2013/10/14 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > Hoi, > The basic problem with all these images at archive.org is the same > Commons has. How do you find that useful image. Commons is where you can > contribute but how about actually using and finding all the great material > that is hidden so well ? > Thanks, > GerardM > > Basically, you can't.
Internet Archive has this problem in several other topics, like its Wayback Machine, there is not search engine to search the billions grabbed websites by keyword of whatever. Internet Archive is a pile of hard disks and a time capsule with backups, and they try to do the best at showing the materials (media players, pdf viewers), but it is not always easy or possible. > > On 14 October 2013 13:15, Hay (Husky) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Brilliant! Now we just need someone with a good idea, a fast >> connection and huge hard drives to do cool stuff with all those images >> :) >> >> -- Hay >> >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Nicely done, you guys! >> > >> > Fabrice >> > >> > >> > On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> > >> > +1 kudos to the whole wikiteam! >> > >> > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Nice work Nemo! >> > >> > >> > >> > 2013/10/13 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> >> > >> > >> > WikiTeam has just finished archiving all Wikimedia Commons files up to >> > >> > 2012 (and some more) on the Internet Archive: >> > >> > https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons >> > >> > So far it's about 24 TB of archives and there are also a hundred >> torrents >> > >> > you can help seed, ranging from few hundred MB to over a TB, most >> around 400 >> > >> > GB. >> > >> > Everything is documented at >> > >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Media_tarballs >> > >> > >> > and if you want here are some ideas to help WikiTeam with coding: >> > >> > <https://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/issues/list>. >> > >> > >> > >> > Nemo >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > >> > "wikiteam-discuss" group. >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > >> > email to [email protected]. >> > >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Commons-l mailing list >> > >> > [email protected] >> > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 >> 4266 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Commons-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > >> > >> > _______________________________ >> > >> > Fabrice Florin >> > Product Manager >> > Wikimedia Foundation >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Commons-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Nicely done, you guys! >> > >> > Fabrice >> > >> > >> > On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> > >> > +1 kudos to the whole wikiteam! >> > >> > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Nice work Nemo! >> > >> > >> > >> > 2013/10/13 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> >> > >> > >> > WikiTeam has just finished archiving all Wikimedia Commons files up to >> > >> > 2012 (and some more) on the Internet Archive: >> > >> > https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons >> > >> > So far it's about 24 TB of archives and there are also a hundred >> torrents >> > >> > you can help seed, ranging from few hundred MB to over a TB, most >> around 400 >> > >> > GB. >> > >> > Everything is documented at >> > >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Media_tarballs >> > >> > >> > and if you want here are some ideas to help WikiTeam with coding: >> > >> > <https://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/issues/list>. >> > >> > >> > >> > Nemo >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > >> > "wikiteam-discuss" group. >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > >> > email to [email protected]. >> > >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Commons-l mailing list >> > >> > [email protected] >> > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 >> 4266 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Commons-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > >> > >> > _______________________________ >> > >> > Fabrice Florin >> > Product Manager >> > Wikimedia Foundation >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Commons-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> -- Hay Kranen >> Wikipedian in Residence >> Koninklijke Bibliotheek & Nationaal Archief (the Netherlands) >> http://www.twitter.com/hayify >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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