Hi,

----- Original Message -----
From: emijrp <emijrp@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, August 13, 2010 4:48 am
Subject: [Xmldatadumps-l] Dumps, dumps, dumps
To: xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org

> Hi all;
>
> Yesterday, I wrote a post[1] with some links to current dumps,
> old dumps,
> and another raw data like Domas visits logs. Also, some links to
> InternetArchive where we can download some historical dumps.
> Please, can you share
> your links?
>
> Also, what about making a tarball with thumbnails from Commons?
> 800x600would be a nice (re)-solution, to avoid a TB dump. If
> not, probably it will
> never be published an image dump. Commons is growing ~5000
> images per day.
> It is scaring.

Yes publicly available tarballs of image dumps would be great.  Here's what I think it would take to implement:

1. allocate the server space for the image tarballs
2. allocate the bandwidth for us to download them
3. decide what tarballs will be made available (ie. separated by wiki or whole commons, thumbnails or 800x600max, etc)
3. write the script(s) for collecting the image lists, automating the image scaling and creating the tarballs
4. done!

None of those tasks are really that difficult, the hard part is figuring out why there used to be tarball images available but not anymore, especially when apparently there is adequate server space and bandwidth.  I guess it is one more thing that could break and then people would complain about it not working.

cheers,
Jamie



>
> Regards,
> emijrp
>
> [1] http://emijrp.blogspot.com/2010/08/wikipedia-dumps.html
>