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(a)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(a)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(a)couch.ca> wrote:
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