well I've already started the scripts.
I would be interested in mirroring this images so people from the community who need
access to them have multiple choices for download -- and thus remove some of the burden
from Wikipedia.
What is the process for this (other than sending out an email) ? How receptive would
wikipedia be to something like that?
Thanks.
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:24:12 AM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] images torrent
Anthony wrote:
On 10/26/07, Yousef Ourabi
<yourabi(a)zero-analog.com> wrote:
What I don't understand is how this fits in
with the "no-crawler"
policy?
What "no-crawler" policy?
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[[Wikipedia:Database download#Please do not use a web crawler]]
--Darkwind
Wikix downloads images in a non-intrusive manner, in fact, its no more
intrusive than your average workstation browsing the site. This was by
design. I intentionally make the tool slow in order to avoid any impacts
on the site.
Given google's high rankings of Wikipedia pages, and the relationship with
ask.com and others, it obvious that massive web crawling of the site is
permitted by these search engines and in fact is encouraged.
Needless to say, wikix is nowhere near as intense as these other
applications. Provided it is not being used in a malicious manner, it
does not appear to impinge on this policy. Esspecially since Wikimedia
states at
download.wikimedia.org image tarballs will be supported at some
point.
Jeff
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