[Foundation-l] BitTorrent Downloads

[Jeffrey V. Merkey]

Robert Leverington wrote:

>Hi,
>I think this is a great idea, any chance you could give me a URL so
>that I can download the program.
>Thanks.
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikix

ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/MediaWiki/wikix.tar.gz.bz2

Jeff

>On 25/04/07, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>Since I have open sourced the wikix program, now anyone wanting the
>>images can download them directly from Wikipedia.
>>I am in process of restructuring the WikiGadugi site, so anyone wanting
>>the bittorrent downloads need to finish up this week,
>>as I will discontinue them shortly since folks now have the ability to
>>download them directly.   The wikix program
>>is not very intensive on the main Wikimedia servers.   The program is
>>setup to behave as several workstations, and it really
>>does not take that long to get the images.
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>>To date, under ten folks have downloaded the entire image archive, so it
>>does not appear that there is that much interest.
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>>Jeff
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