[Foundation-l] BitTorrent Downloads of enwiki Images

Gary Kirk gary.kirk at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 17:28:27 UTC 2007


Oh I see. Danny Wool. I missed that.

On 10/03/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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