On 22 November 2011 15:07, burslem burslem@gmail.com wrote:
I doubt there are many people interested in the image tarballs at all, they're just going for the principle of accessibility.
I think the main reason people are calling for complete image dumps is the desire that it should be possible to completely fork Wikipedia (most of them don't actually want to do so, but they want the safety net of being able to).