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Re:Full-history English Wikipedia dump produced: 5.6TB uncom... by blhack on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @12:23PM (#1265307)
That's because, despite what the 14 year olds on digg and reddit think, this isn't for you to download on your computer at your house. This is for archival or data-mining purposes.

I apologize for the minor insult at digg/reddit, I just remember a few years ago a link to the archive was posted on digg and everyone started downloading it...unnecessarily wasting wikipedia's limited and donated resources.

Re:Full-history English Wikipedia dump produced: 5.6TB uncom... by eru on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @12:52PM (#1265378)
If that's a problem, they could have put it up with bittorrent and throttled the bandwidth.
Re:Full-history English Wikipedia dump produced: 5.6TB uncom... by rmc on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @02:13PM (#1265637)
Yeah, this is exactly the sort of problem bittorrent was designed to handle