On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Tim Starling wrote:
Hi,
This is just a one-off thing at the moment, I haven't set up scripts to do it on a regular basis. So if I forget, please remind me. I've made a tarball of all the images from the English Wikipedia. See the bottom of:
http://download.wikimedia.org/
I had a quick discussion on IRC about the wording of the legal statement, it seems we can't really be sure that it's legal to do anything at all with them. It's an unsatisfactory situation, in my opinion, but there you have it. So the disclaimer says "use at your own risk".
Folks,
Just to keep you up to date, we have had great success with wikipedia installations in schools in South Africa.
I use these images for the install. I have downloaded more recent database snapshots to match with it, but for the most part if they cannot make a difference by reposting changes (which they cannot, as it is quite isolated in bandwidth-space) I just put a June snapshot (same date as the pictures) on.
I am excited by the potential of carrying snapshots and image diffs, probably selected by tar using the file dates. We (Wizzy Digital Courier) can carry these by UUCP - using dialup connections or physical carrying on a USB memory stick.
I split them up into 6 CDs, but found that one whole CD was the thumb/ directory , so you can skip that :-)
I would also love to preserve the 'newsy' feel of the front page. I had a suggestion fron Sj that I grab the front page conventionally and patch the URLs to point to a local wikipedia installation.
If you could put up a tarball of the whole archive again I can rsync it this way. Or - put up an rsync server ?
That would also handle deletion of orphaned images.
Cheers, Andy!
http://wizzy.org.za/ (not been updated in a while)
http://www.slug.org.za/ (Shuttleworth Foundation project putting Open Source into schools)