On 19 February 2010 14:54, Jamie Morken jmorken@shaw.ca wrote:
I hope you guys are planning on adding some way to download the wikimedia commons images too at some point
something that could be fun is git.
plus something like a "ticket system", where you ask for permissions to download a tree inside git, and a temporal password is given to you.
but you don't know, maybe serverside git is killing (CPU?), maybe clientside is too complex for normal users, .. (?)
What about www.wikipirate.org or wikitorrent.org for a list of wikimedia torrents? :) both are available!
nah,.. thats not cool enough, ... what about pirate@HOME?, a screensaver that seed the torrent, with a tiny animation of pirates, and sea, and the wiki logo :-),.. but you don't really want to be associated to that!.
the idea to use Torrent to download snapshots of {insert large file here} has ben discussed before on this mail list, It seems the agrement is that is a bad idea for files that change often (you don't want to have 10 different versions to download, this mean less seeders), there are other problems (like ISP f*cking with the torrent protocol, network overhead, capped downloads, etc. ) but that was the main gripe against torrent.