[Toolserver-l] alternative way to get wikipedia dump while server is down

[River Tarnell]

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(Removing wikitech-l cc since I'm not subscribed there.)

Platonides:
> Roan Kattouw wrote:
> > 2010/11/26 Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com>:
> >> Somehow I think that publishing an entire dump violates the "do not
> >> publish significant parts of an article" rule.

> > Surely the toolserver admins could be asked to consider waiving that
> > in this case considering the public nature of the dumps and the
> > downtime situation with download.wm.o
 
> It's not that toolserver admins are excentric adding such rule, but an
> issue of WM-DE liability if such information is published.

This is correct -- the rule applies to any article text, even articles already 
available on Wikimedia foundation-run websites.  (Otherwise, there would be no 
point having the rule at all, since *all* text on the Toolserver is also 
available on the site itself.)

	- river.
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