On 17 September 2011 15:06, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > David Gerard wrote: >> On 17 September 2011 10:16, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> We need people to try the technical basics of a fork, i.e. taking an >>>> en:wp dump, an images dump, .. >> >>> Is there an images dump? >> >> If there isn't, there should be. >> >> (I'm now trying to work out how to get the images without using up all >> my bandwidth allowances ever.) > > It's easy enough to get a VPS with unlimited bandwidth. It's a few terabytes > of data, though, depending on what you're talking about. Thumbnails, current > images, older versions of images, deleted images, math renderings, etc. The > sanest solution probably involves mailing a hard drive to someone and then > having them mail it back. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
Of course if you're only thinking about forking Wikipedia, rather than Commons, you can just use InstantCommons [1]. For English Wikipedia you'd still have a lot of fair use to copy, but German and many other languages wouldn't have that problem. That said, there really ought to be an image dump available too. Pete / the wub [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
