Re: [Foundation-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-29 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:12, Milos Rancic wrote: >> On 06/27/2011 01:07 PM, emijrp wrote: > >> If you create a way to sync images partially (let's say, the base >> letters inside of the directory structure), a couple of dozens of >> Wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Gervai
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:12, Milos Rancic wrote: > On 06/27/2011 01:07 PM, emijrp wrote: > If you create a way to sync images partially (let's say, the base > letters inside of the directory structure), a couple of dozens of > Wikimedians could create a couple of dozens of backups. I could host

Re: [Foundation-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-28 Thread Milos Rancic
On 06/27/2011 01:07 PM, emijrp wrote: > Yes, a distributed project would be probably the best solution, but it is > not easy to develop, unless you use a library like bittorrent, or similar > and you have many peers. Althought most of the people don't seed the files > long time, so sometimes is bet

Re: [Foundation-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-27 Thread emijrp
Hi Richard; Yes, a distributed project would be probably the best solution, but it is not easy to develop, unless you use a library like bittorrent, or similar and you have many peers. Althought most of the people don't seed the files long time, so sometimes is better to depend on a few committed