The first step is that we now have stuff in different places. There used to be a period of time a few years ago when there weren't *any* backups of Commons images. The next step is that somebody uses these dumps for a new creative project. Maybe someone working at a university with lots of bandwidth and lots of space...
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, 14/10/2013 14:18: > >> 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. > > > ...and that's why Hay said we need someone with a good idea. :) > Now it's easy to download the dataset (though it's not perfect), of course > this doesn't automatically make something cool happen with it. Except > replication of the data in multiple places, which is a good thing in itself. > > Nemo > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
