[Foundation-l] what do we do in the event the Foundation fails? - Re: Policy governance ends

[Jeff V. Merkey]

David Gerard wrote:

>On 18/04/07, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Interesting. Copying one subfolder (1/256 of files) is much more
>>affordable.
>>But how would you /copy/ them? Server admin probably doesn't want users
>>downloading those filesizes... Which goes to the imho original problem
>>of not having image dumps.
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>I suppose the devs could come up with something suitable - dumping one
>subfolder at a time, torrent the lot.
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>I'll buy a couple of 400GB outboard disks and keep the files up for
>torrenting! Anyone else?
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>- d.
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I have a replicating program that will download and pull ALL images from 
Wikimedia. It reads the dumps and spawns
parallel processes and can suck down commons completely in 36 hours. 
Want a copy.

Jeff

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