[Xmldatadumps-l] Xmldatadumps-l Digest, Vol 21, Issue 2 - proposals for categories of Commons

[burslem]

> Ariel:
>> Providing multiple terabyte sized files for download doesn't make any
kind of sense to me.
>> However, if we get concrete proposals for categories of Commons
images people really want
>> and would use, we can put those together. I think this has been said
before on wikitech-l if not here.

The Picture of the Year (POTY) collections are truly stunning! I am not
very interested in having terabytes of random snapshots on my computer,
instead I find smaller collections of "best of the best" much more suiting
for the public. This way, it will be accessible to those with smaller
amounts of diskspace and they'll be equally impressed.

I doubt there are many people interested in the image tarballs at all,
they're just going for the principle of accessibility. Presumably wikipedia
has plenty of back-up capabilities and there are enough gurus doing
everything to prevent possible data loss. Offering public back-ups has no
additional value in this perspective. Most of us probably use the wikipedia
XML's for offline usage or research. I have not yet come across image
research projects requiring tens of terabytes of images to be successful!

I say, if the POTY downloads are popular according to statistics, why not
compile a couple more years? The thing I'm talking about is hosted at
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/poty/ .
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