David Gerard wrote:
I'm not sure it would actually be faster on BitTorrent than just downloading from Wikimedia. The WMF has rather a lot of bandwidth, and full en:wp dumps aren't in a huge amount of demand.
The image dumps were available via bit torrent for a while, but are gone again last I checked. Was there a particular reason why bit torrent was used in that case? Image dumps have been unavailable for many years now so I assume there's some barrier to providing them in the same way as other parts of Wikipedia.