On 19 February 2010 14:54, Jamie Morken <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hope you guys are planning on adding some way to download the wikimedia
> commons images too at some point
something that could be fun is git.
plus something like a "ticket system", where you ask for permissions
to download a tree inside git, and a temporal password is given to
you.
but you don't know, maybe serverside git is killing (CPU?), maybe
clientside is too complex for normal users, .. (?)
> What about www.wikipirate.org or wikitorrent.org for a list of wikimedia
> torrents? :)
> both are available!
nah,.. thats not cool enough, ... what about pir...@home?, a
screensaver that seed the torrent, with a tiny animation of pirates,
and sea, and the wiki logo :-),.. but you don't really want to be
associated to that!.
the idea to use Torrent to download snapshots of {insert large file
here} has ben discussed before on this mail list, It seems the
agrement is that is a bad idea for files that change often (you don't
want to have 10 different versions to download, this mean less
seeders), there are other problems (like ISP f*cking with the torrent
protocol, network overhead, capped downloads, etc. ) but that was
the main gripe against torrent.
--
--
ℱin del ℳensaje.
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
