[Foundation-l] BitTorrent Downloads of enwiki Images

Florence Devouard Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 10 17:25:50 UTC 2007


Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> Florence Devouard wrote:
> 
>> 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 ?
>>
>> ant
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> Danny,
> 
> Jeff


In which capacity ?

ant




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