This is great! Forwarding to wikimedia-l. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks who are interested in downloading tarballs of media for their > particular project can now do so from: > > http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/ > > In this directory you will see two subdirectories, "fulls" and "incrs". > The way this works is that once a month near the beginning of the month > we will produce a series of tarballs for each project of media uploaded > locally and media stored on commons. During the month, at least once > but hopefully twice, we will produce tarballs containing the files > uploaded locally or included from commons since the "full" tarball > date. > > No tarballs are being produced for commons itself, given that it's 14T > and there would be no separate locally uploaded/remotely uploaded lists. > Instead please use rsync to get those files directly from: > > rsync://ftpmirror.your.org/wikimedia-images/wikipedia/commons/ > > Also, please bear in mind that for author and license information you > should download the corresponding pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 file from > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ or your local mirror, and check the > corresponding File: description pages for your project or commons. > > And now it's time as usual for the Big Fat Disclaimer: > > We're still running these manually, it's possible that we won't make the > planned schedule for a given run or runs, network connectivity might be > unstable, etc. etc. Its also possible we will restructure the fulls so > that they take a lot less space and rely on three series of tarballs for > some projects. > > Thanks once again to your.org for donating the time, space and bandwidth > to make this possible. > > Ariel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
