[Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 17:36:59 UTC 2011


On 06/28/2011 07:21 PM, emijrp wrote:
> @Milos: Instead of spliting image dump using the first letter of filenames,
> I thought about spliting using the upload date (YYYY-MM-DD). So, first
> chunks (2005-01-01) will be tiny, and recent ones of several GB (a single
> day).

That would be better, indeed! And you could create a wiki page where
people like myself would coordinate backup: we should cover the backup
once, then we could create more. For example, I can cover every Nth day
in month.




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