David A. Desrosiers wrote:
Speaking of images... I have the circa 2005 image.tar here for the English Wikipedia (about 70gb of images).
I've heard that if it were possible to tar up the latest images, it would be > 300gb. Is this accurate?
Yes.
Is there a better way to retrieve them without slamming the servers or putting more pressure on brion and friends to tar them up?
Not really.
A torrent file perhaps?
Nope. (But see the third-party attempts at it.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)