[Foundation-l] Image dumps, html dumps, and static copies missing

[Samuel Klein]

Are there good unofficial sites with mirrors and dumps?  Is anyone using a
live feed to generate same?

Here is one of those core project support tasks that only the Foundation can
do at the moment, that never seems to become a priority... but is
fundamental to supporting a broad network of people who are carrying out
their own Wikipedia and related initiatives.

Among the core ways that the projects' work gets out into the world is
through full dumps provided by the foundation in all languages.  There
aren't many people with access to the databases to generate those dumps, and
it often requires scheduling machine processor and disk time from inside the
cluster to carry out regular dumps effectively.

Image dumps haven't worked reliably since sometime in 2005.  I blogged about
this in mid-2006, at which point I believe there was a bittorrent option but
no other; the bittorrent option hasn't worked for over a year.
  http://downloads.wikimedia.org/images/    used to offer a few 2006-era
dump links; those too are now gone.

Static versions of the site have also been available from time to time -- at
the moment, the links from download.wikimedia.org are broken:
  http://static.wikipedia.org/

And html dumps of the projects have been generated from time to time; I
don't know why these are presented separately from the full dump-lists
(which generate xml dumps in many gratifying varieties), but the process
involved needs some upkeep.   At the moment, one can only get wikipedia
dumps from february for languages aa to eml.
   http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/2008-02/

Cheers,
SJ