On 30/01/07, Webmaster <webmaster(a)tiosam.com> wrote:
Where can we find them?
Thanks
http://download.wikimedia.org
In general, we discourage people remote loading content from our
sites, in part because it causes extra load on our servers which
hasn't come from one of our direct users, and in part because a vast
number of such sites end up violating one or more of the terms of the
content licence, usually the attribution side of things.
We provide regular database dumps to make the information freely
available in a manner that is friendlier to our servers, and that is
usually easier to process and import - it's much more convenient for
both parties to import all the revision text at once, rather than
crawling for it.
Even a "periodic cache update" is not particularly acceptable, as it
implies a burst of load, such as the one Tim mentioned. We have the
logs, we know what goes on.
Rob Church