Please have someone at WMF coordinate this so that there aren't multiple requests made. In my opinion, it should preferably be made by a WMF employee.
Fill out the form at https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/aws-dataset-inquiry Tell them you want to create a public data set which is a snapshot of the English Wikipedia. We can coordinate any questions, and any implementation details, on a separate list. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:27 AM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd like to point out that the increasingly technical nature of this >> conversation probably belongs either on wikitech-l, or off-list, and that >> the strident nature of the comments is fast approaching inappropriate. > > Really? I think we're really getting somewhere. > > In fact, I think someone at WMF should contact Amazon and see if > they'll let us conduct the experiment for free, in exchange for us > creating the dump for them to host as a public data set > (http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/). > > In case you got lost in the technical details, the original post was > asking "Has anyone recently set up a full-external-duplicate of (for > instance) en.wp?" and suggesting that we should do this on a yearly > basis as a fire drill. > > My latest post was a concrete proposal for doing exactly that. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
