[Commons-l] Durova tries to get us more pics

[David Gerard]

On 09/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wikimedia is reaching a point where increases in bandwidth usage *may*
> actually result in reductions the total bandwidth costs. I'm not too
> concerned there. Certainly, Commons itself isn't a major bandwidth
> user.


I'm surprised, given images are large. I suppose thumbnails would be
counted against the wiki they're generated on.


> Nor is capacity... Common's growth over this year looks mostly linear,
> with an average growth rate of 27960 bytes per second.
   [...]
> redundancy (write every image twice, OK), even assume a doubling of
> the growth.. As long as it doesn't go exponential it's not scary at
> all.


You mean like en:wp's popularity? Imagine a popular Commons. (Assuming
we can work out how to deal with the floods of crappy uploads that
will result in.)


> I currently mirror commons (and all WMF images) at home. At the
> current rates have space for a couple of years.  Perhaps we'll have a
> nice growth spike? that would be good: I'd rather outgrow my storage
> before it starts failing on it.


Heh. You realise you have one of the few mirrors of Commons, then. You
may wish to put some tarballs up on download.wikimedia.org.


> Video should only up the rate by a constant factor. .. none of this is
> hard. To make it hard we need the increasing returns that can only
> come from increased adoption.  Commons storage isn't hard but the
> mission of the commoners should be to make it hard.


Precisely :-)


- d.