Roan Kattouw wrote:

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2010/11/26 Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com:

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Somehow I think that publishing an entire dump violates the "do not publish significant parts of an article" rule.

Surely the toolserver admins could be asked to consider waiving that in this case considering the public nature of the dumps and the downtime situation with download.wm.o

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

It's not that toolserver admins are excentric adding such rule, but an issue of WM-DE liability if such information is published.

However, I think that providing such file to just a few selected people would be acceptable.

I am also waiting to download the xml dumps from de.wp and en.wp since the servers are down. If you provide them on a mirror or on an alternative server, I would appreciate if you could give me access, too.

How likely do you think that the server is running again next week? According to http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Dataset1 it sounds like if the firmware problem was solved, the server should be back again, right? In such case I would simply wait until the official server is running again.

Sven