Dear Jeremy,
On 1/2/13, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
Are you in any of the Debian mirror rotations? (in DNS. or maybe it's an internal mirror?) If you can handle the load / storage then you could become a Wikimedia mirror as well. Actually I'm typing this message on a squeeze box right now. :)
My Debian mirror is a leaf node, and is used internally. Previously, when I used apt-mirror, I downloaded from http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ which is a primary site (DNS round robin). When I switched to ftpsync, I decided to rsync with debian.gtisc.gatech.edu which is a secondary mirror.
I do not have sufficient storage or bandwidth to mirror much of the Wikimedia Foundation's collection (approaching 100T ?). I do mirror a few of the wikipedias (en, simple, xh, zu, and cho), and then only the latest pages and articles, and their image files. This is primarily for the purpose of developing WP-MIRROR and for internal use. Most of my dump/image download experiments are conducted behind a web caching proxy so as to avoid wasting the Foundation's bandwidth (and my own).
Sincerely Yours, Kent