Dear All,
I am User:Hydriz on Wikimedia wikis and I am working on a grant proposal to facilitate browsing and downloading of Wikimedia datasets (including the database dumps as well as other datasets). It is a proposed rewrite of the existing system which focused primarily on archiving the datasets to the Internet Archive. [1]
My proposal aims to modernize the software used for automatically archiving datasets to the Internet Archive. More importantly, it aims to put researchers and downloaders first, by providing both a human-readable and a machine-readable interface for browsing and downloading datasets, whether present or historical. I also intend to integrate a "watchlist" feature that can automatically notify users when new datasets are available.
Please do express your support for this proposal and help make this project a reality. Thank you!
Warmest regards. Hydriz Scholz
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Hydriz/Balchivist_2.0