On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Scanlon <[email protected]> wrote: > Two separate sites indicate potential sources of torrents for *.tar.gz > downloads of the en wikipedia database material : > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database and > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps#What_about_bittorrent.3F > (so far). > > Is it possible for anyone to indicate more comprehensive lists of > torrents/trackers than these? Are there any plans for all the > database download files to be available in this way (I imagine that > there would also be some PDF manual which would go along with these to > indicate offline viewing, and potentially more info than this). > J > > > On 4/15/09, Petr Kadlec <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/4/14 Platonides <[email protected]>: >>> IMHO the benefits of separated files are similar to the disadvantages. A >>> side side benefit if it would be that hashes would be splitted, too. If >>> you were unlucky, knowing that 'something' (perhaps just a bit) on the >>> 150GB you downloaded is wrong, is not that helpful. >>> So having hashes for file sections on the big ones, even if not >>> 'standard' would be an improvement. >> >> For that, something like Parchive would probably be better… >> >> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
I seem to remember there being a discussion about the torrenting issue before. In short: there's never been any official torrents, and the unofficial ones never got really popular. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
