On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:22:57 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Since I have open sourced the wikix program, now anyone wanting the images can download them directly from Wikipedia. I am in process of restructuring the WikiGadugi site, so anyone wanting the bittorrent downloads need to finish up this week, as I will discontinue them shortly since folks now have the ability to download them directly. The wikix program is not very intensive on the main Wikimedia servers. The program is setup to behave as several workstations, and it really does not take that long to get the images.
I was under the impression that bulk downloads needed to be throttled, and that it would take a lot longer than that to download everything. Does this just grab the images as fast as it can get them? Is that allowed?