On 19 February 2010 14:54, Jamie Morken <jmor...@shaw.ca> 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 Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l