Hi all;
Just like the scripts to preserve wikis[1], I'm working in a new script to download all Wikimedia Commons images packed by day. But I have limited spare time. Sad that volunteers have to do this without any help from Wikimedia Foundation.
I started too an effort in meta: (with low activity) to mirror XML
dumps.[2] If you know about universities or research groups which works
with Wiki[pm]edia XML dumps, they would be a possible successful target
to mirror them.
If you want to download the texts into your PC, you only need 100GB free and to run this Python script.[3]
I heard that Internet Archive saves XML dumps quarterly or so, but no
official announcement. Also, I heard about Library of Congress wanting
to mirror the dumps, but not news since a long time.
L'Encyclopédie has an "uptime"[4] of 260 years[5] and growing. Will Wiki[pm]edia projects reach that?
Regards,
emijrp
[1] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps
[3] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/source/browse/trunk/wikipediadownloader.py
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die