[Foundation-l] Amazon Public Data includes Wikipedia

[Samuel Klein]

thread convergence!  It didn't include wikipedia-proper when I looked
yesterday, but this was suggested...

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> Why not make the uncompressed dump available as an Amazon Public
> Dataset? http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/02/25/25readwriteweb-amazon_exposes_1_terrabyte_of.html
>
> According to this, a new project by Amazon that makes a terabyte of public
> data available includes a full dump of Wikipedia. It also includes the
> complete dbpedia - so it seems like there are likely to be lots of
> duplicates. Given the other information it says it includes (the whole human
> genome, all other publicly available DNA sequences, census data, etc.) I'm
> not sure how it all fits in a single terabyte.  Interesting concept, though.
> I wonder how old the dump is, since they've been unavailable for some time?
>
> Nathan
>
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