Jamie Morken wrote:

Hi,

I think it would be a nice gesture if the wikimedia foundation decentralized some of the internal projects that have had little success over the last few

years.

Two that come to mind are the enwiki pages-meta-history file creation

(1 successful

dump in ~3 years), and apparently very little internal concern over

this, and also

the images/thumbnail wiki-specific dumps that have been neglected for

several years.

If these two projects are opened up to the community I think that would

be great!

cheers, Jamie

What do you mean by "opening"? enwiki pages-meta-history is hard due to its size, not because Ariel or Tomasz being more stupid than any volunteer. I trust them to do it at least as well as a volunteer would. Of course, if you can perform better I'm all for giving you a shell to fix it, and the scripts are there for improvements as well.

What do you need exactly about the images? Which image dumps do you want? Do you have enough terabytes to store them? Dumps/Access has been given by request in the past to that data. If it's not there it's because: a) Those dumps would take a lot of space. b) Nobody feels particulary interested in them.