I just added this to the talk page I can certainly gather the names of some Australian researchers who would be interested in this. But the size would make it a better target for an RDSI node rather than AARNET. Researchers probably want more than just a mirrored dump; they would want it extracted and pre-processed in a number of ways for convenience in mining it in various ways. Most researchers who work with WIkipedia dumps have to do extensive preprocessing so the desire to do it once and share is definitely there. I am in conversation with an RDSI node and the size doesn't seem to faze them, but we would need folks to volunteer to help with preprocessing it.Kerry Raymond (talk) 20:59, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
So if you are an Australian researcher interested in getting this data set easily accessible to Australian researchers, please let me know. also please forward to any researcher friends you might have and ask them to contact me. I've previously supervised a phd student who used a 2007 dump (from memory) and I am aware of other projects at QUT that used Wikipedia dumps in one way or another. Kerry Sent from my iPad On 10/01/2013, at 2:51 PM, Leigh Blackall <[email protected]> wrote: > In what ways should we speak up John? Letters to AARnet? > > On Jan 10, 2013 10:21 AM, "John Vandenberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <[email protected]> > Date: Jan 10, 2013 10:11 AM > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Dumps on AARNet > To: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" > <[email protected]> > Cc: > > If you're a researcher and you'd like the Wikimedia projects dumps to be on > AARNet, looks like you need to speak up. > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps&curid=316421&diff=5001005&oldid=5000757&rcid=3821246> > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
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