Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> Date: Friday, August 13, 2010 4:48 am Subject: [Xmldatadumps-l] Dumps, dumps, dumps To: xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Yes publicly available tarballs of image dumps would be great.  Here's what I think it would take to implement: 1. allocate the server space for the image tarballs 2. allocate the bandwidth for us to download them 3. decide what tarballs will be made available (ie. separated by wiki or whole commons, thumbnails or 800x600max, etc) 3. write the script(s) for collecting the image lists, automating the image scaling and creating the tarballs 4. done! None of those tasks are really that difficult, the hard part is figuring out why there used to be tarball images available but not anymore, especially when apparently there is adequate server space and bandwidth.  I guess it is one more thing that could break and then people would complain about it not working. cheers, Jamie

Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ariel T. Glenn" <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:15 am Subject: Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Dumps, dumps, dumps To: Jamie Morken <jmorken(a)shaw.ca> Cc: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com>om>, xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org There is the script wikix that people have used to manually download images from wikis: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikix It generates a list of all the images in an XML dump and then downloads them.  The only thing missing is the image scaling, without that the enwiki image dump will be too large for most people to use right now.  ImageMagick, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick could work to scale the various formats of images to smaller sizes. Here's a script snippet I found using it in the bash shell: #!/bin/sh find /media/SHAWN\ IPOD/Songs/ -iname "*.png"| while read file; do convert -size 75x75 "$file" -resize 100x100 "cover.bmp" cp cover.bmp "${file%/*}"/. done If wikimedia foundation provides a dump of images I think people will find good ways to use them in interesting ways.  Dumps of enwiki images with a max size of 640x480 or 800x600 and also enwiki thumbnails are the two subsets I think would be most valuable. cheers, Jamie