Download the Entire Wikimedia Database

Re:Download the Entire Wikimedia Database by ris on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:37PM (#26371569)

Genuine question: why is bittorrent not being used for this?

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Re:Download the Entire Wikimedia Database by bawolff on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:25PM (#26371876)

I imagine because wikimedia has lots of bandwidth (once your website gets to be a certain size, bandwidth gets sold very differently), new versions come out regularly, and there is a relatively small number of people who want every single one of these and keep them around to seed.

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Re:Download the Entire Wikimedia Database by 91aintprime on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:03PM (#26377506)

It would be interesting intermittent releases supplemented with diffs

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Re:Download the Entire Wikimedia Database by bradleybuda on Saturday March 06, 2021 @08:08PM (#26372131)

Because they wanted it to be easy for people to get?

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Re:Download the Entire Wikimedia Database by Darthkoax on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:57AM (#26374107)

It is available as a torrent

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