On 01/07/2010 01:40 AM, Jamie Morken wrote: > 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. [...] >
Is the bandwidth used really a big problem? Bandwidth is pretty cheap these days, and given Wikipedia's total draw, I suspect the occasional dump download isn't much of a problem. Bittorrent's real strength is when a lot of people want to download the same thing at once. E.g., when a new Ubuntu release comes out. Since Bittorrent requires all downloaders to be uploaders, it turns the flood of users into a benefit. But unless somebody has stats otherwise, I'd guess that isn't the problem here. William _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
