[Wikimedia-l] XOWA has released a complete copy of 2013-11-04 English Wikipedia with images -- Help wanted!

Tue Nov 26 06:46:07 UTC 2013

For anyone interested, I've uploaded en.wikiquote.org,
en.wiktionary.org, en.wikivoyage.org and species.wikimedia.org to my
google drive. I list links below, but you can also refer to
http://xowa.sourceforge.net/image_dbs.html

I've also added a torrent for downloading the en.wikipedia.org wiki
directly (as opposed to building it). The link is
http://xowa.sourceforge.net/torrent/wiki/en.wikipedia.org/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_wiki_complete.torrent

Hope this is useful....

     265 MB   en.wikiquote.org
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9cb52zjL2rIYUEyZ3NpMGlMQ00/edit?usp=sharing
    382 MB   en.wiktionary.org
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9cb52zjL2rIWVlQRzBaSWV3Vnc/edit?usp=sharing
    804 MB   species.wikimedia.org
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9cb52zjL2rIcGtQbHoweU4teHM/edit?usp=sharing
    1316 MB   en.wikivoyage.org
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9cb52zjL2rIcnFqb2k3U3lEbzA/edit?usp=sharing

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:10 AM, gnosygnu <gnosygnu at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Thanks for the feedback!
>
>> but could you make a list of torrent somewhere on Meta?
>
> Good idea. I've made a basic page now at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/XOWA. It uses much of
> the material from the earlier email. I'll add more later, and try to
> find a suitable place to link it into the
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/ section.
>
>> Are there torrent files for all projects (Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.)?
>
> The files are for en.wikipedia.org articles only.[1] I also have image
> thumbnail databases for en.wiktionary.org, en.wikiquote.org, and
> species.wikimedia.org. I'm waiting on a reply from archive.org to see
> if I can upload them as well. If I don't hear from them by the end of
> today, I'll upload them to my google drive, and forward the links.
>
> I'm working on en.wikisource.org, but it may not be ready for a few
> weeks (it has substantially more images than the others).
> en.wikiversity.org, en.wikibooks.org and en.wikinews.org are queued
> for later (in several weeks)
>
>> Because IA search really sucks
>
> Sorry. What is "IA search"?
>
> ----
>
> Finally, I realized I omitted a torrent #1 from the list below:
>
> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_00/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_01_archive.torrent
>
> ----
>
> [1]: Specifically, all main namespace articles (4.4 million) in the
> 2013-11-04 English Wikipedia dump as providede here:
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20131104/enwiki-20131104-pages-articles.xml.bz2
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Yann Forget <yannfo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Good work, but could you make a list of torrent somewhere on Meta? Are
>> there torrent files for all projects (Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.)?
>> Because IA search really sucks. Thanks, Yann
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/11/25 gnosygnu <gnosygnu at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi. I am the developer for XOWA -- a free, open-source offline
>>> Wikipedia app. XOWA allows a user to have their own copy of a wiki on
>>> their hard-drive -- without any internet connection. It works with the
>>> latest versions of over 660 database dumps [1], including wikis like
>>> English Wikipedia, French Wiktionary, German Wikisource, Wikidata,
>>> Wikimedia Commons, etc.. If you have a moment, you can download the
>>> app and set up Simple Wikipedia in less than 5 minutes.
>>>
>>> I just finished generating a full set of thumbnail images for English
>>> Wikipedia. This now makes it possible to have one's own complete
>>> offline copy of English Wikipedia as of 2013-11-04. The total size of
>>> these image databases are quite large (75 GB), but archive.org was
>>> kind enough to host them[2].
>>>
>>> I've emailed offline-l, but I am emailing this group because I'd like
>>> to reach as wide an audience as possible. In particular, these files
>>> will also be distributed by torrent[3], and I'd like to attract as
>>> many seeders as possible, especially as torrents should relieve any
>>> burden on archive.org's download servers. In addition, future wikis
>>> will be distributed by torrent, so more seeders now will facilitate
>>> distribution then. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could assist with
>>> seeding these files, or forward this news to others who may help seed
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for your time and support.
>>>
>>> [1]: See http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html for a full list.
>>>
>>> [2]: The download links are:
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_00
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_01
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_02
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_03
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_04
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_05
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_06
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_07
>>> http://archive.org/details/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_08
>>>
>>> [3]: The torrent links are:
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_00/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_00_archive.torrent
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_02/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_02_archive.torrent
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_03/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_03_archive.torrent
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_04/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_04_archive.torrent
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_05/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_05_archive.torrent
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_06/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_06_archive.torrent
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_07/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_07_archive.torrent
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/download/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_08/Xowa_enwiki_2013-11-04_images_complete_08_archive.torrent
>>>
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