Re:Wikimedia Foundation spending
by nullc on Sunday May 07, 2017 @07:27PM
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Go click through those links. Most of them are hardly maintained. E.g. last static HTML dump was in 2008. Current enwiki raw data dump is in progress and reads:
There are real logistical challenges in making these dumps and making them _useful_. For all Wikimedia's spending, they have not invested sufficiently in this area.
"2017-05-07 23:24:34: enwiki (ID 13918) 103 pages (0.0|1.2/sec all|curr), 921000 revs (14.4|11.4/sec all|curr), 100.0%|100.0% prefetched (all|curr), ETA 2019-01-23 15:17:29 [max 779130995]"
There are real logistical challenges in making these dumps and making them _useful_. For all Wikimedia's spending, they have not invested sufficiently in this area.