It doesn't really look like a mirror to me. The download links still point to download.wikimedia.org.

Regards,
Hydriz

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hydriz


> From: ariel@wikimedia.org
> To: xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:20:12 +0300
> Subject: [Xmldatadumps-l] first mirror of most recent XML dumps, at C3SL in Brazil
>
> As the subject says, the first mirror of our XML dumps is up, hosted at
> C3Sl in BRazil. We're really excited about it. Details are listed on
> the main index page on our download server
> ( http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ ) and are reproduced below for everyone's
> convenience:
>
> Site: Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre (C3SL), at the
> Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil.
> Contents: the 5 most current complete and successful dumps of each
> project
> Access: HTTP: http://wikipedia.c3sl.ufpr.br/
> FTP: ftp://wikipedia.c3sl.ufpr.br/wikipedia/
> rsync: rsync://wikipedia.c3sl.ufpr.br/wikipedia/
>
> A big thank you to the folks there for providing the space and working
> with us to make it happen.
>
> Please forward this on to researchers or others who might want to know
> about it but aren't on these lists.
>
> Ariel Glenn
> Software Developer / Systems Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
> ariel@wikimedia.org
>
>
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