[Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

[Peter Coombe]

On 17 September 2011 15:06, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> On 17 September 2011 10:16, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> We need people to try the technical basics of a fork, i.e. taking an
>>>> en:wp dump, an images dump, ..
>>
>>> Is there an images dump?
>>
>> If there isn't, there should be.
>>
>> (I'm now trying to work out how to get the images without using up all
>> my bandwidth allowances ever.)
>
> It's easy enough to get a VPS with unlimited bandwidth. It's a few terabytes
> of data, though, depending on what you're talking about. Thumbnails, current
> images, older versions of images, deleted images, math renderings, etc. The
> sanest solution probably involves mailing a hard drive to someone and then
> having them mail it back.
>
> MZMcBride
>
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Of course if you're only thinking about forking Wikipedia, rather than
Commons, you can just use InstantCommons [1]. For English Wikipedia
you'd still have a lot of fair use to copy, but German and many other
languages wouldn't have that problem.

That said, there really ought to be an image dump available too.

Pete / the wub

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons