Στις 12-11-2011, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 00:31 +1100, ο/η John Vandenberg έγραψε:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:18 PM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: emijrp emijrp@gmail.com Date: 2011/11/11 Subject: Old English Wikipedia image dump from 2005 To: wikiteam-discuss@googlegroups.com
Hi all;
I want to share with you this Archive Team link[1]. It is an old English Wikipedia image dump from 2005. One of the last ones, probably, before Wikimedia Foundation stopped publishing image dumps. Enjoy.
Regards, emijrp
[1] http://www.archive.org/details/wikimedia-image-dump-2005-11
People interested in image dumps may be also interested in my post relating to the GFDL requirements, which I think mean images need to be included in the dumps.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Terms_of_use&diff=prev...
excerpt:
"..the [GFDL] license requires that someone can download a ''complete'' Transparent copy for one year after the last Opaque copy is distributed. As a result, I believe the BoT needs to ensure that the dumps are available ''and'' that they can be available for one year after WMF turns of the lights on the core servers (it allows 'agents' to provide this service). As Wikipedia contains images, the images are required to be included. .."
discussion continues ..
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use#Right_to_Fork
I would read this as requiring access to the images to remain available, not necessarily in dump form.
Unrelated to that, I would still like it if there were a mirror of the Commons images; I guess this would avoid intellectual property rights issues that we could run into with non-free (i.e. fair use) images. In he past we have talked about how this could happen, most likely copying right off the disks. The conensus however was always that we would only be willing to do that if there was a guarantee from the instutition or group wanting the copy that they would maintain a publically accessible mirror.
Providing multiple terabyte sized files for download doesn't make any kind of sense to me. However, if we get concrete proposals for categories of Commons images people really want and would use, we can put those together. I think this has been said before on wikitech-l if not here.
So, can we find some institutions interested in 17T or so of data, growing every day? Educational instutions or organizations involved in open content would seem a good starting point.
Ariel