[Foundation-l] BitTorrent Downloads of enwiki Images

Jeffrey V. Merkey jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com
Sat Mar 10 18:08:51 UTC 2007


Anthony wrote:

>On 3/9/07, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>How much compression did the .bz2 provide?  This would be much more
>useful as a .tar.
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There is also a .tar for each archive.

Jeff

>Also, echoing others, what do you need approval for?
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>Anthony
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