[Foundation-l] dumps

[Anthony]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Felipe Ortega <glimmer_phoenix at yahoo.es>wrote:

> Mmmm, sorry but then, I'm afraid that you missed some messages over the
> past year and a half on Wikitech-l, eagerly asking for the whole version of
> the English dump.
>

By demand I meant something a bit more than making demands.  I meant
something more along the lines of being willing to pay for it.

Anyway, I meant demand for the Amazon service when I said "there doesn't
seem to be any demand".  And no, there's no fallacy to the notion that
demand (a willingness to pay for something) can exist before supply.

I firmly believe that if the people who wanted the full history English
Wikipedia dump got together and set up a server to host it, it would be no
problem for them to get it.  If nothing else, if the foundation absolutely
refused to help, we could start with the latest valid dump and download the
rest article by article.  And keeping it up to date, once you have it, is an
even easier task.