[Foundation-l] BitTorrent Downloads of enwiki Images

Florence Devouard Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 10 10:01:55 UTC 2007


Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I have compiled the entire library of Wikipedia's images and have a 
> bittorrent server ready to export this library on the internet.  I am 
> awaiting
> word back from the Foundation for approval to enable the torrents. 
> 
> I have developed an automated C based server system which mirrors all 
> Wikipedia images and compiles them into .bz2 archives as a library based 
> on XML revision and dump.   When I get final approval, I will export 
> these torrents to allow the images to be available from the internet.   
> I will be in Arizona meeting with Dine (Navajo) folks next week on their 
> projects, but will have email access. 
> 
> The torrents will be available at
> 
> http://www.wikigadugi.org:2780
> 
> At some point.  I will let folks know when and if the Foundation has 
> approved this.    
> 
> :-)
> 
> Jeff


Just to be sure... Who did you ask approval from ?

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