Ahh ok. Anyone who wants to do processing on the full history (and there are a lot of these people who exist!) by definition *has* to be willing to throw some money at it. It simply doesn't fit on commercial drives. In fact, it would hardly fit on either of the two raid clusters I have access to. Making it available on Amazon means that, for a fair market rate, you don't have to download or uncompress the data. You can just start your data crunching. I can only speak for academics but there is generally funding available for Amazon EC2 etc... for specific projects. Professors are even known to pay for a fixed amount of processing for ambitious student projects, and these kinds of earmarks are easily fit into grants.
The claim that there is no demand for having it on amazon is some kind of fallacy that I don't know the name for. Its never been available on Amazon, how could there be demand? Heck, it hasn't been available for several years in the first place so how could there be a demand for it? People *just want the data*. Many people would be willing to pay a fee. Thus, for an extremely reasonable price they can now create a new amazon disk image and download it to their own raid cluster if they want. The foundation doesn't have to foot the bill. Or they can find funding for their specific project, or whatever. I have a rare copy of the last available full text dump. Perhaps I should initiate the process myself. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > 2009/2/25 Brian <[email protected]>: > > What has led you to believe there is no demand for a full dump of the > > english wikipedia? > > He didn't say there was no demand, he said there was no demand for > having it on Amazon. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
