<what James said> The dumps server was never meant to become a permanent open data repository, but it started being used as an ad-hoc solution to host all sort of datasets published by WMF on top of the actual XML dumps: that's the problem we're trying to fix.
Regardless of where the data is physically hosted, your go-to point to discover WMF datasets from now on is the DataHub. Think of it as a data registry: the registry is all you need to know in order to find where the data is hosted and to extract the appropriate metadata/documentation. HTH Dario On Oct 22, 2012, at 5:06 PM, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 October 2012 16:03, Hydriz Wikipedia <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have long been wanting to say this, but is it possible for the team behind >> compiling such datasets to put future (and if possible, current) datasets >> into dumps.wikimedia.org so that it is easier for everyone to find stuff and >> not be all over the place? Thanks for that! > > Many one-off and regular datasets, from query results to data dumps > and similar, are now indexed[0] on The Data Hub (formerly CKAN) run by > the Open Knowledge Foundation for precisely this reason - so that data > researchers can easily find data about Wikimedia, and see when it's > updated. > > [0] - http://thedatahub.org/en/group/wikimedia > > J. > -- > James D. Forrester > [email protected] > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal > capacity) > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
