[Foundation-l] dumps

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 14:31:09 UTC 2009


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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