[Foundation-l] dumps

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
People have publicly said that they were willing to provide hardware or
developers to work on this. The thing is that such offers have not been
accepted.
Thanks,
         GerardM

2009/2/26 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>

> 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.
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