Paul A. Houle, 15/10/2013 00:35:

I’d like to see the Commons backups available in the AMZN S3 cloud, even if it is only as “requester pays”. Frankly, my experience is that getting data from the Internet Archive is so slow that I wonder if they are on the Moon.

When did you try last time? They recently increased their bandwidth.

My infovore framework AMZN has had a policy of offering free S3 storage for public data sets – I’d like to see them take this program to the next level with data sets of this nature.

It seems anyone can request it, anyway I sent an inquiry. The datasets they have (XML dumps) are very outdated: https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/Encyclopedic/4182 https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/Encyclopedic/2506 https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/Encyclopedic/2596 Everybody can ask to other mirrors (I already asked GARR), some ideas at https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors

Nemo