On 1/28/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not offhand aware of a
particularly shining example of a database-dump site, partly because
we tend to outstrip them quite fast (and because enwiki dumps were
iffy for quite a while, meaning most of them are long-stagnant)
I'm unfamiliar with the technical aspects of creating a database dump,
but is it the sort of thing that would be made better and faster by
throwing more computing resources at it?
I expect the answer to this question is "yes, but the Foundation is
$500,000 short, and those hypothetical servers went on the budget
chopping block on January 16th." :-( <rhetorical> When's the next
fundraiser? </rhetorical>
There are certainly some decent offline projects using
dumps, though,
in one form or another.
Like, say, Google Earth, which I expect would be ecstatic if it could
get more frequent dumps.