What has led you to believe there is no demand for a full dump of the english wikipedia?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why not make the uncompressed dump available as an Amazon Public >> Dataset? http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ >> > > Which uncompressed dump? The full history English Wikipedia dump doesn't > exist, and there doesn't seem to be any demand for this anyway. > > You can already find DBPedia and FreeBase there. Its true that the >> uncompressed dump won't fit on a commercial drive (the largest is a >> 4-platter 500GB = 2TB drive). Cloud computing seems to be the most >> economically feasible alternative for all parties involved. >> > > "Cloud computing" might be a good alternative for some reusers, but if so > it'd be most economical to just host the cloud at the source, i.e. API/live > feed access open to everyone (for free or for a cost). For certain uses > there's the toolserver, but access to it is handed out with special > permission. For small amounts of traffic there's an API, and there's the > live feed which seems to be limited to major corporations with special > permission. > > The WMF hasn't put any real resources into this for the small time > commercial user (big players have the live feed and non-commercial users can > probably get toolserver access). Of course, there isn't all that much > demand either. If there was, a third party would have set it up by now (I'd > personally be willing to set up a pay-for-access toolserver and custom dump > service if I could get a commitment from one or more people for a couple > hundred a month in funding). > > "Typically the data sets in the repository are between 1 GB to 1 TB in >> size (based on the Amazon EBS volume limit), but we can work with you >> to host larger data sets as well. You must have the right to make the >> data freely available." > > > Yeah, if there was any demand for this, nothing's stopping someone from > setting it up on their own. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
