On 1/28/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@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.