Hello. Was recommended to try this email address about assistance with the wiki dump torrents.

I have been using my Synology file server to share the wiki dump torrents for several years without issues, and would like to keep hosting the torrents. Unfortunately, the current English wiki dump, Jan 2023 seems to have torrent padding, and is not compatible with Synology. Have spoken with Synology and this issue has been outstanding for a while, and they do not anticipate this being fixed any time soon. Seeing if either you can release the next torrent dump without padding, or if you know of another work around.

Have never had an issue with any of the torrent dumps until this Jan 2023 version.

Thank you for the help.

Chris

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 07:30 Hannah Okwelum hokwelum@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hello Chris,

Thanks for hosting the dumps.

Unfortunately, we are not involved with the hosting or formatting of torrent-based dumps. You could send an email to xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org to get more audience to weigh in on your question. You might also get more information on the meta page( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents) about the dumps.

This may not be helpful but you could check the talk page if there is any useful Information for contacting someone with more Information about torrent-based dumps.

Thank you.

Hannah Okwelum

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 5:31 PM Chris Couch chris@couch.ca wrote:

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Hello. I've been helping host the torrent wiki dumps for several years now. The most recent English torrent for 01 Jan 2023 is having problems on my Synology storage system. From what I can figure out, the newest wiki torrent has padding in the file structure to align the files with the blocks. Unfortunately, this method of torrenting is incompatible with the Synology torrent app. I spoke to Synology, and this compatibility request has been outstanding for a while, and doesn't seem to be a priority for them to fix. Wondering if you know of a work around, as I would prefer to continue hosting the wiki dumps.

Thank you in advance.

Chris