will produce a series of tarballs for each project of media uploaded
locally and media stored on commons. During the month, at least once
but hopefully twice, we will produce tarballs containing the files
uploaded locally or included from commons since the "full" tarball
date.
No tarballs are being produced for commons itself, given that it's 14T
and there would be no separate locally uploaded/remotely uploaded lists.
Instead please use rsync to get those files directly from:
rsync://ftpmirror.your.org/wikimedia-images/wikipedia/commons/
Also, please bear in mind that for author and license information you
should download the corresponding pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 file from
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ or your local mirror, and check the
corresponding File: description pages for your project or commons.
And now it's time as usual for the Big Fat Disclaimer:
We're still running these manually, it's possible that we won't make the
planned schedule for a given run or runs, network connectivity might be
unstable, etc. etc. Its also possible we will restructure the fulls so
that they take a lot less space and rely on three series of tarballs for
some projects.
Thanks once again to
your.org for donating the time, space and bandwidth
to make this possible.
Ariel