I have been using the dumps for few months and I think this kind of dumps is much better than a torrent. Yes bandwidth can be saved but I do not think the the cost of bandwidth is higher than the cost of maintaining the torrents.
If people are not hosting the files so the value of torrents is limited. I think regular mirroring is much better but it all depends on the willingness of people to host the files. bilal -- Verily, with hardship comes ease. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Jamie Morken wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a > > suggestion for wikipedia!! I think that the database dumps including > > the image files should be made available by a wikipedia bittorrent > > tracker so that people would be able to download the wikipedia backups > > including the images (which currently they can't do) and also so that > > wikipedia's bandwidth costs would be reduced. I think it is important > > that wikipedia can be downloaded for using it offline now and in the > > future for people. > > > > best regards, > > Jamie Morken > > Has been tried before (when they were smaller). > How many people do you think will have the necessary space and be > willing to download it? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
