Thanks for the update! It's good to hear that there are still plans
for future image dumps.
One other question: Has there been any plans for incremental tarball
dumps? English Wikipedia was 2.2+ TB and it took me 14+ days to
download everything.
If you need a volunteer to write a utility to do the diffs, I could
give it a try.
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Kevin Day <kevin(a)your.org> wrote:
On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:57 PM, gnosygnu <gnosygnu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone.
I'm wondering if there's any update on the image dumps from
http://ftpmirror.your.org/. They were being generated on a somewhat
monthly basis from April 2012 - December 2012. The last complete set
was in December 2012 [1]. I believe there was a January 2013 post [2]
that indicated there was an issue at the hosting web site. Was there
an outcome, or is the situation still in progress?
The image dumps were incredibly useful (though also extremely large).
I can understand if monthly updates were too much, but I'm hoping they
will be available again -- perhaps on a quarterly / semi-annual basis?
[1]
http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20121201/
[2]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2013-January/000665.html
We've got our hardware back up, but during our outage the Wikimedia folks did a
datacenter move. The source where we were grabbing all the images from isn't running
right now, so there's no new image data to build new tarballs from. As soon as the
Wikimedia people get their image set available, I believe Ariel's plan is to get the
tarballs building again.
-- Kevin
Your.Org