On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:31:45PM +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Richard Jelinek, 17/01/2015 19:59:
latest at our servers is aar-20141223.xml.bz with 22974 bytes
22974 entire bytes! What a terrible waste! If we want to save space, I propose to cut on some formats of en.wiki dumps. *That* would save a lot of resources. ;-)
[x] optimizing en.wiki dumps is a different topic where we may agree [ ] you understood the problem of this topic
a) it's only one of many examples (because of it's iso-code the 1st) b) Speaking of resources, I spoke of space, time and attention you stopped reading after "space" - it seems c) How about installing a bot that will send only a couple of meaningless bytes to this ML periodically? Not a big deal - is it?
d) to z) left as an exercise to the reader.
kind regards,