On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > Accepted by whom? Co-lo a box on the Internet, and ask the Foundation for > permission to create the dump. A single thread downloading articles to a > single server isn't going to impact the project. It probably wouldn't even > be *noticed*.
It would also take even longer than the Wikimedia dumps. Say 500ms average to request a single revision. Multiply by 250,000,000 revisions. I get a figure of four years. You're going to need a lot more than a single thread to get a remotely recent dump. You probably couldn't even keep up with the rate of new revision creation with a single thread blocking on each HTTP request. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
